Deputy Finance Business Partner

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Deputy Finance Business Partner. This is a 9 month contract.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

What you will be doing

As our Deputy Finance Business Partner, you will assist the Finance Business Partnering team in the provision of financial support and advice to our customers. You will assist with the budgeting processes and all budget related activity, movement, profiling and transfers to and from cost centre/subjective codes.

You will maintain and administer the chart of account process and cost centre structure for all customers. Monitor requests and provide relevant customer service. You will also collect, input and analyse data relating to the government sustainability project.

Who we are looking for

• Relevant experience in a finance based role.
• Sound numeracy with the ability to prepare, analyse and manage methodically large amounts of data
• Relationship management and partnership working
• Confidence in communicating financial information to budget holders accurately and concisely
• Technological literacy including proficiency in using financial accounting systems
• Deadline focused and target driven

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.

Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: Mid Jan 2025 - In person, Swindon

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/lpph5x4p/deputy-finance-business-partner.odt