Senior Finance Business Partner

Main Responsibilities

The Senior Finance Business Partner role is a wide and varied role with excellent opportunities for partnership working and service collaboration.

The role involves,

• working with external and internal stakeholders at senior management level to develop financial acumen of budget holders,
• leading the setting and management of budgets, with varying risks and values,
• ensuring the wider business plans and overall strategic plan are met.

It will also involve working alongside other specialist officers on strategic project work, developing business cases and supporting the delivery of a well run council through ensuring good financial governance.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for you to have Membership of a CCAB body preferably CIPFA and some post qualified experience is preferable.

This role would suit you if you,

• have initiative and drive
• are an excellent team player
• can demonstrate an ability to; build strong, trusted, influential working relationships
• manage others and organise and prioritise competing workloads, effectively.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a GoldAward Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

For an informal chat about the roles, please contact Katharine Ross, Assistant Director of Finance at or or Toni Thompson, Strategic Finance Business Partner at