Finance Business Partner - Falkirk, United Kingdom - Page Personnel - UK

Page Personnel - UK

Verified Company

Falkirk, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Permanent Finance Business Partnering role

Central Belt, progressive role in a growing organisation

About Our Client:

Leading organisation across the UK.

To work in partnership with the service areas to provide specialist and detailed financial advice and decision support to budget managers in delivery of organisational priorities.
To deliver accurate and robust financial management information for specified budget areas within set timescales.
To ensure the integrity and development of management accounting information systems and processes.

Business Partnering and Decision Support

Provide detailed specialist financial and accounting advice to finance and non finance managers across a range of disciplines, assisting managers, clinicians and support staff in understanding and addressing complex and challenging financial operating, governance and policy issues.
Build and maintain effective working relationships with managers and clinicians to support budget holders in delivering best value for money. Ensure that financial and budgetary implications of proposed changes including business case proposals are fully analysed and assessed based on specialist knowledge, and that associated financial risks are identified and highlighted.
Deliver complex financial messages to nonfinancial managers, including those which may be contentious and sensitive, ensuring they are clearly interpreted and understood.
Support the delivery of best value for money and efficiency savings utilising cost benchmark data and specialist finance / service knowledge to identify and recommend areas of potential cost reduction, capacity gain or cost avoidance. Effectively monitor cost savings against an agreed baseline and provide reports in a consistent format to be collated area wide.

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Planning and Forecasting
Input to the financial planning strategy over the medium term years) by providing detailed costing information for specified workforce and non pays areas based on future service model scenarios and delivery of required efficiencies. Identify both recurring and non-recurring implications on both revenue and capital streams.

This will require analysis, interpretation and judgement based on range of highly complex facts, scenarios, multiple data sources and trends in meeting objectives.

Prepare inyear financial forecast outturns in liaison with Senior Finance colleagues, General Managers and Service Managers, making appropriate assumptions as required and highlighting risks to achievement of financial balance and recommending appropriate remedial action.

Financial Management

Prepare, monitor and explain complex budget and performance monitoring reports within strict deadlines including variance analysis and financial forecasts, ensuring that information is complete and accurate, that financial pressures and risks are highlighted as appropriate, and that mitigating corrective actions are put in place as required.
Ensure that budgetary control measures, accounting processes and reporting procedures are followed consistently within best practice and / or local standing financial instructions and financial operating procedures. Advise and guide others on the appropriate implementation of complex financial policies and procedures. Recommend changes and updates to financial policy where appropriate.
Lead the development of management information tools, reports and systems to ensure reporting requirements are met, continuously improved, and adapted as required. This will involve the design, implementation and control of complex spreadsheets, systems and financial reports.
Lead delivery of financial information in support of national annual returns and projects.

The Successful Applicant:

Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies (CCAB), CIMA or an overseas equivalent qualification and three years' post qualification experience preferably in a public sector finance environment.
Excellent communications skills with ability to provide detailed advice and guidance on complex finance issues effectively to staff and third parties, many of which will be from a nonfinancial background.
Highly developed and indepth specialist knowledge and expertise of accounting principles, financial operating procedures, and accounting protocols.
Self motivated, using own initiative to complete tasks.
Highly developed IT skills, especially with computer based financial ledgers and spreadsheet / word processing.

What's on Offer: