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Finance Business Partner

£45,000 - £50,000 per annum

Why we’re recruiting for this role

We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner who works to the Head of Business Partnering and alongside our different business directorates, providing financial information, tools, analysis and insight to executives, challenging their thinking, helping them make more informed decisions and driving business strategy. Their role is to provide 'real time' support and analysis, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making.

 

Finance business partners are an important bridge between the Finance function, management and other areas of the business. They deliver financial information, tools, analysis and insight to executives across the business that equips them with the information they need to make informed decisions that align with company objectives. The Finance Business Partner role is important in providing the insight that allows managers to challenge, coach and motivate their teams.

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Finance Structure Chart

What you’ll be doing

  • Own the end-to-end processes behind budgeting, forecasting and complex financial modelling, working alongside and supporting the Management Accountant.

  • Preparing management accounts and supporting analysis and narrative for presentation to the Executive Team and Board

  • Review business development activity and analyse contracts that are classed as high risk.

  • Lead on the streamlining of data and reporting and enhance efficiencies across the department.

  • Provide strategic direction to the team and ensure this fits with the organisations objective.

  • Communicate regularly with key Business Partners.

  • Oversee the delivery of key, high value contracts.

  • Promote cross functional partnership across the organisation.

  • Other duties as requested by the line manager

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What qualifications we’d expect you to have

This role requires a qualified accountant with a CCAB recognised qualification (eg ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) and experience of business partnering.

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What skills you’ll have

  • Excellent analytical and communication skills both written and verbal

  • Ability to manage staff effectively, to produce required outputs

  • Ability to plan and manage own workload to meet deadlines. The level of detail to be commensurate with the need for the work and resources available.

  • Ability to work flexibly

  • Ability to maintain focus and drive to resolve issues

  • Able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines

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What you’ll be experienced in

  • Strong financial modelling skills

  • Be a confident communicator, proactive and have excellent Excel skills

  • Highly IT literate, comfortable operating and learning new systems

  • Previous experience as a Finance Business Partner

  • Experience of dealing with senior managers both financial and non-financial

  • Experience of explaining financial concepts to non-financial staff

  • Experience of bringing financial information together with non-financial information and providing quality management accounts

  • Experience of working in a complex financial environment with various income streams and volatility of costs across a number of business units

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How you act

  • Professional

  • Collaborative and supportive

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Your qualities and attitude

  • Inspiring. Inspires confidence and motivates high-performing teams to follow their example. Supports people to grow in their careers.

  • Driven. Constantly seeks improvement, both in themselves and in their team. Is willing to test and learn from new approaches and is intellectually curious. Focuses on solutions, seeking to make a positive difference.

  • Collaborative and flexible. Works together with colleagues to achieve the common goals of the organisation and is pragmatic about the need to be flexible.

  • Relationship builder. Has the interpersonal skills to build strong and effective relationships across the organisation and externally.

  • Credible. Has the technical knowledge and speaks with gravitas, bringing expertise for the benefit of the whole organisation. Is assertive in raising their view but listens to others’ perspectives.

  • Adaptable. Reacts to the changing landscape with positivity and can adapt to new ideas, and new ways of working, for the benefit of the organisation.

  • Committed. Commits to the objectives and values of the organisation, including the need to promote and support equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.

  • Awareness. Awareness of, and comfort with, AUK-BLF funding medical research which may on occasion involve animal research.

  • Agile. Comfortable working within a fast paced environment where priorities may change.

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Details of the role

  • This is a full-time role, Monday-Friday, 35 hours per week.

  • It will be offered as a Permanent contract

  • Occasional travel may be required as we have staff based across the UK

  • Occasional overnight stays away from home.

  • Occasional attendance at meetings and events during evenings and weekends.

  • We are currently operating a hybrid working environment with a mixture of office and homeworking in line with government pandemic requirements.

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What we offer in return

Our benefits include:​

  • 30 days holiday per year, plus public holidays

  • Health cash plan cover

  • Employee Assistance Programme advice and support scheme

  • 4 times salary life assurance

  • 5.5% employer pension contributions

  • Bike to work scheme

  • Flexible working – we believe that it’s important for us to work flexibly so we’re supportive of working from home and in the office.

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