Finance Business Partner
| Job Type | Permanent / Full Time |
| Area | Hertfordshire, England |
| Sector | Accounting - Management Accountant |
| Salary | Competitive |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Susan Curran |
| Job Ref | 880817 |
| Job Views | 98 |
- Description
- This is a brilliant opportunity for a professional Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) to join an organisation who truly values their employees. The role will be assisting the Head of Finance to provide financial analysis and insight for the Senior Leaders and Executives.
Excellent benefits include:
28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Private healthcare
3 x Death in Service
Professional Membership Fees Paid
Annual Training and Development Fund
35 Hour Working Week
8% Non-contributory Pension
Hybrid Working (3 days on site)
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Business Partnering
- Provide regular and ad hoc management information and analysis to enable the leadership team to make key decisions
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders
- Provide a key link between the Finance Department and stakeholders
- Pro-actively liaise and work in partnership with key stakeholders to drive income and to support increased efficiency and cost management while maintaining strong corporate governance
- Challenge existing processes and working methods to deliver continuous improvement
- Assist stakeholders to prepare robust business cases and proposals to support new business opportunities
- Lead and/or contribute to finance related projects and initiatives as required
- Represent the Finance Department at cross-organisation forums and meetings
- Work closely with the Head of Finance to ensure that timely and accurate monthly management information is produced for stakeholders
- Liaise with stakeholders to ensure that the financial performance for their business area is adequately monitored and managed and that any issues are identified and resolved
- Attend monthly management accounts review meetings with budget holders as required
- Support, and provide detailed strategic and financial analysis for the preparation of long-term business plans, budgets and forecasts
- Manage the annual budget process
- Manage and/or support the quarterly forecasting process as required
- Co-ordinate and contribute to performance reporting requirements, such as KPIs and balanced scorecards
- Carry out data extraction and manipulation to provide financial analysis across all systems in the organisation, including:
- Sage 200
- ProDrive (Membership)
- QLMS (Qualifications)
- Work with the IT department to ensure maximum data integrity and accuracy
- Provide support to the Head of Finance as required
- Carry out other tasks and activities as required by the Head of Finance
- T. literate (MS Office)
- Qualified Accountant with at least 2 years post qualification experience in a commercial or not for profit environment
- Strong financial analysis and business partnering experience
- Experience using a range of financial and non-financial systems
- Hands on management accounting experience, ideally using Sage 200
- Expertise using data warehouse reporting systems to analyse/manipulate data to produce useful reports
- Accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)