Strategic Finance Business Partner

About the role

The Finance Service in Cambridgeshire is focused on stewardship of funds on behalf of local taxpayers and promoting value for money across the County Council. We are a diverse team of finance professionals which is highly regarded across the organisation. The council has a strong focus on delivering services efficiently for residents and strong financial control.

We are recruiting for a Strategic Finance Business Partner to support the council's Place & Sustainability directorate, which covers services such as highways, major capital projects, waste disposal and environmental services. This post manages a team of finance professionals to deliver a high quality finance business partnering function. This post also provides the strategic business partner role to the council's Strategy & Partnerships directorate, drawing on support from across the wider finance team.

The role works alongside the Head of Finance and other strategic business partners as part of the Finance Management Team, shaping the work of the whole service.

Interviews are expected to take place in week commencing 16 December 2024.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for leading finance business partnering support to a portfolio of key council services, and being the business partner to two of the council's executive directors, building a culture of strong financial management across your team and services.

This will include managing finance support to services through the whole financial cycle, from medium-term financial planning and budget setting, to in-year financial monitoring, to accounts production. You will have a leading role in financial support to the directorate's ambitious capital programme, and will need to have a strong focus on financial governance, as well as working on business cases and major change activity.

About you

We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated finance professional to bring energy and expertise to this role. You will be a team builder, and able to manage a diverse workload directly and through team members. Building effective relationships with directors and services will also be key. It's a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional to help lead and support delivery of the council's ambitions.

This role is for a passionate accountancy professional to bring enthusiasm, curiosity and experience of working in a complex financial role. We will give you support and opportunities to develop, being part of a council that is committed to helping colleagues achieve their full potential.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• CCC Employment Benefits Brochure [October 2024].pdf
• Strategic Finance Business Partner JDPS 2024.pdf