Senior Finance Business Partner in FINANCE TRANSFORMATION

Location: Leeds and London

This is a 9 Fixed Term Contract.

The Senior Finance Business partner will work closely with the Finance Division's, Business Partnering and Financial Planning and Analysis teams, to deliver a dynamic solution to support Bank-wide strategic planning, performance analysis and reporting, which is ultimately presented to Governance boards.

The successful candidate will ensure that all technical and operational components integrate seamlessly to deliver an EPM suite with corresponding reporting capabilities.

You will be at the forefront of the transition from the old to the new systems, ensuring adoption of effective processes for data migration, data integrity, data security and compliance with internal and auditing controls.

Your role will lead and contribute to a wide range of work on the programme:

• Solution validation - Work closely with internal and external technical teams and business leads, to lead the delivery of the integrated and optimised solution.
• Data migration - Lead the EPM data migration, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and completeness. Conduct validations to provide assurance on the data relationships and data integrations across the whole solution.
• Quality assurance - Take a lead role in planning and testing of the EPM solution, validating the outputs from the User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring they are high quality, sufficient and providing assurance on the deliverables.
• Data governance and compliance - Take a lead role in ensuring that traceable auditable evidence has been produced for all critical activities to meet audit and compliance requirements.

Stakeholder management - Act as a main point of contact between internal project leads and external consultants, building strong alignment through effective communication throughout all project phases. Lead the delivery of training, defining the content and approach.

Minimum (Essential) Criteria

The Finance Modernisation Programme is keen to attract diverse candidates and supports flexible working arrangements. Please consider applying for this role if you meet some or many of the characteristics listed below.

• A qualified accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• Own and lead the implementation of workstreams from a technical and operational perspectives.
• An ability to think strategically as well as at the detailed level and drawing conclusions and recommendations and putting them forward to senior management.
• A proactive self-starter who can develop and maintain effective working relationships with the programme community, the wider team, stakeholders from across the Bank and varying levels of seniority, and external suppliers.
• Ability to challenge constructively whilst maintaining excellent working relationships within the programme community and with stakeholders.
• Experience of working collaboratively across project and organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals.
• Ability to lead with a proactive approach, good organisational skills, highly motivated and capable of working autonomously often to tight deadlines by prioritising effectively.
• Maintain a positive outlook; through practical and effective horizon scanning, anticipate risks and what is likely to emerge, spots opportunities, flexes accordingly.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in implementing integrated Oracle EPM solution.
• Experience in compliance and auditing.
• Experience of working in a financial service and/or regulated industry.

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.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the 'Candidate Personal Information' under the 'Disability Confident Scheme' section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working, and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

This role offers a salary of Leeds £59,200 to £68,310 and London £65,755 to £75,870. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice.

The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.

Important: Please ensure that you complete the 'work history' section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It's therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

This role closes on 4 December 2024

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.