Finance Business Partner (12 Month Contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting senior stakeholders with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Providing effective financial management and challenge around organisational spend.
• Preparing monthly management accounts, including detailed variance analysis and insightful commentary.
• Managing the full month-end management accounting cycle from start to finish.
• Preparing and reviewing journals, accruals and prepayments, ensuring they are accurate and correctly uploaded to the finance system.
• Reviewing new business initiatives and providing financial assurance and input into business cases.
• Supporting the management of funding and income.
• Building strong relationships with senior budget holders and providing clear financial advice and challenge.
• Producing high-quality financial reporting and commentary to support decision-making.

The Person

We are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner with a strong grounding in management accounting and a proven ability to build effective relationships with senior stakeholders.

You will ideally be a qualified accountant, although finalists and candidates qualified by experience will also be considered.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Experience partnering with senior budget holders, ideally up to Director level.
• End-to-end experience across the management accounting and business partnering cycle.
• Strong month-end accounting knowledge, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Strong written communication, reporting and financial commentary skills.
• The confidence to provide financial challenge and assurance to stakeholders.
• Availability to start during September.

Public sector or not-for-profit experience is desirable but not essential; candidates from a private sector background with strong Finance Business Partnering experience are encouraged to apply.