Assistant Finance Business Partner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Government Property Agency

Government Property Agency

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £38,344 - £41,455

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
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Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
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Type of role:

Accountancy
Finance
Property
Working pattern:
Fulltime
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Job summary:

The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.

The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work.

The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda.

To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.

Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people.

Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices.

This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs.

Launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018, we're a relatively new department and we are growing fast so we also need people who thrive in ambiguity, can adapt quickly to change and are comfortable stepping outside of their remit to drive outcomes.

Job description:

The Assistant Finance Business Partner role in the GPA is integral to ensuring that the GPA's accounts are accurately recorded, producing insightful management information, forecasts and supporting the business and GPA clients to make informed decisions.

The Workplace Service Delivery AFBP will be responsible for working with suppliers and clients to ensure an accurate and robust month end process is followed, presenting financial information to regional management teams and providing suitable challenge and support to their decision making, contributing to the annual building budget process, contributing to process improvements within the team and working across GPA to resolve any client related issues.

Working across a diverse portfolio of projects and related overheads, the post holder will need to build key relationships across the business, ensuring accurate management accounting and providing analysis and analysis interpretation to key stakeholders.

This includes leading monthly regional business reviews and presenting at the Workplace Service Delivery monthly SLT meeting.

Key Responsibilities:

Producing management accounts for relevant budget holders
Supporting contract management for regional FM and Security supply chain contracts
Supporting resolution of Client finance issues, including annual budgets and scheduled and ad hoc invoicing
Preparing property reconciliations to ensure all expenditure has been fully recovered from tenants
Preparing balance sheet reconciliations including accruals and prepayments
Analysing financial performance to identify variances and ensuring transactions are accounted for correctly
Preparing and processing journals
Supporting internal and external audits
Facilitating forecasting and reporting
Identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the financial data
Ensuring Record to Report principles are embedded within the GPA
Producing financial reports for GPA clients
The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.

Person specification:

Experience & technical skills

Good experience of management accounting, ideally in a public sector context
Background in Facilities Management or Security contracts, either as a supplier or a client
Strong attention to detail and ability to analyse and interpret significant amounts of financial data
Good experience of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, ideally including MRI Horizon and/or Microsoft Business Central
Proficient using Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets, Anaplan and Microsoft PowerBI
Ability to communicate complex financial information to nonfinance stakeholders
Ability to work in a geographically dispersed team

Qualifications & accreditation's

Essential criteria:
CCAB equivalent accountancy qualification or working towards

Desirable criteria:
A further 1-3 years post qualified experience in an FM or public sector setting

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