Finance Business Partner – Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like 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-rata) 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
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
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. CEF provides services to support vulnerable children, their families and education services, spending over £275m annually.
A second role arises in our corporate finance team where priorities include production of the County Council’s statutory financial accounts and 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 contribute to projects that deliver local and national change programmes such as SEND reforms, audit recovery and local government reorganisation.
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
About you
We’re looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated finance professional to bring energy and expertise to this role. As well as strong technical skills, you will be able to build relationships with heads of service and budget mangers to support the council in delivering its ambitions.
You will be a fully-or part-qualified accountant or AAT qualified, able to build effective relationships and to pro-actively manage a varying workload that requires input from a range of peers and customers. Experience of working within local government would be very useful, but any finance professional working at, or aspiring to work at, this level is welcome to apply.
About usCambridgeshire 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.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…