Finance Business Partner

Main purpose of job:

Finance Business Partners (FBPs) support the effective delivery of business plans, providing clear advice and being able to identify and outline technical finance solutions as required. You will help ensure alignment between finance and business strategies.

You will build strong relationships influencing and facilitating constructive challenge of the business. You will use your financial qualifications and expertise to provide financial information, detailed analysis, and business insight to Heads of UK Overseas Missions, and finance colleagues to support effective planning, decision making, and capacity building. You will focus on areas of high risk and materiality, i.e. multi-million-pound business cases, building expertise on fraud identification across budgets of c1bn and identifying areas for business improvement.

FBPs support a wide variety of business areas across FCDO. You will be help support large Embassies or High Commissions in effectively delivering their business plans within their annual budgets (over 1m), through sound advice and challenge.

We reserve the right to review, revise or amend the roles and responsibilities from time to time reflecting the changing needs of business.

Roles and responsibilities / what will the jobholder be expected to achieve:

In this role you will also be responsible for:

• Supporting large Embassies/High Commissions to effectively deliver their business plans by providing a high-quality finance business partnering service, as set out above, alongside others in your team.

• Providing advice on high value business cases to ensure cases meet the 4 Accounting Officer tests.
• Use Management Information, data analytics and digital tools to provide quality, timely and accurate performance analysis, reporting and recommendations where required to support effective decision making.
• Building relationships with senior stakeholders to promote accountability, ensure VFM, and supporting the business to effectively manage their resources.
• Support the Senior Finance Business Partner, in the UK, to ensure that the business completes all finance returns and other corporate initiatives and policies.
• Supporting strategic finance exercises including business planning, resource allocation, and strategic workforce planning; and
• Improving standards of financial management in the FCDO by applying professional judgement in interpreting management information, partner evidence, and accounting standards.

You will also be expected to carry out a corporate goal to support the work in your location.

Resources managed (staff and expenditure): No direct line management

Language requirements:

• Language: English
• Level of language required: Fluent written and spoken.

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Learning and development opportunities (if any)

The FCDO is committed to developing all staff to their full potential both through on the job experience, formal L&D and bespoke training, where appropriate. If you are working towards a professional finance qualification, financial support will be available to successful candidates in line with policy. If part qualified, support will be given to gain full qualification.

Essential on arrival:

Candidate needs to be Qualified, Part Qualified or willing to study towards qualification with CCAB, CGMA or a local equivalent.

Candidates need to have financial experience built up over an extended period of time of at least 5 years.

• Candidate should be able to analyse, manage and present complex financial information clearly both verbally and in writing to support senior decision makers. You must understand different financial planning and budgeting techniques and their application in different contexts.
• Candidate needs to have advanced practical skills in one or more area of management accounting and cost analysis, investment finance, treasury management, planning and budgeting and financial accounting, and can set and interpret financial policy in these areas and combining this with sound business knowledge and is able to provide advice, guidance and leadership to others.
• Candidate needs to have a proactive and solutions-based approach and a focus on continuous improvement of self and service, with an appetite to work with others to simplify processes and improve efficiency.

Application Submission deadline: 13 March 2026 (23:55 hrs IST)