About the job

Job summary

We are looking for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Office at the House of Lords. This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your finance expertise to advise and challenge stakeholders, ensuring value for money across Parliament. You will enjoy building relationships with a range of offices and individuals, and be able to support by providing sound guidance, high-quality information, and reports for each office.

This is an opportunity to work on a hybrid basis, with a minimum of 2 days a week on-site at Parliament. You would need to be flexible and ensure that you are able to attend team meetings on-site, enabling you to learn from others in the Finance Office and build networks and relationships across wider Parliamentary offices.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with excellent attention to detail and analytical skills, who enjoys working within a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.

Job description

You’ll be accountable for –

• Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, budget holders, managers to understand their areas in order to support the delivery of the Administration’s priorities, including ensuring value for money.
• Obtain the necessary information from budget holders and managers for month and quarter-end adjustments such as accruals, prepayments etc.
• Support budget holders in the preparation of Medium-Term Financial Plans, including assisting with pay calculations and budget profiling.
• Assisting in the preparation of business cases by providing the necessary financial information and input into costings
• Assist with developing and maintaining systems to improve financial reporting and accountability, including performance measures.

If this sounds like something you would like to hear more about, please see the full role responsibilities on the attached job description.

Person specification

What we’re looking for

• Finance experience and technical skills – Experience of working in a finance environment and relevant accounting skills; excellent IS/IT skills, including experience of computerised accounting systems and Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel to intermediate level as a minimum.

 

• Relationship Management - Experience in building and maintaining effective working relationships and networks at all levels, working with internal and external auditors and other key stakeholders.

 

• Analytical skills and problem solving– Strong analytical skills with experience of analysing large volumes of complex data; the ability to identify problems and risks and propose solutions, seeking guidance and support from senior management, where appropriate.

• Communication skills – Clear and accurate oral, written, and online communications skills, including the ability to explain complex issues to non-finance colleagues, making them easy to understand.

 

• Accuracy and delivering at pace – A high level of attention to detail with the ability to work accurately and effectively to meet demanding deadlines whilst remaining calm and focused.

 

It would be even better if you had…

• An understanding of the public sector financial framework as it applies in central government;
• Experience of working in a finance business partnering environment

 

Benefits

 

What you’ll get in return

• 30 days annual leave (increasing to 35 after one years’ service)
• Generous pension scheme
• Discounts from well-known brands and retailers
• Parliamentary health and wellbeing programme
• The opportunity to witness history in the making!

The work we do is vital to House of Lords, and you will be a pivotal member in the team strengthening the work of the House. The House of Lords is the second chamber of the UK parliament. It is independent from and complements the work of the House of Commons to:

• Make laws
• Check and challenge the actions of the government through questions and debates
• Investigate public policy and provide a forum of independent expertise

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Please complete your online application by 23.55pm on Wednesday 12th June 2024.  

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process, please contact HLRecruitment@parliament.uk

The House of Lords Administration is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of their age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender/sex, gender reassignment/trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. The Administration will also consider flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. For this role we particularly welcome applications from groups which are currently underrepresented within the team, including applications from Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates and candidates with disabilities.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.