Finance Business Partner

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicestershire LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: per annum (pro rata for parttime)

Working Hours:37 hours a week for 3 posts (although open to discussions around parttime working hours)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 16^th May 2025

Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 2^nd June 2025

Are you a confident communicator with excellent business partnering and financial analysis experience Do you think practically troubleshooting issues with sound logical solutions Do you thrive on a challenge and are driven by supporting the delivery of sustainable change that will make a real difference to Leicestershire residents If so then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit several Finance Business Partners to support:
Corporate Resources and Environment and Transport Services Departments;
Corporate Capital Programme;
Adults and Communities Department.

About the Role

As a Finance Business Partner you will play a pivotal role in providing financial advice developing and improving strategic financial insight driving performance improvement and supporting departments in the delivery of transformational change. This role offers the unique opportunity to influence key business decisions through collaborative working to ensure saving opportunities are optimised within a financially challenging environment.

The main duties and responsibility of the role include:

Provide strategic advice and guidance to the Senior Leadership team and elected members to support decision making whilst challenging and influencing decision makers to ensure the best outcome is obtained for the Council
Support the creation and delivery of the Councils mediumterm financial strategy and corporate transformation agenda ensuring opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery outcomes are identified analysed and implemented.
Gain sufficient understanding of the business needs and its operations to evaluate strategic implications of financial issues ensuring managers have appropriate advice knowledge and skills to discharge their financial responsibilities
Deliver accurate timely and relevant financial information used by the department including financial reporting and analysis financial planning and submissions to government or partner organisations.
Support the department in identifying analysing and implementing options for improving efficiency and/or service delivery outcomes. Ensuring the financial managements arrangements following the change are appropriate and provide best use of LCC resources.
Support the development of management information and the related systems to improve the links between financial information operational activity and outcomes: focusing on price and volume analysis unit costing and benchmarking
Ensuring the Councils financial management policies and procedures are communicated and implemented effectively within the department including working with Corporate Finance to evolve policies to reflect changes in services and in response to issues.

About You

To apply for this post you must:

• Hold a CCAB or equivalent qualification with relevant up to date membership (essential criteria)
  Have a proven ability to:
• Build and maintain effective relationships that maximise cooperation across teams services and organisational boundaries to achieve desired results.
• Work cooperatively across team service organisational and partnership boundaries to improve performance and resolve financial problems particularly efficiency with sound workable solutions.
• Interpret and use a range of financial information to inform decisions and manage risks whilst simultaneously recognising wider political and organisational priorities.
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of influence and persuasion and be able to promote own case.
• Gather information from external and internal sources to enhance problem solving and decisionmaking including ability to develop and articulate complex financial information to a range of stakeholders. Includes tailoring written and verbal communication to meet different and diverse needs whilst maintaining consistency of key messages.
• Act as finance lead providing financial support and advice from concept through to delivery on projects programmes and/or capital schemes spanning one or more years.

Although working in a Local Government environment would be beneficial it is not essential for this position and candidates who have worked in a similar role in a large complex organisation will be looked on favourably.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Susan Baum Strategic Finance Manager Corporate Resources and Environment & Transport Departments

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Gurpreet Kooner Strategic Finance Manager Adults & Communities Public Health and Chief Executives Department

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

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