Finance Business Partner

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us. We offer a great work life balance. You have the opportunity to work at any of our brand-new Regional Centres and to also work remotely. Contracts vary in length dependent upon the project with the possibility to extend.

Your time spent with us short or long term will be invaluable - your skills and expertise are needed to deliver the largest digital and transformation projects in Government. There really couldn’t be a better time to join HMRC for your new contract opportunity!

HMRC’s Digital, Data and Technology function (otherwise known as Chief Digital and Information Officer group or ‘CDIO’) is seeking an exceptional Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic Financial Management Division. With over 3,500 people, CDIO Group are a key part of ensuring HMRC has the systems and technology to run and deliver its services to millions of citizens.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, motivated, and ambitious individual to help drive value from our financial data. You will use your strong influencing, communicating and management accounting knowledge to generate insightful information and advice that will inform strategic decision-making by senior leaders

Person Specification

• Providing specialist financial advice engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
• Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance, and delivery plans.
• Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Change Portfolio Group and HMRC Change Delivery.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development, and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
• Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making.
• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
• Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
• Driving cultural change to improve CDIO Finance leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
• Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance, and financial capability.
• Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive effective change.

Essential Criteria

• CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
• Excellent IT/Excel and presentation skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.