Senior Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 31st March 2026
📍 Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Swansea (Hybrid)
💷 Salary: £57,515 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
This role attracts a recruitment and retention allowance of £4,000 per annum.
🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent– Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
🏆️ Available Positions: 1
The Senior Finance Business Partner is a trusted advisor to the business and is expected to have strong interpersonal skills, capable of translating and presenting complex financial information clearly. You will provide valuable financial advice, strategic insights, and business solutions to directors and other budget holders.
You will support DVSA to deliver assurance on the financial position and performance of the Service/Business so that effective action is taken on a timely basis. This role will help ensure high quality financial management is embedded throughout the business and that regular, robust, timely financial information and insight is provided to key stakeholders to enable quality decision-making.
Top Responsibilities
* You will be a trusted advisor to the business and develop significant business expertise.
* You will build and maintain key relationships with internal and external stakeholders, manage senior managers' and stakeholders' expectations, and develop a deep understanding of the business's commercial and operational drivers.
* You will carry out sufficient analysis and challenge to demonstrate Business and Medium-Term plans are affordable within Spending Review totals, are central case estimates and represent value for money.
* You will provide strategic insight through your deep understanding of the financial data and the external / internal factors that influence the drivers of cost / income.
Benefits
* Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
* 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
* 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
* Access to the staff discount portal.
* Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
* Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
* 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
* Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
About You
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
* Leadership, and the ability to motivate and develop a diverse finance team and promote excellence.
* Ability to influence at all levels of the business, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups,
* A confident communicator, comfortable with advising and challenging senior stakeholders, including communicating complex financial issues to into layman’s terms for non-specialist audiences.
* Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data and reporting, and collaborating with colleagues to develop additional reporting as required.
How to Apply
👉 Read the full description and apply at CS Jobs using the link provided.
This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Tuesday 31st March 2026