Finance Business Partner

Job content

Finance Business Partner

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: The Home Office - Digital Data and Technology

Location: Nationwide - Hybrid

(Inside IR35)

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems: Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

As a Finance Business Partner your main responsibilities would be:

The role of the Finance Business Partner will be to effectively lead, manage and resource the finance team, to ensure that a proper set of accounts is kept and an accurate record of all transactions taking place in accordance with proper accounting and statutory requirements, including the production of year end accounts

Role description:

· The post will be a new role to bolster the PPPT Finance Team to meet the growing demand and complexity of support required across the PPPT portfolio. Specifically, this post is being introduced to provide dedicated support to the National Law Enforcement Data Portfolio (NLEDP) at grade 7 level; The NLEDP contains three major programmes that are responsible for the sustainment, change and transformation of key pieces of critical national infrastructure for policing and wider law enforcement. These are the Police National Database (PND), the Police National Computer (PNC), and the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS).

· This portfolio will be operating in a highly complex stakeholder environment where the federated nature of policing provides local autonomy that impacts on the adoption of new or replacement systems.

· The job holder will provide Finance support National Law Enforcement Data Portfolio, contributing to business decision-making and financial control within the authorised investment spend. Taking responsibility for the delivery of excellent customer service including commercial support (business case, cost modelling, etc.) and related Budgeting and Reporting.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

· Finance Business Partnering

· Program Finance experience

· Decision making

· Team Management

Essential Requirements

· Ability to demonstrate a strong financial background working as a Finance Business Partner at a portfolio/programme level.

· Experience and ability to demonstrate wide knowledge of public sector finance, including treasury guidance and ideally within the Home Office

· SC/CTC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role; as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks

Desirable Requirements

· Qualified accountant CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA preferred

· Active SC/CTC Clearance

If this Finance Business Partnerrole sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with one of our PSR team now.

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: £600.00-£650.00 per day

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application deadline: 25/04/2022
Reference ID: PSR0028744
Expected start date: 02/05/2022