45010 - Senior Finance Business Partner Digital and Technology

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Overview

The Ministry of Justice sits at the heart of public service delivery and the government’s wider social reform agenda, working to protect and advance the principles of justice. The department has been at the forefront of the Government’s wider efficiency agenda making a finance roles an exciting and challenging opportunity.

The Ministry’s functional leadership model for finance brings together specialists into a single, unified team across the Department with the vision of putting finance at the heart of decision making. The Finance Business Partnering (FBP) teams supports budget holders across the department, assisting them in delivering their financial management responsibilities, ensuring corporate controls and processes are followed and supporting the business areas to have confidence in their financial position and to drive efficiency.

FBP teams work alongside the businesses they support, and have a close understanding of their business to enable them to help drive better outcomes from ensuring that finance is at the heart of decision making. The FBP role is to protect value, drive value and add value to the business.

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for managing the financial business partnering relationship with MoJ’s Digital and Technology directorate. This includes overseeing large Digital and Technology change programmes and interfacing with numerous stakeholders across the organisation. 

The successful candidate will use significant leadership, management, representational and influencing skills both within the organisation and with external stakeholders. This role has a major impact on supporting the achievement of MoJ objectives and is integral to the development of Digital and Technology’s business and organisational strategies.

The successful candidate will have overall accountability for their work area, operating with considerable freedom. Management guidance is likely to be infrequent and the post holder is expected to work autonomously. They will typically deal with high profile, often complex or contentious issues which have many dimensions across their business area and organisation wide.  This may involve solving poorly defined issues without precedent or where potential outcomes are unclear.  The role will use creative thinking to develop new approaches in solving problems.

All Senior Finance Business Partners are expected to contribute to the broader objectives of the finance function, seeking to work collaboratively with colleagues across the group.

Responsibilities

You will combine financial expertise and experience with a deep understanding of finance functions and the wider government context. In addition to leading and developing your team, you will provide expert financial support and advice to multidisciplinary projects, senior colleagues, and stakeholders both within and outside of Digital and Technology. You will show a consistent commitment to delivering value for money in all areas and may often work closely with other functions and external bodies. You may take a technical lead in complex areas such as developing and implementing financial controls, business planning, production of accounts and risk management. You will have well-developed networks and may have worked in other Civil Service or external environments where you will have gained additional commercial and strategic skills.

Civil Service Behaviours

The following Grade 6 Civil Service Behaviours are essential to this post and will be assessed upon application:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service

Please refer to the Civil Service Behaviours Framework, which can be found here, to complete this application: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf

Specific Experience, Ability and Technical Skills Required

Ability

• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and authority
• Excellent communication, networking and negotiating skills
• The ability to analyse and communicate complex financial information in a clear and understandable way
• Ability to work across multiple areas, bringing together expertise from a range of teams to drive valued outcomes

Experience

• A strong track record in team leadership and developing high performing teams
• Experience of providing professional finance and corporate services to senior stakeholders and influencing business decisions.
• Experience of building, maintaining and leveraging collaboration networks and partnerships
• Experience of communicating financial information to a non-financial audience 
• Strategic and commercial skills gained from working in, or together with, other specialist areas such as commercial, policy, IT, HR or delivery.

Technical

• A full accountancy qualification, broad experience of public sector finance and knowledge of ‘Managing Public Money’.

Professional Competencies / Requirements

A full accountancy qualification with a recognised professional body.

The Selection Process

To apply please complete the online application form. Applications will be sifted by a panel who will look at the Civil Service Behaviour framework and what is evidenced in your application. Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour, Leadership. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.

Applicants will be expected to demonstrate the essential role requirements within the application behaviour responses.

Candidates who are successful following the sift process will be invited to interview, where the behavioural elements and strengths will be tested further alongside other elements of the post. Further details will be provided to shortlisted candidates in advance of the interviews.

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 45010.