Finance Business Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Provision of information: providing prompt and accurate budgets
• Lead Financial Support to projects: Providing financial information to support business plans for projects, lead other finance teams for the provision of detailed technical support.
• Management support and advice: Providing support with financial information and decision-making and business planning.
• Planning: Coordinating the financial planning cycle for all designated departments or Directorates and support/influence the wider overall production of the strategic plan covering a 3-5-year timescale.
• Partner Relationships: Will act as the lead to handle the relationship with external stakeholders and senior internal Budget holders, influencing and owning the key finance deliverables , requiring collaboration.

Requirements

• Technical / professional skills
• Recognised professional accountancy qualification appropriate to the role e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.
• Minimum of three years' management experience gained from working within a complex organisation providing expertise in a similar role
• Able to interpret sophisticated financial and statistical data, reason, evaluate, draw appropriate inferences to enable innovative problem solving and report and communicate with senior stakeholders with tact
• Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing and organisational change skills
• The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Some expertise in at least one of the following fields: strategic planning, performance management, risk management
• Knowledge of governance and assurance frameworks
• Behavioural / smart skills- excellent communications, engagement and active listening to the needs of the business units, asking the right questions
• Strategic and commercial acumen- understanding the economics of the organisation, and the business benefits and commercial realities from both the organisation's and the customers perspective.
• You should have experience of working for the Public Sector or highly regulated industries
• You must have lived and worked in the UK for 5 years
• Happy to undergo Security Clearance
• Our client cant sponsor work visa's