Finance Business Partner

Police Scotland is responsible for policing across the country with a workforce of over 20,000 officers and staff. Our dedicated finance team play an important role in supporting funding, which is crucial to ensuring we protect the safety of people, places and communities across Scotland.

We are currently recruiting for a wide range of job roles in our finance department. We’re looking for professionals who can support stakeholders, provide financial insight and challenge, and deliver the best value to support operational policing.

The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for the provision of high quality financial information and analysis, expert advice and support to their portfolios, supporting service leads to effectively manage service delivery within available financial resources, and deliver optimal value for public money from their business area.

As the portfolio’s primary interface for the Finance function, the role will facilitate the required support from all Finance communities of expertise to deliver our customers’ strategic requirements in a timely and efficient manner.

The jobholder will facilitate and direct other Finance functional areas and their resources, such as the Business Intelligence Team, through active contribution to the work planning process, and, as necessary, through direct engagement with staff in different Finance functions involved in delivering outcomes to their portfolio.

As part of our employment package we offer:

• Competitive salaries and annual salary increments
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave and six public holidays on appointment
• Access to a wide range of quality training and development opportunities.
• Access to flexitime.
• Excellent wellbeing support and employee assistance and discounts and savings through our rewards and benefits network.

Starting salary for role is £51,239