Finance Business Partner - London, United Kingdom - Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £37,759 - £46,251

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer

Senior Executive Officer

Band B
Applicants should be aware DCMS is going through an exercise to demerge its Band B grade which is currently a joint HEO/SEO banding. This vacancy is an SEO role, as determined by the Government Finance Career Framework.

Contract type:

Fixed term
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment:
2 Years
Business area:
DCMS
Finance
Type of role:
Corporate Finance
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
2Contents

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London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

Two Finance Business Partner roles are available in the Finance Business Partnering Team.

The Team is organised into three areas who support the Directors Generals (DGs) and their teams to effectively discharge their financial accountabilities.

This includes providing support and guidance to directors to enable effective financial management of their budgets including oversight of the arm's-length bodies where applicable.

Finance is high on the agenda in the department and we play a pivotal role in supporting and shaping the way the resources are allocated to deliver the department's strategic and operational priorities.

We are the 'go to' team for teams across the department, advising and providing robust challenge on the affordability and value for money of policy development and investment decisions, business planning and providing insight on budgetary performance against the delivery of our departmental objectives.

Finance Business Partners:

Strategy & Operations
In this role you will working closely with Director and Deputy Directors to support the Ceremonials and Major Projects directorates. Providing high quality advice and analysis on the high profile major strategic budgets required to run DCMS.

Heritage & Culture

In this role you will be providing high quality financial advice and analysis to colleagues on exciting policy areas across heritage, arts, libraries and cultural industries. You will also engage with and provide support to external finance teams at Historic England, Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.

Job description:

Requirements for both roles:

Provide high quality finance advice and analysis to stakeholders to support and enable good policy decisions whilst managing their budgets in line with agreed government finance rules. Provide advice and guidance on all financial matters as necessary, from accounting to budgeting and the government's Estimates processes.
Build and manage effective relationships with internal Budget Holders and / or Arm's Length Bodies Finance teams to to provide a trusted, single point of contact between Finance and the business and understand their business in order to support the delivery of departmental priorities for value for money.
Lead assurance activities and effective financial oversight of arm'slength bodies, including regular engagement at senior levels and attendance at Audit and Risk Committees.
Support Budget Holders through the annual (and multiyear) budget setting process for DCMS itself, including administration, programme, capital and depreciation budgets as relevant, and through inyear budget review exercises. This includes reviewing and quality assuring returns from Budget Holders to ensure that DCMS budgets are established on the basis of a complete and realistic assessment of business need and associated risks and pressures.
Deliver a customerfocussed service that balances policy priorities with the broader financial needs of the Department.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria:

Experience of providing financial advice on complex issues
Collaborative and able to work well with others
Highly numerate and literate
Able to work well under their own initiative (a selfstarter)
Solutionsorientated and able to complete work in a timely manner without prompting
Full CCAB or CIMA accountancy qualification or equivalent.

Desirable Skills:

Previous Business partnering experience
Working knowledge of Managing Public Money and central government accounting and budgeting rules
Intermediate or higher Excel skills

We are offering applicants to join a virtual information session on 12:00 PM 31/1/2024 hosted by the vacancy holder - Gayle Jordan-Warne.

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department.

It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please register your interest here and you will be sent an invitation.

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