HM Treasury
Location
Finance Business Partner and Financial Accounting and Reporting roles are available in Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield.
Location preferences will then be used where possible to match candidates who are successful at interview with the most suitable available roles.
About The Job Job Summary
Use your accountancy qualification to influence decisions that affect millions of people and how billions of pounds of public money are spent.
If you are a talented and ambitious qualified accountant looking for an exciting opportunity to progress your career, the Government Finance Function is looking for people like you!
The Government Finance Function (GFF) is a far-reaching, diverse community that brings together finance professionals throughout government with a wide range of different roles and specialisms to get involved in and where everyone benefits from shared resources, development opportunities, expertise, and values.
We are recruiting on behalf of multiple government organisations who are looking for dynamic and ambitious qualified accountants to support their work. You will not only join a government organisation, but you will also join a professional community of over 10,000 finance professionals across the whole of government.
This is an opportunity to progress your financial career in a supportive and professional community, where the work you do has a clear impact on communities across the UK and delivers for the UK internationally.
Roles Available Include:
Finance Business Partner: As a Finance Business Partner, you will provide strategic financial insight and analysis to support decision-making across your Accounting and Reporting: Your focus in this role will be delivering core financial controls and providing technical accounting advice. You will play a critical part in maintaining the integrity of the organisation’s financial statements.
Job Description
As a qualified accountant in the GFF, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, to make sure that taxpayer money is always spent effectively and meaningfully. And we do that in lots of different ways: through strategy work, complex financial analysis, and budget-planning. Qualified accountants work at the heart of government, working to reduce public debt, building strategies for the UK’s future, dealing with complex accounts and unique transactions, and crunching numbers to achieve the most cost-efficient outcome.
You will be an excellent communicator who is confident explaining complex financial concepts clearly to key stakeholders, providing technical accounting advice, ensuring that finance is at the heart of government decision-making. Because that’s how we achieve better outcomes for communities right across the UK.
As a qualified accountant, you will analyse complex financial data, identify trends and provide strategic financial insight to support the organisation. Qualified accountants in the GFF with big budgets, in big ways. Everything’s rooted in real life. There are people behind our numbers. And we use our skills every day to achieve good and worthwhile outcomes, helping the public and bringing about positive change in society.
Person specification
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the following criteria:
Essential Criteria
Finance qualified with CCAB, CIMA or an equivalent professional accountancy qualification and to hold full membership of that body (CCAB bodies include ACCA, CIPFA, ICAEW, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland).Ability to analyse, manage and present complex financial data with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, identifying trends and providing evidence-based insights to support decision making.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to effectively build relationships with key stakeholders, and explain complex financial concepts in a clear and concise manner.Able to plan and deliver work effectively, managing multiple priorities and deadlines, collaborating across teams, and driving improvements and efficiencies.
Desirable Criteria
Experience applying professional accountancy standards and controls within a large or complex organisation.
Candidate Drop-in Sessions
We will be running two online candidate drop-in sessions.
These are opportunities for you to meet representatives of the GFF Resourcing team and the finance teams at the hiring departments and to ask any questions you may have.
Tuesday 10 March 2026 at 17:00 – 17:45
Wednesday 18 March 2026 at 13:00 – 13:45
Qualifications
CIMA or CCAB qualification (CCAB bodies include ACCA,CIPFA, ICAEW, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland).
Memberships
CIMA or CCAB membership
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
You will be required to provide a presentation at interview, details of which will be sent with the interview details if successful at sift selection stage.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,076, HM Treasury contributes £13,058 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Benefits
Life in the GFF is all about balance. It’s about having challenge in your remit and enjoying a culture of care. It’s about having flexibility in your hours, and ambition in your goals. It’s about feeling the value of your ideas, and the sense of purpose in what we can all achieve together. And it’s about being part of a big community, without ever feeling like just a number. Here are some of the top reasons why joining us is a great idea:
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%Training and professional development opportunities, with dedicated time to focus on themGenerous annual leave package of 25 days’ annual leave with the opportunity to progress to 30 days’ annual leave after a period of service (in line with the policy of the recruiting department). Plus, public holidays and the King’s birthday tooFlexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours)Generous parental and adoption leave packageA range of active and engaged staff networks, based around interests and diversityAs well as a competitive salary, you’ll have access to a range of financial and lifestyle benefits.
Flexible Working Opportunities
The GFF views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All members of our community have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.
In the GFF, we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important members of our GFF community come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
There is an office based working approach across all sites and along with the rest of the Civil Service, there is an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that these roles can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for hybrid working. Similarly, hybrid working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
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