Finance Business Partner

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Lisburn, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner for an initial 6-month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £23.65/hour PAYE – working 36.25 hrs per week. This role will be based fully on site.

Responsibilities:

• To deliver a complete financial management service to specified directorates within the organisation and play a key role in the organisation's overall financial management.
• To oversee the financial governance of specified Directorates, ensuring financial regularity, compliance and value-for-money within a framework of excellent customer service and continuous improvement.
• To support the senior management team within specified Directorates, reporting regularly to the Director as the lead customer.
• Ensuring Directorates’ senior management are provided with sound and challenging advice on their plans, using knowledge and data-led insight to ensure value for money outcomes will be achieved, aligned to strategic objectives.
• Work effectively with the Strategic Financial Management team to provide high-quality, data-driven insight and intelligence.
• To perform a lead role as custodian of the organisation’s budget.
• To provide a challenge function to senior management in respect of financial decision making and governance to ensure value for money, compliance with the principles
• To ensure the day-to-day implementation of cultural change across the Service with respect to devolved budgeting by advocating best practice financial governance.
• To act as the key liaison between devolved and corporate finance to ensure consistency and compliance with strategic decision-making.
• To ensure that budget holders are clear on their delegated budgets and savings targets, working proactively with budget holders to identify and develop appropriate forecasting methodologies to provide improved information to budget holders.
• To promote a high level of financial awareness and financial management across the Directorate, managing the design, development, planning and delivery of training products to meet learning requirements.
• To provide comprehensive financial management support to specified Directorates, including monthly reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, scenario planning and costing of service developments.
• Providing data-led and insight-driven business partnering, working with Directorates to improve their understanding of their cost drivers to drive effective use of resources and help deliver savings and efficiencies from budgets.
• Produce monthly variance analysis reports which review actual financial performance against budgeted levels to ensure that a robust challenge function is applied to directorates and strong financial management principles and controls are applied and maintained.
• Preparing accurate monthly financial forecasts of year-end outturn, developing strategies for achieving breakeven and managing associated risks for reporting to the Board and the Department of Health.
• To use complex analytical skills to develop and prepare key management reporting and information to inform decision-making and the achievement of business objectives.
• To provide specialist ad hoc financial guidance and advice, playing a key role within the senior management of specified directorates.
• To support procurement activities, acting as liaison between Directorates and the Procurement function.
• To review and authorise payments within predetermined limits, including the transmission of BACS payments, handling cheques and petty cash
• Business Planning
• To undertake any other duties which may be assigned to meet organisational need and the change agenda and which are reasonably regarded as within the nature of the duties, responsibilities and grade of the post as defined.

Essential Skills:

• Qualified accountant and a current member of a CCAB recognised body.
• At least two years post-qualification* experience providing a comprehensive management accounting & analysis service to senior management.
• Experience in data transformation experience would be highly advantageous
• Strong analytical ability with experience of analysing and interpreting financial information for the purposes of effective financial management, performance management and/or process improvement.
• Experience of presenting financial information and advice to Senior Management in a clear and user-friendly manner in support of strategic decision making.
• Experience of exercising sound judgement in providing financial advice, balancing the need to challenge and support teams appropriately.
• Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills and have worked with a diverse range of stakeholders achieving successful outcomes.
• Strong IT skills to include experience using Excel at an advanced level.
• Can demonstrate:
• i. Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• ii. Deliver high quality work with excellent attention to detail.
• iii. Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
• iv. Ability to work accurately under pressure of multiple deadlines.
• v. Strong inter-personal and influencing skills.
• vi. A strong customer orientation.
• Possess a current driving licence or have access to a form of transport to meet the requirements of the post in full.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of working in a finance function in the Public Sector.

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