Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this Finance Business Partner role, you will combine financial expertise with strong influence to support budget holders and senior leaders. You will shape financial plans, provide strategic insight, and drive value-for-money outcomes within HMRC’s CDIO Strategic Services Division. You’ll engage with IT teams, challenge financial positions, and help steer complex delivery areas through data-driven advice. This is a chance to influence change, work cross-functionally, and contribute to large-scale public-sector finance initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible and Hybrid Working
• Hybrid working policy
• Leave allowance 25–30 days
• Civil Service Pension alpha contributions
• Family-friendly policies
• Coaching and personal development

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist financial advice to IT teams on planning, processes and budget setting
• Deliver clear, data-driven financial information with actionable recommendations
• Support development and implementation of credible financial plans aligned with HMRC strategy
• Attend and influence senior leadership boards, offering robust financial challenge
• Contribute to early-stage idea pipelines and business case development with financial insight
• Drive evidence-based decision-making across the business
• Coach and develop finance capability across teams
• Horizon scan to identify risks and propose viable financial solutions
• Oversee team members and cultivate leadership skills across groups
• Lead cultural change to enhance leadership, innovation, and financial discipline
• Collaborate with Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance teams to enable effective change

Key requirements

• CCAB fully qualified chartered accountant or equivalent UK professional body
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build stakeholder relationships
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into insights for decision making
• Excellent IT/Excel and written communication skills
• Experience of working in a large and complex organisation
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to support stakeholders
• Confident communicator capable of challenging senior leaders
• Ability to operate in a changing culture, think strategically and manage risk

• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• communication
• Excel
• data analytics tools
• ERP systems

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