Description PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS Organisation: Leicestershire County Council Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA Worker Category: Hybrid Worker Salary: £53,724 to £59,220 per annum (pro rata for part-time) Working Hours: 37 hours a week Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: 8th January 2025 Interview Date(s): 13th / 14th January 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 a Senior Finance Business Partner to support both Environment and Transport Services and Corporate Resources departments. About the Role 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. About You To apply for this post, you must: 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 our commitment to our values 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. 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 individual's 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 term-time working, part-time 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 Styles page on our career site. For more information or an informal discussion, please contact: Susan Baum. Strategic Financial Manager, Environment & Transport and Corporate Resources Departments Telephone: 01016 305 6931 Email: Susan.Baumleics.gov.uk 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 Apply section on our career site. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home. By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions .