Are you a fully CCAB qualified accountant who wants to work for HM Treasury's Finance function in a business partner role? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking to recruit two Finance Business Partners in our group finance team. This role would suit someone who has the ability to lead a challenging piece of work whilst handling a busy workload to deliver to deadlines and taking care of conflicting priorities. Experience of drafting and developing effective and sometimes technically complex reports explaining financial risks and issues to non-financial experts would be helpful in the role. As a key part of the role will be to support a management accounting service, previous experience of this would be beneficial. Being able to manage and develop staff and build relationships within a team is key. We are looking for a fully CCAB qualified accountant, and this will be necessary in order to be considered.

Benefits include:

•A civil-service pension, with high employer contributions.

•25 days annual leave, raising to 30 days after 5 years service

•Flexi-time working, with the option to take an additional 2 days off each month, providing you work enough hours to meet business need.

•A generous parental/adoption leave package.

•Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room

•Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving

•Retail discounts and cashback site

•A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes

•A range of active staff networks, based around interests

As a Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for managing the monthly management accounting process for a portfolio of service areas, including accurate accruals, forecasts and adjustments in dialogue with the management of each service area. Alongside this, the successful candidate will produce a consolidated view of the HM Treasury group’s performance, tailored suitably to an Executive Management Board audience. The postholder will work alongside colleagues and utilise models and analytics in order to maintain value for money across the department.

This role will sit in our Group Finance team. We are responsible for providing sound financial management advice and information for internal use, and accurate information for Parliamentary control and public accountability purposes. We also lead the business planning, budgets and spending of HM Treasury and liaising with Arms Lengths Bodies to monitor their budgets and spend. We sit within the Corporate Centre Group who provide corporate systems, services, solutions and facilities to enable HM Treasury Group to deliver effectively and efficiently.

The Treasury is the United Kingdom’s economics and finance ministry. It is responsible for formulating and implementing the government’s financial and economic policy. Its aim is to raise the rate of sustainable growth, and achieve rising prosperity and a better quality of life with economic and employment opportunities for all.

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing.

At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff are able to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

HM Treasury has a strong dedication to equality and diversity and we are a Disability Confident employer. Our aim is to be a department which is open and accessible, recruiting and retaining diverse, talented and high-performing people who support and develop one another.

Individuals appointed to the Treasury will be subject to National Security Vetting. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis using all information that can be obtained following a successful application.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email: hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

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If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

Closing date: 3^rd November 2019.