Senior Finance Business Partner - Custodial

Senior Finance Business Partner – Custodial

Location: Flexible / Hybrid – requirement for travel to various locations including London/Hook

Competitive base salary + Bonus + Company car or car allowance + PMI x2 and 10% contributory pension

Division: Justice & Immigration

At Serco, we deliver essential services that make a real difference to people and communities. We are now looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Justice & Immigration business, supporting our evolving Custodial portfolio.

This is a highly visible and commercially focused leadership role where you will partner with senior operational leaders across our custodial estate, helping to drive performance, influence strategic decision-making and support sustainable growth.

About the role

As Senior Finance Business Partner, you will provide dedicated commercial and financial support across our portfolio of prison contracts operating in a complex and highly regulated environment across England.

You will act as a trusted advisor to operational and contract leaders, translating financial and operational data into clear insight that drives performance, efficiency and better decision-making. A key part of the role is ensuring contracts remain financially on track, identifying risks and opportunities, and influencing stakeholders to take appropriate corrective action.

This role requires regular engagement on site, and candidates must be comfortable visiting prisons and working within secure environments.

Key responsibilities

• • Collaborating with the financial services hub to ensure accuracy of financial records, compliance and financial plans that the hub produce.
  • Act as a trusted, visible and accessible point of contact to business leaders; providing strategic, commercial and financial decision making.
  • Drive commercial and operational efficiency improvements through data-led insight and analysis.
  • Ensure budgets are aligned with business direction and that there are plans in place to achieve committed financial targets.
  • Translates complex financial data into compelling narratives tailored to diverse audiences.

What you’ll need

• • Preferably qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
  • Strong Finance Business Partnering experience in complex, operational or service-led environments
  • Experience in FM, custodial, public sector, infrastructure or similarly workforce-intensive environments is highly beneficial
  • Ability to operate confidently in stakeholder environments where financial literacy varies significantly
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
  • Experience working with large, complex contracts and operational delivery teams
  • Strong analytical capability and ability to turn data into actionable insight
  • Comfortable working in secure environments and visiting prison sites
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills

Additional requirements

· Ability to achieve DBS & BPSS clearance required

Why Serco?

At Serco, you will have the opportunity to work on meaningful services that impact thousands of lives every day. We offer a collaborative and supportive environment, opportunities for career development and the chance to make a genuine difference within a growing and evolving business.

If you are a commercially minded finance leader looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. 

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.