Finance Business Partner - Chichester, United Kingdom - WSCC

WSCC

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Chichester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Opportunity Salary**:
£45,441 to £48,474 per annum

Working Pattern:
Full time, 37 hours per week

Location:
Based - County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home

Interview date:
March 2024

As a high calibre finance professional, you'll be used to working with big numbers. Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional financial skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?

We're looking for a finance professional with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to clients.

You will be responsible for advising and influencing the service to make informed financial decisions, which will have a direct impact on service delivery.

If you are looking for a diverse and exciting role which offers the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with the service, develop your talent and support senior officers by offering constructive challenge, assurance, recommendations and innovative solutions to add value to their service, then we would like to hear from you.

What are we looking for?
As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:

Strategic thinker
someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
Relationship manager someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
Critical friend someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Key Skills:

Excellent analytical skills in order to interpret complex and varied financial and/or performance information and develop practical plans, strategies and budgetary solutions with an awareness of performance outcomes.
Strong problem solving and decisionmaking skills with the ability to make sound pragmatic decisions that take into account the ongoing impact on performance and resources.
Strong customer focus with the ability to work as a key client contact and provide a professional service to meet their needs.
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills in order to interact effectively with a range of highlevel clients and create and maintain effective working relationships. Including the ability to challenge and influence clients to make financial decisions that they would not otherwise make, to promote understanding of technical information and to successfully advise and guide clients to make sound decisions which could have a significant impact.
Effective people management skills including performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams.
Ability to adapt to changing situations in a measured and flexible manner in order to adapt the service provided to respond to changes in circumstances whether legislative, structural, client related etc.

Qualifications and/or experience:

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or experience which demonstrates that level of applied and theoretical knowledge, plus knowledge of the related systems, procedures and policies.
Intermediate knowledge of MS Excel and comprehensive knowledge of either SAP finance or equivalent IT finance package. Sound and accurate overall IT knowledge including Microsoft Office.
Significant experience delivering a professional accountancy service with a highlevel accountability for resources on behalf of various clients.
Experience contributing to setting and monitoring budgets and plans for a specific service within a large organisation or for a small overall business.

Knowledge and experience of Adult Social Care budgets would be highly desirable.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this.

To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

- an excellent
local government pension scheme:

generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)

- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role

For a full list this can be found at our
Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information
The reference number for this role is
CRS00800.

Job Reference:
CRS00800