Senior Finance Business Partner - E&T / CR (Internal Applicants Only)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Finance Business Partner to support both Environment and Transport Services and Corporate Resources departments., As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in developing and improving strategic financial insight, driving performance improvement, and supporting both 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. Along with ensuring that effective financial management and governance is in place, the post holder will take on a more formal deputising role for the Strategic Financial Manager. The main duties and responsibilities of the role include:

• Assisting with the provision of strategic advice and guidance to elected members, Chief Officers and DMT to support decision making, whilst challenging and influencing decision makers to ensure the best outcome is obtained for the Council.
• Supporting the creation and delivery of the Council's medium-term financial strategy and corporate transformation agenda ensuring opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery outcomes are identified, analysed and implemented.
• Ensuring financial management arrangements following change are appropriate and provide the best use of resources.
• Developing a full understanding of the department's business needs, priorities and risks to ensure financial issues are captured and mitigated; and support the Strategic Financial Manager in ensuring Managers have appropriate advice, knowledge and skills to discharge their financial responsibilities.
• Delivering accurate, timely and relevant financial information used by the department including financial reporting and analysis, financial planning and submissions to government or partner organisations.
• Developing effective working relationships with external partners/bodies including representing the Council's interests at meetings. Providing strategic advice and financial information at national, regional and local levels, and ensuring a consistent approach to delivering joint priorities.
• Supporting the development of management information and the related systems to improve the links between financial information, operational activity and outcomes.
• Ensuring the Council's financial management policies and procedures are communicated and implemented effectively within the department, including work with Corporate Finance to evolve policies to reflect changes in services and issues arising.
• Line managing, coaching and developing members of the finance business partner team and any other temporary or permanent staffing resource brought into the team.
  
  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., Hold a CCAB or equivalent qualification with relevant up to date membership
• Have a proven ability to:
Build and maintain effective working relationships that maximise co-operation across teams, services and organisational boundaries to achieve desired results. Work co-operatively 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 decision-making including ability to develop and articulate complex financial information to a range of stakeholders. Manage, develop and motivate staff, especially through periods of change. You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share and 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.

About Leicestershire County Council Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development. Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire. For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following: Nottingham City Council