Finance Business Partner

Camden Town, England, United Kingdom

1/12/2025

Salary: £48,969 
Grade: Level 4, Zone 2
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent 
Hours: 36, Full Time
Closing Date: Monday 27th January 2025; 23:55
 

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because, we’re not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. The Finance service in Camden has an ambitious vision to ensure delivery of a high-quality, value- added service with excellent financial controls. We will do this through an exciting journey of change, challenge, and innovation.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because, we’re not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.

The Finance service in Camden has an ambitious vision to ensure delivery of a high-quality, value- added service with excellent financial controls. We will do this through an exciting journey of change, challenge, and innovation.

To deliver on this aspiration, our finance team is expected to work in a collaborative way within the council, and with our residents and partners. It is important that we provide a service that always reflects best practice and is streamlined and efficient. To achieve this, we will continue to invest in our teams to ensure they are properly resourced and skilled to provide sound, relevant financial advice and innovative solutions to support service pressures, demonstrate initiative and lead a solution focused service.

To view the Job Profile, please click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your browser: 
http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10736127/file/document?inline

All About You

In this role you will have experience of supporting in both revenue and capital budget forecasting and prior experience in developing annual budgets, gained in a large complex organisation.  
 

You will ensure accurate financial postings to the ledger of income, expenditure and corrective postings into the ledger and be confident to prepare and post journals and virements.

You will demonstrate a strong understanding of the financial policies and framework in which the council operates.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to prepare working papers and coordinate financial postings as part of the end of year closing of accounts.

The right individual will have strong communication skills and will be able to evidence where you have worked as partner to challenge, facilitate, manage and drive performance improvements with experience of explaining complex financial information to key stakeholders both verbally and in writing.

Please refer to the job profile for more information.

 

What We Offer 

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.   

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity   

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do. 

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details. 

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.   

Asking for Adjustments   

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.