Job summary
OurFinance Business Partner Teamprovides leaders and managers with high quality financial insight, analysis and guidance to enable effective and informed decision making. The team operates proactively and strategically, monitoring key financial risks and opportunities through robust financial data, modelling, and reporting covering period-end, forecasting, and budgeting. We are committed to driving strong financial acumen across the organisation to support our corporate objectives.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experiencedFinance Business Managerwith strong business partnering capabilities to support our portfolio ofChildren's Services, focusing on costing and reporting. The successful candidate will work closelywith the Assistant Director of Finance, contributing to all aspects of financial management and strategic financial support.
About us
We arecommitted to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide financial analysis and modelling for the Assistant Director of Finance to support them
in ensuring financial targets are monitored, reported against, variances are addressed and any changes that may impact medium term business strategy are incorporated into the budget,
forecast and monthly reports to the Regional / Nation Directors
- Contribution to the annual budget process and forecasting, within the financial year and longer
term including the uploading of budgets and forecasts.
- Support operational management of localities with resources for; budget reviews including
contribution to the annual budget process, forecasting within the financial year and longer
term.
- Support the development, implementation, monitoring and review all financial
and budgetary systems and procedures in accordance with financial standards
- Support the management of service contracts and tenders, in conjunction with locality ADCSs,
Business Development colleagues and Commercial team.
- Provide contract information on funding agreements for invoicing purposes, working alongside
Accounts receivables team.
- Support on providing data and documentation to both internal and external auditors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide financial analysis and modelling for the Assistant Director of Finance to support them
in ensuring financial targets are monitored, reported against, variances are addressed and any changes that may impact medium term business strategy are incorporated into the budget,
forecast and monthly reports to the Regional / Nation Directors
- Contribution to the annual budget process and forecasting, within the financial year and longer
term including the uploading of budgets and forecasts.
- Support operational management of localities with resources for; budget reviews including
contribution to the annual budget process, forecasting within the financial year and longer
term.
- Support the development, implementation, monitoring and review all financial
and budgetary systems and procedures in accordance with financial standards
- Support the management of service contracts and tenders, in conjunction with locality ADCSs,
Business Development colleagues and Commercial team.
- Provide contract information on funding agreements for invoicing purposes, working alongside
Accounts receivables team.
- Support on providing data and documentation to both internal and external auditors.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification)
Experience
Essential
- 2 years experience as working at managerial level within business partnering team, supporting budget holders.
- Providing managers with solutions to problems
- Understanding of the voluntary sector and government funding
- System literate, ideally with experience of Dynamics 365
- Producing budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts, including variance analysis
- Proven written and verbal communication skills, including with managers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification)
Experience
Essential
- 2 years experience as working at managerial level within business partnering team, supporting budget holders.
- Providing managers with solutions to problems
- Understanding of the voluntary sector and government funding
- System literate, ideally with experience of Dynamics 365
- Producing budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts, including variance analysis
- Proven written and verbal communication skills, including with managers.