Senior HR Business Partner for the Government Finance Function

Are you looking to join a diverse team, engaging senior leaders across government? Contribute to setting the wider strategic direction, partnering across a complex and diverse organisation and ensuring collective delivery against shared strategic priorities? If so, we would love to hear from you!

About the Team

People and Capability is a key priority for the Government Finance Function. The Government Finance Function (GFF) ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government - driving the agenda, not just keeping score. The Finance Function comprises of over 9,000 FTE spread across over 40 Government organisations.

The team and therefore the postholder as Senior HR Business Partner in this role are responsible for delivery of the Skilled and Talented objective within the GFF Strategy 2030.

The objective of the team is to build and support a capable, diverse and robust workforce across the GFF through delivery of eight agreed priorities:

• Learning and development - the Government Finance Academy
• Finance Career Framework
• Senior resourcing and centralised recruitment
• Early careers
• Attraction
• Talent management
• Diversity, inclusion and well-being

Building excellent links with networks across Government to utilise expert services and embed our initiatives in departments, sharing knowledge, best practice and resource.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

1. Lead, inspire and empower a high-performing team of HR professionals (9FTE), leading on Talent, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, Attraction, Early Careers, Senior Resourcing, Reward and Transformation, setting clear priorities, coaching individuals, and fostering a culture of high performance and professional growth.
2. Provide leadership for the GFF People Strategy, shaping direction, ensuring alignment with the GFF Functional Strategy 2030, and driving a future-focused People agenda, focused on outcome-driven plans, ensuring a strong, diverse and sustainable talent pipeline into the Function.
3. Act as a trusted and credible adviser to senior leaders across the Finance Function, including Heads of Function, Directors General, Directors and Deputy Directors, providing expert HR insight, and career advice, ensuring the Function meets its people commitments, set out in the Strategy.
4. Work with the Head of Capability and Learning Delivery to lead the GFF People Committee (Finance Director resourced Committee), Deputy Director Talent Forum (Finance Director resourced Committee), and Heads of Finance Professionalism meetings, ensuring alignment with governance structures and ensuring value and delivery for partners and government organisations is progressed against strategic priorities.

About You

The successful candidate will be an inspiring and empowering leader with rounded HR expertise and the ability to set direction, coach, develop and engage individuals and diverse teams to achieve high performance.

You will have experience of leading a high-performing HR team, delivering a range of talent and resourcing activities and interventions, that drive organisational performance and strategic outcomes.

You'll be able to articulate a compelling vision and people strategy, using strong influencing and relationship-building skills to secure commitment, alignment and engagement across an organisational context, and at senior levels.

Lastly you will have demonstrated ability to build trusted, collaborative partnerships, working effectively with a wide range of partners, across all levels of seniority, to deliver shared objectives and enable collective success.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

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