Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

£41,500 per annum

Permanent, Full time (37 hrs) 

Flexible working opportunities 

Closing date: midnight, 31 October 2021

Interview date: w/c 8 November 2021 (interviews will be held via video link)

The role

Our client now has an opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join them to provide a comprehensive management accounting service to managers, executives and the board, with particular emphasis on financial control and performance improvement.

The role is likely to involve some of the following responsibilities;

• Provide a finance business partnering service to managers, comfortable with challenge to ensure effective budgetary control
• Analysis of both financial and non-financial information leading to insights needed to improve the performance of the business
• Use financial management and planning tools to guide actions and help ensure the required impact is achieved
• Production of monthly reporting pack, including KPI’s and cashflow
• Preparation of forecasts / budgets for the whole organisation by preparing schedules, collating data and liaising with budget holders.
• Assist with the production of the annual accounts, including consolidated accounts. 

   

What they need

For this role you’ll need to have the following skills and experience;

• Minimum of 5 GCSE or ‘O’ level passes to include English and Maths, or equivalent
• Qualified or part qualified finalist in a recognised accounting qualification i.e. CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA etc.
• Able to extract unstructured data from relevant sources, collected and cleaned from its raw format and assembled into meaningful information
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal including the ability to influence at all levels
• Ability to work as part of a team but also able to use initiative and work with limited supervision
• Proactive team player who can turn around work to tight deadlines
• Excellent excel skills (Microsoft Dynamics knowledge or experience in having implemented a new accounting system desirable)

   

Candidates who are shortlisted will be required to complete a numerical and excel assessment prior to interview

Who they are

Our client is a not-for-profit housing association committed to providing affordable local homes for their customers. They have over 6,500 homes for affordable rent and shared ownership in Wiltshire, Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset and employ nearly 300 staff from their offices in Trowbridge and Melksham. Silcoa is our repairs and maintenance company. 

Please visit our website for further information.

What we offer

Our main benefits include;

• 27 holiday plus bank holidays
• 2 paid gifted days; one for your birthday and one over Christmas
• Buy / sell up to 5 days holiday
• Life assurance
• Competitive pension (you pay 4%, we pay 9%)
• Child care vouchers and cycle to work scheme
• Dress down Fridays (for office-based colleagues)