Finance Business Partner

DVSA is a large, complex government organisation responsible for road safety. It operates across Great Britain generating annual income of around £450m and employing c4,600 people.

Our Finance Business Partners possess a deep understanding of the business and excel at communicating financial data and other information clearly. They provide valuable financial advice, support, strategic insight, challenge, and business solutions.To succeed in this role, you will need to build strong stakeholder relationships to enable effective strategic financial management. These relationships will be crucial for influencing decision-making and facilitating constructive challenges.Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to:

Developing a thorough understanding of the business and its deliverables while building stakeholder relationships.

Translating, owning, and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence that supports business activities and requirements.

Reviewing and contributing to business cases and strategic documentation.

Providing ad-hoc analysis and presentations to drive and support business decisions, such as efficiency and cost reduction options, utilising all available data and analytics tools.

Person specification

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

Required experience:To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

Cultivating a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration among business, finance, and other corporate services.

Adapting communication styles to suit various audiences, including both internal and external stakeholders.

Utilising facts and evidence to support negotiation and influence.

Assisting others in understanding the interdependencies between business and finance.

Being proactive and passionate, inspiring continuous improvement in others.

Bridging the gap between business and finance by effectively "speaking the language" of both, serving as a crucial translator.

Additional Information

This role can be based in Swansea, Nottingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham or Leeds - your presence at one of these locations will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you. We operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Our expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60% of your time at your base location. Visits to other DVSA sites or work locations count towards this.

About Us

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.We're working hard to:

Make roads safer.

Improve services for our customers.

Make road transport greener and healthier.

Harness the potential of technology and data.

Grow and level up the economy.

BehavioursWe'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing

Seeing the Big Picture

Interviews will take place between 21-24 April 2026.

How to Apply Full details can be found on Civil Service Jobs - Job ref: 452737.

For this role you will need to submit a CV which must include your employment history, relevant experience to date, and professional qualifications and memberships.For your CV, please provide detailed evidence of your experience against the following essential criteria:

• Experience in fostering a culture of knowledge and collaboration between business, finance and other corporate services.
• Experience of using facts and evidence to aid negotiation and influencing.

Please note, for this vacancy, we are working with our recruitment partner Hays. Please send your CV to Jackie Taylor -

The selection process will include an interview and presentation.What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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