Finance and Planning Business Partner

Location: Boston Spa

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: A

Salary: £40,212 per annum

This is the starting salary for this role, unless the successful candidate is able to evidence being in receipt of a higher salary, in which case this may be reviewed.

About the role

The British Library is embarking on a period of exciting transformation, with high-profile capital projects, ambitious digital programmes, and initiatives to grow and diversify our income and audience. We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to put finance at the heart of decision making, providing advice and support to stakeholders on strategic and operational decisions. This will include oversight, guidance, and challenge to senior officers and programme managers, as well as input and expert advice on business cases.

The role will ensure the business understands and delivers against risk management, finance policies, and performance KPIs through agreed change initiatives and operational areas.

You will have proven Finance Business Partner experience and capability in working with senior leaders across the organisation, providing leadership from a finance perspective.

You will have the ability to interpret financial and performance information in layman's terms as a basis for advising management and recommending courses of action, including the ability to translate the numbers into a business story. As well as an innovative and proactive approach to exploiting change opportunities and promoting best practice.

You will be assisted in this with generous training opportunities, supportive colleagues, and ongoing guidance to help you flourish in the role.

For more information, please refer to the Job Profile.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

• Access to a defined-benefit Civil Service pension scheme.
• Flexible working arrangements, including flexi-time.
• 25 days' holiday plus 2.5 privilege days.
• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits

Things you need to know

• We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.
• Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check (DBS check).
• Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn.
• We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.

Closing date: 23:59 on 25 October2026

If you have any questions, please contact: BL-recruitment@bl.uk