Budget Finance Manager – Glasgow Based

The Commercial and Finance team are seeking a Budget Finance Manager to ensure that the organisation tracks and forecasts Income and expenditure and improve forecasting analysis to ensure Value for Money solutions.

You will be responsible for producing and reporting the financial position to the Business and into department Finance Business Partners to support their needs. You will provide insight and highlight the key issues, risks and opportunities to enable robust decision making. Using continuous improvement principles, ensure that management reporting meets end user needs and is presented to best convey the key messages.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead the preparation, interpretation and presentation of in-year financial information into the monthly financial reports
• Strategic Review of the Budget, assessment of income and expenditure costs, improving the finance tracking process with continuous improvement initiatives across the function
• Management and governance of the Spend approvals process
• Support across key financial processes including reconciling and resolving invoices.
• Continued development of management reports and operate KPI tracking
• Report on spend categories, implement savings targets and KPIs
• Develop efficiency planning and track benefits savings across the operational and investment programmes
• Financial insight to the Business, Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
• Draw insights from financial reporting and other complex information, translating policy proposals and strategic objectives into financial impact, risks and opportunities and communicating these clearly to senior audiences.

Key requirements:

• Structured and organised with first-class analysis experience
• Problem-solving capabilities, able to build relationships and influence people
• Ability to pro-actively manage your own workload and to manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities to deliver effective outcomes
• Demonstrate process management skills with the ability to communicate across a varied team
• Good analytical skills with the ability to design and develop performance metrics
• Experience working with closely with commercial teams operations
• Development and delivery of operational reports to a high standard
• Experience in central government financial management, financial analysis, and financial planning (desirable)

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the equivalent PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information.