Finance Business Partner

Overview

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Finance Business Partner on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Key Accountabilities

• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become the trusted partner of the accountable leads.
• Effectively representing business partners in a wide range of stakeholder forums within the operating units.
• Ensuring that the services for business partners are delivered to the business rhythm in accordance with appropriate processes and systems.
• Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners.
• Ensuring the teams deliverables are:
• Produced to acceptable time, cost & quality, including but not limited to forecasts, budgets, procurement plans, reports and variance analysis.
• Produced to the required Business Rhythm.
• Ensure resource demand and supply issues are reported and communicated and the supported to drive an appropriate resourced position.
• Support, contribute, review and approve business cases
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads, customer budget holders and wider stakeholders, steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities.
• Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs.
• Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.
• Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications.
• Flexibility in undertaking duties unique to the needs of the business area and supporting the business to resolve complex problems.
• Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis to the business/budget holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, affordable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.
• Undertake scrutiny of business cases to ensure that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (eg legal, commercial) and through-life implications ensuring a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
• Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance.
• Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice.
• Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritising changes that will add the most value.
• Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas.
• Setting the direction, empowering, inspiring, motivating, and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual s personal development and careers.

Skills and Qualifications

• Previous finance business partnering experience.
• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal).
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Reporting writing and forecasting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Experience with Fusion/SmartView.
• SC Security Cleared.