Finance Business Partner

Our Finance Business Partners understand the business and communicate financial data and other information clearly, provide valuable financial advice, support, strategic insight, challenge and business solutions.
You will need to build strong relationships to enable effective strategic financial management and use those relationships to influence decision making and facilitate constructive challenge.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
+ Developing an understanding of the business, its stakeholders and deliverables and building relationships.
+ Translating, owning and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
+ Reviewing and providing input to business cases/ strategic documentation.
+ Providing ad-hoc analysis and presentations to drive and support business decisions, such as efficiency and cost reduction options, using all available data and analytics tools.
For further information about the role and responsibilities please see the Candidate Pack attached., This role can be based in Swansea, Nottingham, Bristol, or Newcastle where your presence at this location will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you.
There will be occasional travel required with this role to other DVSA locations, including overnight stays.
We operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Our expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60% of your time at your base location. Visits to other DVSA sites or work locations count towards this.
Whilst we welcome applications from candidates looking for part-time work, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to work a minimum of 20 hours per week.
About Us
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.
We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
+ Make roads safer.
+ Improve services for our customers.
+ Make road transport greener and healthier.
+ Harness the potential of technology and data.
+ Grow and level up the economy.
We’re committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams where everyone is valued. You can grow, develop and progress, and make a real difference to society.
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice and welcome and encourage applications from everyone, such as ethnic minorities, women, disabled people and those who identify as LGBT+.
To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace and making DVSA a great place to work
visit our Careers website., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Managing a Quality Service
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Communicating and Influencing
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
+ Managing a Quality Service
+ Seeing the Big Picture, o Align activities to contribute to wider organisational priorities.
o Remain alert to emerging issues and trends which might impact your work area.
We may conduct an initial sift on Seeing the Big Picture as a lead behaviour.
2. A tailored CV that demonstrates key achievements and suitability to the role and the essential criteria.
3. Personal Statement.
For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:
+ Experience of fostering a culture of knowledge and collaboration between business, finance and other corporate services.
+ Experience of using facts and evidence to aid negotiation and influencing.
Your Personal Statement will be limited to a maximum of 500 words.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ An interview and presentation.
The sift is due to take place week commencing 10th June 2024.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held from 26th June 2024.
This interview will be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
We will try to meet the dates we've set out in the advert but there may be occasions when these dates will change. We will give you plenty of notice of any important dates.
If you would like to find out more about what it’s like to work for DVSA and how to apply, we will be holding virtual sessions to find out more. Please click here to secure your place at one of our upcoming events.
The Department for Transport recruits using Success Profiles. For each role, we consider what you need to demonstrate to be successful.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
You can read more about Success Profiles here.
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Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., 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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Do you have experience with providing financial advice and support?
Are you able to build strong relationships?
Do you have excellent communication skills?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!, + Fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business, finance and other corporate services.
+ Can tailor their communication style to a range of audiences, including internal and external stakeholders.
+ Uses facts and evidence to aid negotiation and influencing.
+ Helps others to understand the interdependencies between business and finance.
+ Proactive and passionate, inspiring others to continuously improve.
+ Ability to "speak the language" of finance to business, and vice versa, acting as the critical translator between the two.
Please take note that DVSA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorships., Up-to-date membership of one of the UK accounting bodies (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA or ICAEW) and either fully qualified, or part qualified with a commitment to complete the qualification., 1. A written behavioural example of 250 words per behaviour, that provides evidence of you having demonstrated the following behaviours and indicators:
+ MANAGING A QUALITY SERVICE
o Develop, implement, maintain and review systems and services to ensure delivery of professional excellence.
o Successfully deliver high quality outcomes that meet the customers’ needs and gives value for money.
+ SEEING THE BIG PICTURE
o Understand the strategic drivers for your area of work.

+ An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
+ Exceptional pension with an employer contribution of an average of 27%.
+ Generous Annual Leave - 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
+ 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
+ Latest IT and Tech devices.
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
+ Excellent learning and development tailored to your role including paid apprenticeships up to Masters level.
+ Wide range of discounts schemes on high street names.
+ Employee assistance program for health and well-being.
+ Cycle to work scheme and Gym membership offers.