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Location

Southampton

About The Job

Job summary: Have you got experience in a Finance Business Partner, or relevant financial management or financial strategy role? Do you have the skills to translate and align business and finance objectives, and to provide constructive challenge to influence strategy and enhance the quality of decision-making? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Job Description

MCA's Finance vision is to put finance at the heart of decision making to enable and protect delivery of MCA’s strategic goals. The Finance Business Partnering model is critical to this and requires Finance Business Partners to act in the following roles.

• Business Expert – to have a deep understanding of their business area and use their knowledge and expertise to add value.
• Influential Voice – provide the financial ‘voice’ of the business, using effective communication skills to translate and align the business and finance agendas, and to influence strategy and provide constructive challenge to enhance the quality of decision-making.
• Financial Advisor – provide the business with insight and recommendations to facilitate delivery of their strategy. Being the source of technical knowledge, strategic insight, commercial acumen and an understanding of business risk and opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the Executive Director and senior stakeholders within partnering business area, in particular developing trust and rapport, to influence and challenge decision making, ensuring that Finance is considered in strategic, commercial and operational decisions.
• Develop a good understanding of the business area, seeking opportunities to better understand the commercial and operational drivers with a focus on complex or high-risk issues.
• Provide strategic advice and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and, through this, contribute to the strategic direction of the business area.
• Present accurate and clearly communicated financial management information and analysis to Directorate Management Boards to ensure appropriate financial management.
• Provide recommendations and value adding insight to support decision making within the business area and to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work alongside Executive Director and senior stakeholders within partnering business area to ensure that credible financial plans are developed, and included within the Agency’s longer term financial planning, annual budgeting, monthly forecasting. Provide constructive challenge to ensure plans are realistic and achievable.
• Support the Director of Finance and Transformation, Chief Financial Officer and Accounting Officer in their roles as a member of the Executive Team and MCA Board, ensuring that the agency’s Financial Management Strategy and the related financial controls are operated effectively.

Essential Qualifications

Qualified in CCAB/CIMAA.

Required Experience

• Experience in a Finance Business Partner, or relevant financial management or financial strategy role
• Highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills

Additional Information

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week. Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 20 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements. The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your principal workplace or, when required for business reasons, visiting stakeholders and colleagues, or carrying out detached duty in another DfT or agency workplace. The chosen principal workplace will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to the designated place of work or contractual terms and conditions. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Behaviours

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

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