About us

We are Britain’s national equality regulator and a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ national human rights institution.

We uphold people’s rights without fear or favour. We use the full force of our legal powers to defend people from unfair or unequal treatment and to challenge breaches of the law. We advise on developing laws and provide guidance, training and support to enable compliance.

We bring people together to create change. We work with employers, governments and a wide range of organisations, to promote understanding of equality and human rights and we support them to make improvements in practice.

Our new strategy for 2022-25 gives us a strong platform to show that we will use our powers to protect and promote equality and human rights, and that we have identified the main challenges in society where we can make a difference in our role as a regulator.

Overview of the role and responsibilities

We are a small, friendly team in the Commission’s Finance and Procurement directorate. Our team’s role, and the Finance Business Partner roles in particular, are vital to challenge and support the wider business to manage its budgets and maximise the impact of its spend in challenging and dynamic financial circumstances.

Working as a Finance Business Partner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you will provide strategic support to budget holders operating in both corporate and delivery areas. In a small Non-Departmental Public Body, you will have the opportunity to get directly involved in a range of interesting and diverse work.  The role will provide the opportunity to influence and support key business functions as well as contribute to improving financial capability and decision making in the organisation.

As a Finance Business Partner you will use your financial professionalism to develop insight and understanding of our operations with the aim of supporting our objective of continual improvement in financial management.

You will:

• Provide an effective Business Partnering service to support senior management and budget holders in their budget management and forecasting responsibilities.

• Ensure month end activities are performed in a timely and efficient manner, including the preparation of accruals and prepayments, and providing assurance of financial commitment information.

• Provide monthly management accounts for directorates, review and challenge forecasts, provide narrative explanations of variances and highlight any emerging risks.

• Support the provision of high quality, timely management information and insight data, optimising the use of financial modelling and tools to support evidence-based decision making.

• Maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Work collaboratively with other Finance colleagues and other departments to ensure consistency of approach and alignment of financial plans with our overall financial strategy. 

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits including flexible working patterns, 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (full time FTE), access to the Civil Service Pension Scheme and partnership pension schemes, and enhanced parental leave benefits. More information can be found in the Candidate Pack.

How to apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please review the attached Candidate Pack or more information and submit your application today!

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Equality and Human Rights Commission offers an interview for people with disabilities (as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004) and who meet the minimum criteria for this appointment.

Where high numbers of applications are received, the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria for the role may only be invited to interview. If you wish to apply for consideration under this scheme, please complete the appropriate section on the online application form. This will enable us to make the appropriate arrangements, if necessary.

If you require an alternative accessible version of the application form or wish to discuss your application or reasonable adjustment – please contact us by email at Peoplehelpdesk@equalityhumanrights.com or by telephone on 0161 829 8100

Diversity in our workforce

At the Commission, we are proud of our respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background.  We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone to ensure we achieve a balanced representation in our workforce in all grades.