Finance Business Partner (Inside IR35)

Contract Term:12 Months

Contracting Authority: Bank of England

Location: 2 days per week London, Threadneedle Street Building

The Bank of England is the UK's central bank. Our mission is to deliver monetary and financial stability for the British people.

The Bank of England is a diverse organisation. Each of its 4,000 people are committed to public service and dedicated to promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability.

The Finance & Performance Directorate has three Divisions, Finance Business Partnering, Financial Reporting & Control, and Financial Planning and Analysis.

As a Finance Business Partner, your main responsibilities will be: 

• This is a Finance Business Partner role to deliver key financial outcomes to support the Central Services transformation programme  
• Central Services DG includes the following Directorates: Technology, Central Operations (Property, Security, Procurement), People, and Change & Planning. Also, the programme includes the DAT Directorate (Data & Analytics Team) 
• A key role in providing effective financial management and control of the project costs
• You will be working to define the costs to be recharge for specific services provided by Central Services and DAT
• You will be supporting the identification of costs and savings across the transformation activities across the different Central Services Directorates and
• DAT
• You will be responsible along with the business to determine the TCO (Total Cost Ownership) for the different Technology services 
• You will be working with the different programme stakeholders to ensure key spend categories baseline to determine savings and efficiencies derived from the transformation activities  
• You will help to determine specific ratios aiming to show how Central Services high impact service time is being reduced through management decision in efficiencies and productivity
• You will become a trusted and credible advisor to the programme directors and Executive Director sponsors providing financial insight and contributing to decision making.

Essential:

• SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role; as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
• Capacity to translate finance data in a commercial language for effective communication.
• Significant experience of stakeholder management
• Be able to engage with, build effective relationships with influence and Challenge stakeholders from across the Programme and DAT
• Experience of business partnering centralised support functions including
• technology and property services
• An understanding and experience of working for public sector or similar organisations and the different financial and business focus this results in process optimisation and improvement.
• Strong excel skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage in a fast-paced environment with multiple deliverables and ongoing change.
• The ability to operate autonomously with as minimal guidance and support as possible

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at Trevor.Wilson@weareams.com

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We believe that it s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

Disability confident  

As a member of the disability confident scheme, Bank of England guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

Armed Forces Covenant??? 

AWEis proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.  

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. 

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any?point during the recruitment process or if there is a?more accessible way for us to communicate, please do?let me know. 

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.