Finance Team Structure
Job purpose
The Finance Analyst is an essential part of a high-performing customer-focussed Finance Business Partnering team. The role supports the Finance Business Partners with all aspects of business planning and reporting for Sport England, ensuring the highest quality with an efficient process. As part of this, the role ensures compliance with a robust system of internal financial controls and Sport England’s requirements for managing public money.
Through the preparation of monthly reporting, insightful analysis and financial modelling they enable effective decision making.
There are two roles at this level working in partnership, collaborating, and providing coverage for all aspects of the work to ensure a holistic view on all financial aspects of their areas of responsibility.
Finance is a core and complex function within Sport England with multiple income streams, dual accounting treatment, management of public money complexity and subsidiary entities. The role will embrace the complexity enabling the business to meet its strategic objectives.
Dimensions
Key Stakeholders: Senior managers and budget holders, Finance team.
Key Duties and responsibilities
Business Planning and Reporting
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Create and maintain high quality, accurate management reporting and analytics including KPIs and dashboards.
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Support the Head of Finance Business Partnering and Finance Business Partners in the annual budget (circa £300million) setting process as well as monthly forecasts.
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Maintain and provide analysis of complex and business critical cash flow models for both Lottery and Exchequer funding streams ensuring highest standards of integrity and control are maintained.
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Maintain the organisation’s staff costs model, ensuring it accurately reflects organisational structure, cost base, and recruitment pipeline.
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Maintain directorate and programme budget trackers, providing analysis and insight to assist budget holders and Finance Business Partners manage spend.
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Provide support to the Finance Business Partners with analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business/directorate objectives and strategies.
Due Diligence
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Carry out due diligence on investment business cases and recommendations (procurement and grants), ensuring that they meet the organisations strategy, that financial impact is fully considered. Presenting findings to the Finance Business Partners or Head of Business Partnering.
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Perform due diligence on new and existing award programmes and other large contracts ensuring value for money and alignment with strategic objectives.
Financial Policy and Controls
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Support the Finance Business Partners with the provision of training and support on budgets, financial processes, and controls.
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Ensure that the organisation operates at the highest standards of propriety, integrity and control and understands the ramifications of not maintaining those standards.
Ad Hoc
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Work flexibly to carry out any other duties, including organisational wide projects as required, that are within the colleague’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably required.
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Follow Sport England’s policies and procedures in relation to other matters e.g., Health & Safety, Procurement and Financial control.
Person Specification
The additional skills, knowledge and experience required.
Essential
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ACA/CIMA/CIPFA/ACCA professional qualified accountant, or part qualified.
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Work collaboratively with team members and colleagues within a business partnering function.
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Eye for detail and willing to take ownership for the quality and accuracy of information presented.
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Proven experience of using a range of finance metrics and systems to set, monitor and analyse financial performance.
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Proven ability to be well planned and work effectively within a business partnering team under pressure, prioritising to ensure results are achieved and all deadlines are met.
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High proficiency in Excel
Desirable
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Experience of Oracle Netsuite.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order 1975). It will be necessary for a Disclosure to be made to the Criminal Records Bureau for details of any previous criminal convictions.
