Finance Business Partner

In this Finance Business Partner role, you will provide financial oversight and analytical support to cross-government workstreams within the Public Safety Group. You will link financial data to deliverables, monitor performance against plans, and advise on financial strategy and governance for high-priority programmes. The role supports decision-making, benefits tracking, and financial reporting to enable efficient, value-for-money delivery of public safety initiatives. You will work with cross-functional teams to sustain delivery of critical programmes like ESN/ESMCP in a changing environment.

• Civil Service pension with employer contribution 28.97%
• In-year reward scheme
• 25 days annual leave (30 with service)
• Eight public holidays plus one privilege day

• Provide financial oversight and support to the portfolio
• Offer insight and analysis linking financial data to workstream deliverables
• Monitor workstream performance against schedule and financial plan
• Contribute to key decisions and reports through financial insight
• Act as a financial advisor on technical and operational accounting
• Produce monthly financial reports with costs and benefits for projects/workstreams
• Provide ad-hoc support for commercial relationships and options analysis
• Manage benefits identification, assessment, and tracking
• Support governance through risk & opportunities quantification and change control
• Asset management including balance sheet alignment with deliverables
• Produce the finance case in business cases and spending proposals
• Advise on regularity and propriety to protect the Accounting Officer
• Implement and maintain corporate financial controls and efficient workstream controls
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards (e.g. VAT, assets under construction)

• Experience in stakeholder and budget management across multiple funding streams
• Ability to provide specialist financial advice and commercial acumen
• Experience improving process compliance and reporting on control effectiveness
• Experience working in a fast-paced, changing environment with ability to plan and deliver through others
• Project/program finance business partnering experience

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
• Stakeholder management and collaborative working
• Organisational skills and staff management capability
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Project and programme finance business partnering
• Governance, risk, and opportunities management