Job Overview
The Finance Service in Cambridgeshire is focused on stewardship of funds on behalf of local taxpayers and promoting value for money across the County Council. We are a diverse team of finance professionals which is highly regarded across the organisation. We are looking to recruit up to two Finance Business Partner roles offered as either a fixed term contract or internal secondment for a 15-month period. One role will primarily provide advice and challenge to the County Council’s Children, Education & Families (CEF) directorate, which supports vulnerable children, their families, and education services, spending over £275 m annually.
A second role arises in our corporate finance team where priorities include production of the County Council’s statutory financial accounts, responding to external audit, monitoring and expenditure governance for our assets and investment programme, and accountancy and funding implications of local government reorganisation. The successful candidate(s) will support a range of activities, such as business partnering a portfolio of services or contributing to projects that deliver local and national change programmes such as SEND reforms, audit recovery and local government reorganisation.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for providing finance business partnering support to a portfolio of council services, and for being the business partner to several heads of service and budget managers. This will include managing finance support to services through the whole financial cycle, from medium-term financial planning and budget setting, to in-year financial monitoring, to accounts production.
Interviews are likely to take place in the weeks commencing 11th / 18th May 2026. For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact us at: finance@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Qualifications & Experience
We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated finance professional who is fully or part-qualified accountant or AAT qualified. The candidate should have strong technical skills, be able to build relationships with heads of service and budget managers, pro-actively manage a varying workload that requires input from a range of peers and customers, and ideally have experience working within local government. However, any finance professional at or aspiring to work at this level is welcome to apply.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Cambridgeshire County Council is a Disability Confident employer. We generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role, as defined by the employer. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups, helps us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment process so that we can take meaningful action.
About Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a range of benefits in addition to fundamentals such as annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage.
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rated) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.
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