Finance Business Partner


Apply Now
 

Details

Reference number

325603

Salary

£36,312 – £41,571
Increasing to £37,004 – £42,363 on the 01.01.2024
A
Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

RoS – Operations – Finance

Type of role

Finance

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

We offer a hybrid working model that provides flexibility to our colleagues in terms of how they work, as long as it meets the needs of both the individual and the organisation. Whilst some opt to do the majority of their work from home, others opt to blend home and office working to suit their specific needs. Your contractual base will be either Edinburgh or Glasgow. You may be required to visit one of these locations when it is deemed necessary, however this is role dependant.

Job summary

To provide management information and financial analysis to enable evidenced based decision making in support of RoS business objectives and enable efficient and effective use of RoS resources through budgetary control.

Job description

Main duties:
•    Produce monthly delegated budgeting reports on staffing and expenditure, ensuring quality and accuracy.
•    Analyse the data produced and liaise with relevant areas to explain resource usage and understand drivers behind cost and performance variances.
•    Produce monthly reports for RoS governance bodies including business and financial performance report.
•    Ensure key messages from financial information are highlighted and clearly explained.
•    Provide assistance to business areas so that they understand the financial impact of their projects and follow cost control procedures.
•    Provide support in production of business cases, carrying out, 
•    analysis, appraisal and challenge to arrive at a robust end product.
•    Carry out financial analysis as required to ensure effective use of resources for example for fee reviews and process costing 
•    Provide support to the Finance Modelling Team where required.
•    Any other adhoc duties commensurate with the role

Person specification

Technical / Experience
Part qualified / qualified CCAB (or CIMA) Accountant, AAT (or similar) qualified or qualified by experience.
Competent in the use of Windows based finance systems and Microsoft office applications, as a minimum, have intermediate excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, conditional functions etc.)

Working Together 

•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate the strategic implications of complex financial issues. Works collaboratively to ensure that RoS delivers its strategic outcomes within the resources available.

Making Effective Decisions

•Strong analytical skills – Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial information effectively to key stakeholders, including non-finance professionals.

Managing a Quality Service

•Ability to work across teams, planning and driving forward longer-term work whilst managing shorter term demands. Deliver to deadlines and deliver high quality outputs under pressure, whilst demonstrating a commercial, financial, and sustainable mind set to ensure all activities and services deliver added value.

Delivering at pace

•Adaptable and willing to review role and priorities to meet the current and future needs of the organisation.

Alongside your salary of £36,312, Registers of Scotland contributes
£9,804 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
What can we offer you? – Benefits at RoS:
We are a welcoming and inclusive community that functions on supportive practices such as Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, UX specialists and more. 
We offer a stimulating working environment and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission!
Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success.
We work in an agile way, which is applied across the whole organisation. 
RoS offers a generous annual leave entitlement. Starting with 26 days of holiday plus 12 days bank holidays (for a total of 38 days). We reward your commitment to us by increasing annual leave by +1 day per year, for up to +4 additional days on your entitlement, bringing your allowance to 42 days.
We operate a 36-hour working week and offer flexible working arrangements (up to 30 hours flexi per month). 
We offer office locations in Edinburgh & Glasgow and currently offer a hybrid working model, having established we can successfully work remotely.

As part of the reward package, you will get access to: 
Civil Service employer pension contributions at circa 27%.
Service benefits, cycle to work scheme, discounted dental insurance, £100 eye care vouchers subsidised gym memberships, childcare vouchers, buying and selling annual leave, retail discounts and more!
Family friendly leave policies (Maternity at *1-year full pay, Paternity Leave/Shared parental Leave/Special Leave & more) *after 1 year of continuous service.
We offer continuous training and development opportunities, including being able to attend industry events.
A generous salary range with pay progression arrangements is in place. 
You will have access to external counselling and external advice. 
We are a Disability Confident employer.
We hold a Invest in People Gold Award, Investors in Young People Silver Award and We Invest in Wellbeing Gold Award.
We monitor equal opportunities and offer support where needed.

Selection process details

How to Apply
To apply, click on ‘Apply now’ and complete our online application form, you will need to submit:
• A CV  and Supporting statement setting out your career history and how you meet the Technical/Experience elements of the essential criteria (we recommend no more than 4 pages in length).
• Provide answers on how you meet the Competencies (including the technical elements) as stated above (1000 words maximum for the personal statement)

Please note
• CVs that are not accompanied by answers to the competencies will not be scored.
• Competency answers exceeding 350 words will not be considered.  We would strongly recommend that you’re answers are written in the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action & Result).
• We recommend that you work on your answers to the competencies using some form of word processing software such as MS Word or Google sheets, and then paste it in the boxes provided; the system will “time-out” and sign you off if you are inactive or spend over a certain amount of time in the application without saving your progress.

For further information on the competencies, visit our Competency Framework.
If you have any questions about the role, you can contact resourcing@ros.gov.uk 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available.
You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : resourcing@ros.gov.uk
  • Email : resourcing@ros.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : resourcing@ros.gov.uk

Further information

https://www.ros.gov.uk
Apply at advertiser’s site

Share this page

 
 

Apply Now

Posted

in