Providing specialist financial advice - engaging with experts on behalf of the business and providing advice on key financial planning, processes and budget setting.
A business expert with strong interpersonal relationships with the business who translates and reports information between business and finance, acting as a trusted partner who provides valuable financial advice, strategic insight and providing solutions to Directors and other budget holders.
G7 FBPs are business experts with strong interpersonal relationships. They understand the business and are able translate and present complex financial information clearly. They provide valuable financial advice, challenge and support, strategic insight and business solutions often to Directors and other budget holders. They take on larger or more complex areas and with a focus on business cases.
Suitable for staff with the required skills and/or experience from within Finance.
Recommended:
Providing specialist financial advice - engaging with experts on behalf of the business and providing advice on key financial planning, processes and budget setting.
Taking responsibility for all financial information provided to the business, and the associated recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
Challenging weakness in process compliance within the business and reporting on control effectiveness.
Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with the department performance and activity plans.
Attending and influencing senior leader team boards.
Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in policy development and business cases.
Driving evidence based policy-making by inputting financial insight throughout the process.
Challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making and increase performance.
Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business.
Supporting and coordinating delivery of financial services to the directorate.
Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping Directorates develop solutions.
Management of team members or oversight of other's work, and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
For details of Behaviours read the Success Profiles guidance on GOV.UK
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
Developing Self and Others
Highlights areas of potential conflict between stakeholders and manages them accordingly.
A confident communicator, comfortable with challenging senior business leaders.
Ability to influence at all levels of the business hierarchy, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups.
Able to remain focused on the overall business strategic vision during negotiation, knowing when to compromise and when to challenge for the benefit of the business.
Highly visible across their area as the primary point of contact for financial advice - the 'face' of Government Finance.
Understands the vision for the business and confidently leads others to realise the vision.
Leadership, and the ability to motivate and develop a diverse finance team and promote excellence.
Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data and reporting and working with Financial Systems colleagues to develop additional reporting as required.
Key for Levels of Professional Skills
A = Awareness
W = Working
P = Practitioner
E = Expert
| Subheadings | Professional Skills | Level | Learning Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Budgeting, forecasting and costing | P | |
| The Budgeting Framework | P | ||
| Commercial acumen | P | ||
| Investment appraisal and evaluation | P | ||
| Strategic analysis and insight | W | ||
| Accounting Officer responsibilities | W | ||
| Oral and written presentation skills | E | ||
| Performance and risks | W | ||
| Understanding the role of the NAO | W | ||
| Data and analytics interpretation | E | ||
| Useful | Taxation | A | |
| Government financial reporting | A | ||
| Supporting the PAC agenda | A | ||
| Risk management and fraud | W | ||
| Interpretation of accounts | W |
Recommended:
Working towards qualification
Details of how to gain a finance qualification through an apprenticeship can be found here:
This role may be suitable for FBP SEOs and other Finance individuals at SEO, Financial Operations SEOs for example, and G7 with the required influencing, stakeholder management, interpersonal skills and technical financial understanding.
This role is not suitable for non-finance professionals or individuals without significant finance experience.
Staff in this role typically progress to Financial Business Partnering G6, or transfer to Management Reporting G7 or Financial Accounting and Reporting G7 roles or other Business Support G7 roles. This will also include level transfers from other finance roles.