Senior Fianace Business Partner - London, United Kingdom - Altum Consulting

Altum Consulting

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Altum are proud to be working on this role Senior Fianace Business Partner-Public Sector Job description

Embedding Finance Business Partnering (FBP) in RoS

Continue to develop and embed the FBP approach at RoS ensuring we meet our strategic objectives and are financially sustainable now and in the long term.
Support senior managers and budget holders by providing specialist advice on key strategic financial management issues including budgeting and forecast outturns, financial planning, risk management, capital accounting and VAT compliance.
Design and manage the delivery of a Financial Training programme for RoS staff involved in Finance.
Ensure finance guidance documents are meaningful, accurate, up to date and in line with best practice to support our Budget Holders and our Budget Liaison Officers.

Managing and developing the Finance Business Partner team

Line management responsibilities of the Finance Business Partners including managing, supporting and continuing to develop the team and its role in RoS.

Owning the numbers

Lead the production of the monthly management accounts and investigate and report on significant budgetary variances. Recommend remedial actions required to deliver a balanced financial position and monitor the implementation of these actions.
Manage the annual and quarterly budget process including the production of key data and financial analysis in line with RoS / Scottish Government timetable.
Collaborate with the Financial Accountant to produce timely and relevant monthly financial and management reports to the Executive Management Team, Audit and Risk Committee, Board and the Scottish Government.
Support the financial management of functions and projects, inputting to business cases and developing an understanding of key cost drivers at the RoS consolidated level.
Collate, analyse, and present appropriate financial data for information and decisionmaking purposes as required e.g. Pay Remit, VAT returns, unit costing, Freedom of Information requests, Scottish Government returns.
Responsibilities for capital accounting in accordance with the relevant IFRS accounting standards, policies and procedures.
Support the preparation and delivery of the year end accounts and provision of supplementary accounting information.

Key member of the Senior Finance Leadership Team

Be a key point of contact for the Finance Business Partner team and other Finance Leaders, providing support and guidance and enabling improvements within the Finance function.
Work with others within the Finance team, in other functions at RoS and with outside agencies to continuously improve service provision.
Represent Finance at Governance boards and Senior Management meetings where required.
Cover for the Head of Finance (C1) as required.
Any other adhoc duties commensurate with the role/grade.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Collaborating and partnering / Leading and communicating
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate the strategic implications of complex financial issues. Effective at building and maintaining relationships with Budget Holders and Senior Management. Confident in challengingwhen required.

Building capability for all
Experience of managing, leading, and developing a team to its full potential. Confident building and implementing a finance capability plan for the organisation.

Delivering value for money
Demonstrates a commercial, financial, and sustainable mind set to ensure all activities and services deliver added value. Works collaboratively to ensure that RoS delivers its strategic outcomes within the resources available. Effective at influencing businesscases and decision making.

Delivering a quality service

Ability to work across teams, planning and driving forward longer-term work whilst managing shorter term demands to deliver to deadlines, and leading teams to deliver high quality outputs under pressure.

Analysis and making effective decisions

Strong analytical skills - able to provide constructive challenge, identify opportunities for improving and streamlining processes, and encouraging colleagues to think innovatively to make improvements.

Technical Skills

Qualified CCAB/CIMA accountant or qualified by experience
Competent in the use of finance systems
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Word

Benefits

We are a welcoming and inclusive community that functions on supportive practices
We offer a stimulating working environment and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission
Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success.
We work in an agile way with access to Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, UX specialists and more.
RoS offers a generous annual leave entitlement. Starting with
26 days of holiday plus 12 days bank holidays. We reward your commitment to us by increasing annual leave by +1 day per year, for up to +4 additional days on your entitlement.
We operate a
36 hour working week and offer flexible working arrangements(up to 30 hours flexi per month).
We offer
office locations in Edinburgh and Glasgowand we are in the process of
embedding hybrid working

As part of the reward package, you will get access to a generous
Civil Service pension, including service benefits, cycle to work scheme, family friendly leave policies (Maternity/Paternity Leave/Shared parental Leave/Special Leave & more), subsidisedgym memberships and retail discounts:
We offer continuous training and development opportunities
A generous salary range with pay progression arrangements are in place.
You will have access to external counselling and external advice.
We are a
Disability Confident employer.
We monitor equal opportunities and offer support where needed.