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Alex Reed — Finance Business Partner pack
This person does not exist. The advert is a composite of typical UK local-government FP criteria. A paid five-role pack now includes a 20-role hunt, 8–10 STAR answers, a person-spec map, LinkedIn rewrite and two interview reports. This dummy shows the shape: fit note, tailored CV extract, statement opening, two STAR answers, form checklist, tracker row.
Sample — not a live application
Fit note (from the 10-role list)
Role 03 of 10 — Finance Business Partner (DSG / schools), English county council, closing Friday. Matches: partnering, budget holder challenge, DSG exposure, CIPFA/CCAB. Stretch: no published schools-forum paper in the last 12 months — we would write the statement around budget challenge and DSG recovery, not around forum papers.
CV extract (tailored)
Alex Reed FCCA · Milton Keynes · alex.reed.sample@example.com
Finance Business Partner with 8 years in a group finance desk. Turns budget holder packs into decisions: forecast variance, DSG-style ringfence discipline, and a written challenge note the budget holder can sign.
- Built a monthly partner pack covering £18m of cost centres; cut unexplained variance from 6.4% to 1.9% in two quarters.
- Wrote the recovery tracker a director used in a budget challenge meeting — actions dated, owners named, no extra slides.
- Coached 11 non-finance managers to complete their first forecast without a late return.
Supporting statement opening
I am applying because the person specification asks for a partner who will sit with budget holders, not a reporter who emails a pack and leaves. In my current desk I own the monthly conversation for eleven managers. The evidence is in the two numbers they now look at first: forecast variance, and overdue recovery actions. The rest of this statement maps each essential criterion to a named piece of work.
STAR — Leading and communicating
Situation. A service lead refused to sign a Q2 forecast because the pack was 14 pages.
Task. Get a signed forecast in 5 working days without dropping audit evidence.
Action. I rebuilt the pack to two pages, put the variance table on page 1, and sat with the lead for 25 minutes on the three lines they actually owned.
Result. Forecast signed on day 4. The same two-page format is now the local standard for that directorate.