Finance Business Partner - Immediate Start

Finance Business Partner 

Locations: Home-working (with limited travel as required)

 Salary: £40,722 

9 Months FTC

Our client is recruiting for an accomplished Finance Business Partner on a 9- Month Fixed Term Contract who will provide commercial insight and technical financial skills to support the Group with achieving its objectives.

Please note - an immediate start is required for this opportunity

What will you be doing?

As a Finance Business Partner, you will partner with Heads of service and senior managers in business area/s to provide commercial insight and technical financial skills, supporting the business area/s to deliver growth initiatives, process improvement, margin enhancement and commercial opportunities. 

Key activities will include:

• Advising, guiding and influencing business managers on the management of financial challenges and opportunities

• Undertaking financial modelling, scenario planning, business case preparation and option appraisal to support, effective decision making, improving business performance.

• Effectively managing relationships with business managers and other stakeholders

• Developing and owning financial business planning and analysis for specified areas of the business.

• Owning, preparing and delivering business performance insight and reporting, ensuring outputs are easily understood and fit for use

• Collaborating with both finance and operational colleagues to identify, investigate and implement remedial action to address issues impacting on financial and business performance.

• Inputting into statutory, regulatory or other external reporting as required

• Overseeing and accountable for financial activity, reporting and practices for specified areas of the business ensuring they are subject to regular review.

• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities

• Being the liaison into finance to meet the needs of the business

What are they looking for? 

What matters most to our client is that you own the work you do to achieve impact by delivering results and creating trust with our customers.  They want you to be able to do this with pride and passion for them. They also want you to have fun along the way!

In addition, you will have a good standard of general education and hold a professional accounting qualification (E.g. Certified or Chartered Accountant).  You will have previously worked in a Business Partner role, be commercially aware with an ability to solve problems, think strategically and drive change.

You will be able to communicate effectively and influence all levels of the organisation.  You will also have strong analytical skills, attention to detail and able to provide meaningful business insight.

You will have a proven track record of building successful relationships with senior stakeholders and extremely strong analytical skills with the ability to provide meaningful business insight.

You will be able to work under pressure to deliver against strict deadlines and manage priorities.  Also, you will have utilised technology and data with an eagerness to develop your own skills along with an excellent record of coaching and developing others in your team.

Ideally, you will have some experience of working in the regulated social housing sector

What can you expect from our client? 

They offer a salary of  £40,722 per annum for a 35 hour week, 25 days annual leave (raising annually to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays.  They also have a reward package to suit everyone – from a variety of retail discounts to a contributory pension scheme where we will match your contributions up to 9%. 

So if you want to be part of the team that makes a real positive difference every day and work for an organisation that prioritises its people and its customers then we want to hear from you!

This is a full time, 9-Month Fixed Term Contract (35 hours per week) role.  Due to Covid-19 this role will be undertaken remotely but will need to be able to travel to or around Yorkshire when required so likely to be based around Leeds, Bradford, Hull, Sheffield.

The closing date for applications will be Tuesday 26 January