Finance Business Partner

I'm currently partnering with a large client based in Leeds operating across the healthcare sector seeking to recruitmore than one skilled and commercially focussed Finance Business Partner.

Client Details

This Leeds based organisation will see you using your accountancy skills and working at the heart of a complex and fast-developing industry contributing to sustainability across the healthcare sector.

This is a client that we have worked with for many years and have seen the careers of those whom we have placed develop and grow whilst maintaining a good work life balance.

Description

The Finance Business Partner is a key role within the Commercial Finance team based in Leeds providing full financial support, advice and insight for a wide range of high value projects and programmes. You will be helping to manage the finance elements of major contracts and services including delivering the following tasks:

• Advise on highly complex financial and corporate issues to finance and non-finance staff with internal and external stakeholders
• Create complex financial models, reports and presentations for the analysis and reporting for the contracts
• Identify, flag and monitor financial risks and opportunities to the relevant stakeholders
• Manages finance led projects - determines, monitors, and reviews all project economics, including costs, staffing requirements, project resources, and project risk, ensuring that there are appropriate and effective governance arrangements.
• Support the financial aspects of the negotiation of complex, high value new procurements and significant changes to existing contracts with suppliers
• Ensure costs with suppliers are adequately controlled and ensuring that payments are correct

Profile

As Finance Business Partner you will need to possess the following skills and experience.

• Qualified Accountant - ACA / CIMA / ACCA / CIPFA
• Excellent communication skills and experience of working and communicating complex matters with a range of stakeholders at different levels including delivering technical financial information to non finance staff.
• Strong IT skills including modelling experience with MS Excel
• Experience and proven track record of financially managing com.plex and high value budgets within a project environment.
• Ability to analyse variances of actual contract spend to budget, assess options and provide recommendations for resolution
• Experience of reading and identifying inconsistencies in legal contracts.
• Experience of working on large scale contracts, including:
• Procurement evaluation
• Financial Modelling and forecasting;
• Project Accounting;
• Open Book accounting and Contract Cost accounting.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues; share knowledge, best practice and lessons learned.
• Experience of managing a small team.

Job Offer

There are a number of roles at a number of different salary levels ranging from £35,000 - £45,000 depending upon experience. There is a good work life balance culture with generous holiday and pension schemes and lots of opportunity for career development and personal growth.