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SalaryAre you a qualified Senior Finance Business Partner and you are looking for your next opportunity?
My client in the public sector is expanding and are looking to add 5 Senior Finance Business Partners to their large team.
The role will be offered on a fulltime permanent basis and the successful candidate will need to undergo CTC level vetting so it wont be an immediate start.
You will be based in North London and a in typical week, you would be in the office 2 – 3 days with the remainder from home. You may be required to attend other sites as meetings require and depending on the location of the business group you are supporting.
They have some excellent benefits including 27.9% employers pension contribution.
It is essential that you are a CCAB qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA/CIPFA). Previous experience in the public sector will be valuable but by no means essential.
You will support the Strategic Finance Business Partner in ensuring that they achieve value for money and maximise value from the services it delivers while meeting the needs of the Business. This will be achieved by providing insight, challenge and professional analytical support at both strategic and operational levels, highlighting potential risks/opportunities and identifying options to drive continuous cost reductions and performance improvement within a reducing budget envelope. This includes:
- Supporting the Strategic Finance Business Partner in providing the Executive with value added and timely analysis regarding actual results and forecasts, proposing options to ensure the organisation achieves its operational goals, whilst continually reducing costs and transforming services.
- Building strong relationships with the Business Groups in order to influence and deliver value through the implementation of the financial strategy.
- Support the Strategic Finance Business Partner with the design, build and maintenance of costing models that address structure and service issues. The analysis should address the commercial needs of the business and focus on identifying areas of improvements, controlling spend and continually analysing critical categories of expenditure in order to help implement the financial strategy.
- Provide support for projects including business and strategic planning, investment appraisals, acquisitions, disposals and contract bids.
- Assist the Strategic Finance Business Partner and Strategic and Corporate Finance in producing and managing the group budget and strategic plan process, including providing effective support during the budget process through analysis of divisional budget proposals and presentations to ensure that budgets and savings plans are robust.
- Develop analytics that support the tracking of operational demand (including trend analyses) so that Business Groups can effectively introduce demand management mechanisms where applicable for the services.
- Support the maximisation of income generation activities, including developing analytics that will ensure decision makers understand relationships between cost and price and the impact on local and corporate budgets of commercial proposals.
- Work collaboratively with the commercial function to deliver cost and volume analytics to enable and support VFM on key categories with suppliers and inform the development of the Met’s commercial pipeline.
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