Post Title: Finance Business Partner
Contract type: Permanent
Rank/grade: F
Salary: Starting salary £53,760 + £7,160 London Weighting + £200 supplement
Directorate/department: Corporate Services / Finance
Vetting level required: MV/SC
Location: City of London Police estate within the square mile
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
Hybrid working - This Police Staff role adheres to Corporation of London’s hybrid working policy, which requires a 60% office attendance rate. The specifics of this will be discussed locally with your hiring manager if you’re successful for the role.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force.
About the team
It is an exciting time to join the Finance team. The team is being developed to provide an exceptional Finance service, supporting and enabling front line policing. This includes supporting transformational change, driving commercial opportunities and building strong relationships across the Force and with our partners.
About the role
We are looking for an excellent Finance Business Partner who will work directly with Directorate leads, budget holders, and other stakeholders to provide financial support, strategic insight and challenge to enable the maximisation of resources and the successful delivery of value for money services. The post holder will provide essential financial support to a range of Police services and the Force’s extensive capital programme. The responsibilities of the role include financial modelling, budget setting and monitoring and year-end closing of accounts.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- The lead financial advisor to allocated service area providing excellent finance business partner support and proactively engage with services to understand strategic direction, priorities and deliverables.
- A trusted partner in financial performance and commercial activities providing day-to-day financial advice to budget holders and senior management and prepare reports including the monthly financial position;
- Working with allocated services to understand key cost drivers, improving processes to provide useful analysis, and commercial and financial insights to support decision making.
- Overseeing the financial monitoring processes for allocated services to ensure accurate forecasting, early identification of pressures, savings and risks, the timely submission of monthly forecast information and the development of action plans.
- Overseeing the year end process, ensure compliance with appropriate accounting standards and treatments and ensure a directorate timetable is in place that meets corporate requirements and timescales.
Requirements
Your application will be scored against the criteria listed below for shortlisting. Please ensure that you reference your ability, knowledge and experience against these points in your application.
- CCAB qualified accountant or equivalent and significant post qualification experience to include at least one full annual financial cycle including production of revenue and capital estimates, budget monitoring and the closure of accounts.
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to provide high quality financial business partnering services to a complex service area.
- Excellent written communication skills and high attention to detail, in order to write a range of reports, financial analyses and business proposals for complex service areas.
- Extensive experience in a role providing financial business partner support to complex service areas, preferably within the Public Sector.
- Sufficient leadership skills in order to oversee, support and guide where appropriate the work of the Assistant Finance Business Partner, providing tailored development and feedback
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK. Due to security vetting requirements for this being MV/SC, applicants must have continuously resided in the UK for the 5years immediately preceding their application. Unfortunately, we are unable to progress applications that do not meet this requirement.
If you would like to discuss the role please contact:
Deputy Chief Finance Officer, Mark Paddon: Mark.Paddon@cityoflondon.police.uk or Senior Finance Business Partner, Jenna Brassett: Jenna.Brassett@cityoflondon.police.uk
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge align with the points listed above in the ‘Requirements Section.’
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, is permitted to review and edit application responses for spelling, grammar, and clarity. However, all responses must accurately reflect your own skills, knowledge, and experience and must not be generated by AI or contain plagiarised content. Applications found to include plagiarism or AI-generated content will be withdrawn.
The closing date for applications is 22nd November 2026 @23:59.
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held week commencing 14th December 2026
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Benefits:
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
- LGPS Pension Scheme -Local Government Pension Scheme explained - Which?
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme -Welcome to Blue Light Card
- Discounts within the Square Mile specifically for City of London Police employees
- Free access to our Force Gym (with dedicated time for female colleagues throughout the week), Personal Training Instructors with a range of specialisms, and a large variety of fitness and wellbeing programmes
- 29 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, increasing up to 34 days with continuous service
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