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Salary12 Month FTC - Finance Business Partner
An opportunity to be part of the Finance team which forms an important part of the Corporate Services business unit, which supports the organisation to meets it’s charitable objectives.
What you will be doing....
- As the Finance Business Partner, you will support the Director of Finance and IT by ensuring finance is at the heart of decision making, increasing financial knowledge, awareness, and transparency across the organisation, with a focus on forging good working relationships with Budget Holders.
- You will be a senior member of the finance team expected to contribute to the development of the finance function, including leading on system and process improvements.
- You will offer support to approximately 50 Budget Holders across the organisation, meeting with them at least quarterly to review their accounts and discuss upcoming projects. In addition you will train new Budget Holders, holding regular workshops on the budget/forecasting process.
- You will lead and manage the budget setting process, including calculation of recharges between various business units and departments and manage the quarterly forecast process, meeting tight deadlines to ensure forecasts are collected and reviewed ahead of the Finance Report being written (working day 12).
- You will have ownership of the pay forecasting process, verifying regularly with Budget Holders to ensure this is accurate throughout the year and especially at budget setting. Upload pay forecast into the finance system each month. Post payroll journal monthly from the report provided by the Payroll Manager, after making all necessary checks including project coding. There will be ad hoc pay modelling as required, for example, to determine affordability of certain pay structures.
- You will work with the Contracts & Procurement Manager to monitor new contract and other income. Ownership of the online portal used for our Budget Holders to access their management accounts, and for Finance to produce reports. Work with IRIS consultant to make improvements to the processes and reporting.
What you will offer....
- At least five years demonstrable experience in a similar role. This needs to include experience of modelling pay costs for an organisation with at least 100 employees
- Strong communication skills to be able to support and explain complex financial matters to a wide range of non-financial staff members
- Highly numerate, analytical and commercially-minded with intermediate Excel skills (Pivot tables and V-Lookups). Experience with Finance systems and report writing
- Pro-active mindset with focus on improving processes and applying a questioning mind to how we operate, always looking for a better way of doing things.
- Holder of an accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or studying towards one
What's in it for you...
- 12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover)
- Agile working - remote working with possible 1 day in the Leeds office
- 30 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays) per year
- Pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Travel season ticket loans
- Employee assistant
- Salary £43,000 - £44,290
