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Making Tax Digital - Finance Business Partner

Employer
HM Revenue & Customs
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Sep 25, 2020

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Job Role
Tax Compliance
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

You will be joining a lively team led by the Senior Finance Business Partner (SFBP) and one other Finance Business Partner (FBP) in a dynamic and exciting environment with a remit to provide a professional finance service to support the running of the programme. Working with the programme, Senior Leadership Team and other partners you will ensure sound financial management, planning and budgetary control of the programme's spending.

Your role as Finance Business Partner is equally about leadership, relationship and information management as it is financial technical skills. You add value by accessing expertise and trusted data quickly and readily and placing it in the context of the programme's plans. By combining the professional technical knowledge with an understanding of the programme's strategic goals, future plans and immediate performance and financial issues and risks, you would greatly improve the quality of decision making.

Responsibilities
Your main duties and responsibilities are:

Providing cohesive and effective leadership of a respected finance function.
Building and maintaining a deep understanding of the programme, drivers of spend, the plans, priorities and funding requirements.
Helping to develop the programme business case for each new spending review period and financial plans to secure funding and delegated authority.
Using historical information and technical expertise to provide innovative financial input to support investment decisions.
Ensuring business case plans are balanced effectively with resources and risk is embedded as an integral part.
Work flexibly with your team, ensuring an effective financial control regime and assuring the production of monthly and ad hoc reports which accurately reflect performance.
Helping to protect the programme by making sure decisions are within delegated authorities.
Co-ordinating delivery of functional finance activity so the needs of the programme and wider business are met and acting as an entry point for the programme to access specialist finance support.
Act as a financial coach to the Business - improving financial and commercial capability, driving a VFM culture, and championing continuous improvement and risk management.
Providing commercial insight i.e. use understanding of the cost-drivers within the programme and use this to drive value for money, deploying an understanding of commercial and contractual practice.
Working in partnership with the other key partners e.g. CDIO, Commercial and HR to help delivers plans.
Working in collaboration with HMRC Business Group to monitor and review their programme related cost requirements.
Providing assurance of HMRC Business Group actual spend and forecast cost requirements.
Collaborating with key partners to ensure MTD delivery plans are accurately impacted within HMRC Business Group resource plans.

Essential criteria:

A CCAB qualified accountant or equivalent or be willing to work towards a finance qualification.
Proven experience of leading in a financial management role preferably within project/programme.
Be comfortable working with multiple partners with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrable evidence of working collaboratively and building positive relationships across business groups within a complex and politically critical environment.
Evidence of the ability to quickly grasp issues around a range of complex and exciting products and services and to work effectively and influence around this with key partners.
Customer facing business partnering experience.
Senior stakeholder engagement and ability to influence decision making.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
  • Leadership
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Delivering at Pace


Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension

If you are applying for a role in an office within a regional center location or a transitional or specialist site, then the following may apply: Daily Travel Assistance will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC employee and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the department's Daily Travel Assistance guidance.

Please also find attached 'Your little extras booklet' for further information.

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

To apply, the candidate should provide a CV and 500 word statement of suitability detailing their experience and skills, aligning to the roles and responsibilities of the post taking into consideration the essential criteria required.

Candidates will be assessed against both the CV and statement of suitability at the sift stage.

If invited to interview, a presentation will be requested on the role of the Finance Business Partner, providing the candidate with an opportunity to demonstrate key skills for business partnering through their assessment and communication of the presentation on the role of a FBP.

Candidates will also be assessed on behaviours and strengths at interview.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Security Update
If you are successful and transferring from another Government Department, we will carry out a check of your identity, nationality, and immigration status (including the right to work in the UK) and a criminal record check before confirming your appointment.

Successful candidates must pass a Disclosure and Barring Security Check. Please note that HMRC have an exemption under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, which enables us to make enquiries about both unspent and spent convictions.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstance some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

HMRC transformation
HM Revenue and Customs is currently going through an exciting ten-year transformation programme to create a tax authority fit for the future. As part of this, we are committed to providing high-quality jobs and giving employees a great place to work, whichever location you work from.

HM Revenue and Customs has made significant progress with its plans to locate in 13 large, modern, flexible offices, equipped with high-speed digital infrastructure supporting improved customer service and compliance activity. These collaborative workspaces will enable smarter working and great training and development facilities, allowing for the sharing of expertise, local training, promotion, and provide great ongoing career development opportunities.

These offices will be located in central locations in the following towns and cities close to accessible transport links: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon and Stratford. Our Regional Centres in Croydon, Bristol and Belfast are already operational.

In addition, there will also be a small number of specialist sites where the work cannot be done anywhere else, in Gartcosh (near Glasgow), Telford, Ipswich, Worthing and Dover, as well as our headquarters in central London. What's more, our Welsh language service has people located in Porthmadog, as well as Cardiff.

We are letting you know about our future plans because if you are recruited into an office that is not one of these locations, you will be expected, subject to HM Revenue and Customs applicable policies, to move to one of these locations in the future. In some cases, this will be via one of our nine transitional sites.

If you are not a current civil servant, you will not be eligible for financial assistance for your move to the regional centre or a transitional or specialist site.

If you are a current HM Revenue and Customs employee and you joined us through an advert that was advertised on or after 11/01/2017, you will not be eligible for financial assistance for your move to a regional centre, a transitional site or a specialist one. This is in line with the terms of your original appointment to HM Revenue and Customs.

For more information please contact the vacancy holder.

Terms and Conditions
Some of HMRC Terms and Conditions of employment changed on 1st May 2013, these will apply to people who are new recruits to HMRC or who take a new job in HMRC on promotion. The document attached to this advertisement provides more information on the changes we made, please note this is not a full list of HMRC's terms and conditions. If you need to discuss how these changes might affect you, please contact the vacancy holder. For further information on terms and conditions please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/about/recruitment#annual-leave

Pay
If you are currently working for an OGD and would like to consider the impact on your pay when joining HMRC, please see the attached document "Pay on Transfer from OGD" for further information.

HMRC is currently negotiating with departmental trade unions to modify its current pay structure, terms and conditions. Those terms are yet to be agreed but when implemented, we envisage that they will be backdated to 1 June 2020. The pay ranges, terms and conditions advertised will be altered by the new deal (subject to collective agreement) and will apply to candidates who are successful for the role.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Further Information
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement this will be tested as part of the selection process.

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to HMRC will mean you will no longer be able to carry on claiming childcare vouchers. You will however have access to the governments Tax Free Childcare scheme.

Reasonable adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Assistance required" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here .

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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