Project Finance Business Partner

£48,429 to £52,222 per year, National Min- £48,429, Max- £52,222. A Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,200 or £4,500 is applicable to this role depending on experience and qualification status.

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

20/03/2026

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business.

The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce.

The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives.

We have 9 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability network group, Employee Assistance, Representatives, FACES Network Group, LGBT, Mind Matters, Part Time Workers, The Shed

• Men's Network Group and Women's Network Group.

We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working.

We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people.

We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.

The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified or final year part-qualified Accountant to join the Insolvency Service as a Project Finance Business Partner (FBP). Are you looking to step into a high-impact role where your financial expertise will directly shape decision-making?

As a Project FBP, you will play a key part in supporting Projects, driving financial rigour and strengthening the Agency's ability to deliver its strategic objectives.

This is an interesting, varied and rewarding role within an established team of finance professionals.

The Finance, Commercial, Sustainability and Property (FCSP) Directorate manage, oversee and analyse the Agency's financial and commercial activity.

By reporting on our current position, forecasting our future budgets and working closely with internal and external stakeholders, we play an active part in understanding the agency's performance and in shaping its current and future financial position.

The role is within the Project & National Interest Case FBP Team which works within the FCSP Directorate and is strategically placed at the heart of the organisation to provide project finance advice to key stakeholders and Senior Leaders across a varied project portfolio.

What do Project FBPs do: The team supports the organisation in the delivery of change projects (with the NIC Accountant separately helping to administer National Interest Cases) by providing expert financial guidance and reporting.

We help the business achieve this by offering robust challenge to achieve realistic financial forecasts, and support with HM Government finance processes.

We also provide input to business cases and deliver specific accounting advice to shape commercial decisions.

Qualifications and Training support to complete your professional accountancy qualification if applicable.

Please see Person Specification for further details of Qualification requirements of this role support to complete the CIPFA Diploma in Finance Business Partnering opportunity to complete other related training, such as CIPFA Better Business Cases training Teamwork team members are encouraged to support each other and work together, for example knowledge-sharing or simply giving time to one another to help overcome challenges Autonomy all our team members are encouraged to identify issues and continuously improve ways of working as part of a wider stakeholder group.

• Finance Business Partnering: be the single point of Finance contact for your stakeholders, fostering excellent working relationships hosting or attending meetings, e.g. monthly forecast review meetings, presenting key finance information at project boards field and reply to finance queries from stakeholders, focussing on delivery outcomes whilst remaining impartial and providing appropriate challenge being a key stakeholder on strategy formation, working collaboratively with stakeholders and Finance colleagues.
• Technical and Accounting: ensure accounts are reflective of the accruals concept provide auditable and transparent records relating to accounting transactions monitor and address potential issues of novel and contentious spend provide advice around accounting and VAT treatment of transactions, ensuring financial transactions are appropriately recorded.
• Business Case Development: provide financial input into business case development, working collaboratively with stakeholders to obtain information, challenging assumptions when necessary assessing financial impacts across multiple years, e.g. capitalisation and IFRS16 lease accounting assisting with obtaining necessary internal and external approvals of business cases.
• Budgets, Forecasts and Spending Reviews: work closely with stakeholders to support them with developing robust financial forecasts, utilising available tools, e.g. resource tracker understand potential under and over spends and areas of financial risk early, reporting and monitoring appropriately provide monthly consolidated returns to stakeholders such as the Management Accounts and Financial Accounts team provide annual budget and spending review returns to the Financial Planning Team, matching these to internal forecasts and applying narrative to support Line Management.
• Cost Centre Management: this role may require the line management of a Cost Centre Manager (CCM), undertaking quarterly performance reviews and developing capability oversight of CCM's Cost Centre and Ledger Management duties relating to transactions and journal processing oversight and support the CCM's cross-team task provide CCM direction on non-standard reporting requirements, ensuring delivery to stakeholders in a suitable method and reviewable time-frame.

Please note that as this is a Finance role month-end is a critical time, therefore leave for the 1st and 2nd working day of each month can only be approved by exception.

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