Schools Finance Business Partner

Salary: £55,581
Grade: Level 5, Zone 1
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 36, Full Time
Closing Date: Wednesday 3rd June 2026; 23:55

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because, we’re not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. The Finance service in Camden has an ambitious vision to ensure delivery of a high-quality, value- added service with excellent financial controls. We will do this through an exciting journey of change, challenge, and innovation.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

You will be responsible for providing strategic insight across Education Finance and will work closely with senior management teams and other stakeholders to provide excellent financial advice, support, and challenge across a wide range of financial related matters.

You will be responsible for strategic and operational advice and support to operational business managers and school bursars across the range of financial specialisms, to ensure that they can carry out their financial duties effectively.

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All About You

Part qualified in CCAB or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.

Ability to interpret government regulations and similar documents, apply logic and judgement is essential.

Good understanding of the issues that affect schools financing including government and local regulations and procedures

Ability to build trusted working relationships across the organisation and the skills to influence key stakeholders in their decision making, helping to provide a solution focus to service and drive service improvements via financial insight.

The right individual will also have exceptional communication skills and experience of communicating complex financial information to key stakeholders both verbally and in writing.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.