Finance Business Partner - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £40,808
  • This role attracts an allowance of up to £3,000 depending on level of qualification

Job grade:


  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DVSA
  • Finance, Commercial & Assurance
    Type of role:
  • Accountancy
  • Corporate Finance
  • Finance
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 3Contents
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Location

  • Bristol, NewcastleuponTyne, Nottingham, SwanseaAbout the job

Job summary:

Do you have experience with providing financial advice and support?

Are you able to build strong relationships?

Do you have excellent communication skills?

If so, we'd love to hear from you


Job description:


Our Finance Business Partners understand the business and communicate financial data and other information clearly, provide valuable financial advice, support, strategic insight, challenge and business solutions.


You will need to build strong relationships to enable effective strategic financial management and use those relationships to influence decision making and facilitate constructive challenge.


Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Developing an understanding of the business, its stakeholders and deliverables and building relationships.
  • Translating, owning and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
  • Reviewing and providing input to business cases/ strategic documentation.
  • Providing adhoc analysis and presentations to drive and support business decisions, such as efficiency and cost reduction options, using all available data and analytics tools.

Person specification:

To thrive in this role, you will need to be able to evidence the following skills and experience:

  • Fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business, finance and other corporate services.
  • Can tailor their communication style to a range of audiences, including internal and external stakeholders.
  • Uses facts and evidence to aid negotiation and influencing.
  • Helps others to understand the interdependencies between business and finance.
  • Proactive and passionate, inspiring others to continuously improve.
  • Ability to "speak the language" of finance to business, and vice versa, acting as the critical translator between the two.


Please take note that DVSA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorships.


Additional Information


This role can be based in Swansea, Nottingham, Bristol, or Newcastle where your presence at this location will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you.

There will be occasional travel required with this role to other DVSA locations, including overnight stays.

We operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Our expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60% of your time at your base location. Visits to other DVSA sites or work locations count towards this.


About Us
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.


We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.


We're working hard to:

  • Make roads safer.
  • Improve services for our customers.
  • Make road transport greener and healthier.
  • Harness the potential of technology and data.
  • Grow and level up the economy.
We're committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams where everyone is valued. You can grow, develop and progress, and make a real difference to society.


To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace and making DVSA a great place to work visit our Careers website.


Qualifications:


  • Uptodate membership of one of the UK accounting bodies (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA or ICAEW) and either fully qualified, or part qualified with a commitment to complete the qualification

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

Benefits:


  • An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great worklife balance.
  • Exceptional pension with an employer contribution of an average of 27%.
  • Generous Annual Leave 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
  • 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King's birthday.
  • Latest IT and Tech devices.
  • A culture encouraging inclusion a
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