Finance Business Partner - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Butler Rose Ltd

Butler Rose Ltd

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The focus of this role is to manage a team of finance staff in building partnerships with senior management stakeholders across the university on a cross-section of financial, accounting activities and projects.

The aim is to drive impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance and analysis, enabling a link to financial data to inform business strategies.

Responsibilities:

Lead and develop the team of Assistant Finance Business Partners (x2) and a clerical support team
Lead the finances for Client separate legal entity including oversight of P&L, B/S and cashflow with responsibility for the preparation of Clients Board quarterly papers.
Be the first point of contact for bids, tenders, and new partnership opportunities, working closely with CLS (Client's legal team/lawyers) and tax specialists
Build and lead relationships with budget holders and stakeholders
Lead, challenge and manage the budgeting monitoring, forecasting and financial planning
Supporting strategic and tactical projects and proposals as appropriate
Financial systems management
Year-End guidance and support to key Client stakeholders

Skills, Experience & Background

Must be a qualified CCAB/CIMA Accountant and be able to prove their membership.
Ideally come from a commercial background (sales and marketing), be comfortable with robust discussions and decision making and potentially have some awareness of international trading, contracts or partnerships.
It's key that the individual is approachable but backed up by strong partnering, analytical and communication skills.
Experience of SAP and/or complex systems is beneficial but not essential.
Excellent team development and leadership skills
Intermediate to advanced level Excel experience
Experience of systems development
Excellent negotiation, facilitation and conflict resolution skills
Excellent knowledge and understanding of budget planning, forecasting and monitoring and financial accountancy processes

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.