Police Scotland is responsible for policing across the country with a workforce of over 20,000 officers and staff. Our dedicated finance team play a crucial role in supporting funding, which is crucial to ensuring we protect the safety of people, places and communities across Scotland.

We are currently recruiting for a wide range of job roles in our finance department. We’re looking for professionals who can support stakeholders, provide financial insight and challenge, and deliver the best value to support operational policing.

Work Location: Dalmarnock / Fettes / Dundee

Number of Positions: 5 Posts

Contract: 2 x Permanent & 3 x Temporary Contracts (18 Months)

Role Purpose:

The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for the provision of high quality financial information and analysis, expert advice and support to their portfolios, supporting service leads to effectively manage service delivery within available financial resources, and deliver optimal value for public money from their business area.

As the portfolio’s primary interface for the Finance function, the role will facilitate the required support from all Finance communities of expertise to deliver our customers’ strategic requirements in a timely and efficient manner.

The jobholder will facilitate and direct other Finance functional areas and their resources, such as the Business Intelligence Team, through active contribution to the work planning process, and, as necessary, through direct engagement with staff in different Finance functions involved in delivering outcomes to their portfolio.

Education, Qualification, Skills and Experience:

Attainments (Essential)

Extended post-qualification experience in delivering finance business partnering in a large, complex organisation.
Extensive experience of financial reporting, planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
Experience in the preparation of business cases, and provision of analysis and insight to support investment decision making.
Experience in the development and monitoring of savings and efficiency plans.
Experience in the improvement of financial processes and financial management information.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation and report writing.
Proven experience of building strong working relationships with stakeholders across the finance function and wider organisation.
Proven experience of effectively and constructively negotiating with non-finance stakeholders, and challenging financial information to secure optimal value for money from services.
Experience of delivering high quality results and being able to manage competing priorities in an effective and resilient manner.

Attainments (Desirable)

Public sector experience.

Educational/Occupational (Essential)

CCAB qualified.

Personal Qualities (Essential)

Ability to quickly build effective working relationships with key stakeholders, both finance and non-finance.
Ability to convey technical information and requirements to a non-technical audience.
Confidence and credibility in dealing with senior non-finance stakeholders.
Ability to negotiate and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
Confident working on own initiative and adopting a pro-active solutions driven approach.
Thinking beyond own role and team, using knowledge of external environment to maximise internal capabilities.
Ability to effectively balance corporate and service responsibilities.

Special Aptitudes (Essential)

Strong analytical skills.
Financial systems literate.
Advanced knowledge of Excel.
Strong knowledge of data protection requirements, and experience in professionally handling confidential information.
Strong attention to detail.
Enthusiastic and professional.
Personal responsibility and ownership for the delivery of the highest quality and impactful outputs.
Commitment to continuous improvement, both within the service and personal development.
Resilient and adaptable.
Commitment / ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Working in policing is exciting and challenging. As part of our employment package we offer:

Competitive salaries and annual salary increments
Local Government Pension Scheme
28 days annual leave and six public holidays on appointment
Access to a wide range of quality training and development opportunities.
Access to flexitime.
Excellent wellbeing support and employee assistance and discounts and savings through our rewards and benefits network.

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