Dstl UK Jobs – Finance Business Partner

About the job

The Business Partner role is flexible and diverse meaning you could be involved in a variety of activities.

These are some of the key areas you’ll be focusing on:

• Providing professional contribution on behalf of the finance function to one or more directorates that is timely, accurate and adds value, ensuring that strategic intent is maintained.
• Enabling informed and effective financial and business decision-making by ensuring that financial support provided by yourself and management accounting team is timely, accessible and of good quality.
• Continuously improving service delivery through feedback from our customers.
• Providing support in the preparation of budgets and forecasts including authoritative financial advice on the impacts of changing requirements and targets.
• Delivering required financial and other management information to corporate centre in line with published timetables and ad hoc requirements.
• Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external customers and partners.
• Providing quality oversight and assurance of financial information, actively encouraging innovation and improvement both within the finance community and with wider influence.
• Identifying and support improvements to business processes, considering organisation effectiveness and not just short term savings.
• Improve financial awareness of Senior Management, leadership roles and project managers within Dstl and MOD.
• Ensuring knowledge flow through the organisation and to ensure professional finance discipline.
• Deliver appropriate awareness training to non-finance staff in key leadership and management roles.
• Maintain an effective, engaged, motivated and balanced team.
• Ensuring the finance team maintains its objectivity, impartiality, independence and integrity in adhering to professional code of ethics, applicable accounting and reporting standards and other corporate policy/guidelines.

For more information on the Job Role, please see the Job Profile attached below.