Fictional candidate — not a live person
Application pack — Finance Business Partner (sample)
1. Brief we would have received
Target: Finance Business Partner, local government or housing, South East / remote, £50k–£65k. Must keep current employer unnamed on public boards.
2. Twenty-role list (abridged — paid pack is 20 live URLs)
- County council FP (DSG) — pick
- Housing association FP — pick
- NHS division accountant — skip (nights / on-call)
- University faculty partner — pick
- Charity restricted-funds BP — longlist
The paid pack names 20 live URLs and close dates. This dummy does not, so it cannot be submitted by mistake.
3. Tailored CV (compressed)
Alex Reed FCCA · Milton Keynes
Profile and three bullets as on the sample page. Full CV in a paid pack is 2 pages, advert keywords in the first 8 lines, employment dates intact.
4. Person-spec map
| Essential criterion | Evidence used |
|---|---|
| CCAB / equivalent | FCCA, membership current |
| Partnering budget holders | 11 managers, two-page pack, variance 6.4% → 1.9% |
| Written reports for DLT | Recovery tracker used in a director meeting |
| Excel / finance system | Named system in paid pack; sample uses “the ledger” |
5. Interview reports (two included after real invites, within 90 days)
Likely questions: how you challenge a head of service; a DSG overspend; a time a forecast was wrong. Eight written answers in each paid report. This dummy stops here.