Interim Finance Business Partner (DSG)

Job Opportunity – Interim Finance Business Partner (DSG & General Fund) – 6 Months +

A local authority client of mine are currently on the lookout for an Interim Finance Business Partner with DSG/General Fund experience to join their team on an initial 6 months contract

Job Role: Interim Finance Business Partner (DSG & General Fund)

Contract Duration: 6 Months (very to extend further)

Location: London

Rate: DOE

IR35: Inside IR35.

Hybrid: Minimum X1 day in office per week.

Days: 5 days per week (can also consider part time).

Earliest Start Date: ASAP

Main duties:

• Finance business partnering and working closely with the education service.
• DSG responsibilities.
• Home to school transport, working with the SEND teams.
• Awareness of technical recruitment, funding streams, how funding works etc.
• Support the Senior Finance Business Partner with workloads.
• This isn’t a technical role as the council already have people dealing with payments, invoices. Managing inboxes etc.
• This role will be talking to stakeholders, signing off reports, seeing if budgets are available, helping them forecast, drafting financial implications, seeing if the governance is there, being up to date with what is going on within DSG etc.
• This is a purely hands on role, not strategic, and there will not be any management responsibilities.

Candidates:

• Must have specific finance business partnering experience within DSG & General Fund.
• Ideally would have a minimum of 1 years local authority experience within the above.
• Do not necessarily need to be fully qualified, happy considering part qualified as well as candidates who are qualified by experience.

The client will be looking to host interviews Friday this week (17/07/26) therefore if you match the above criteria and are interested then please don't hesitate to reach out and send your CV or call me on (phone number removed).