Senior Finance Business Partner

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you a finance professional with experience of business partnering and forecasting?

Would you embrace the opportunity to support key decisions on some of the government's biggest projects and key transport policies by providing added-value insight and best-in-class reporting?

If so, we are looking for an experienced finance professional to join our team, and we would love to hear from you!

The Department for Transport has a wide and varied agenda ranging from delivering large road and rail infrastructure projects through to improving bus services, working with the aviation and maritime sectors and reducing environmental impacts and decarbonising transport.

As Senior Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for providing professional financial leadership and advice to Directors General and Directors, leading in the areas of financial planning, financial management and improved decision-making. You will also be responsible for improving the accuracy of forecasting, and to develop and implement action plans to achieve this.

Within this challenging and varied role, you will engage with a range of senior stakeholders and will build positive working relationships. This will include coordinating the completion of monthly Group performance reports and assisting in the presentation of reports in Group Board meetings and Directorate team meetings. You will encounter occasions where you will need to appropriately challenge and influence colleagues, as well as keep pace with technical accounting issues and the changing priorities of delivery partners.