English Heritage is a developing and commercially aware charity that cares for over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places for the benefit of over 10 million visitors each year. They have ambitious plans for growth and Robertson Bell are exclusively partnered with them to recruit a Finance Business Partner into the team.

This commercially focussed Finance Business Partner role will specialise in working to provide a strong finance service across regional sites to the Historic Properties Department in the North and West regions as well as developing and enhancing the existing service from Finance to the rest of the organisation.

The key responsibilities will be:

• Monitoring and reporting the financial performance of the Territory with a focus on improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
• Business partnering with multiple stakeholders across two main regions in order to support and challenge them in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Reviewing of reports across multiple projects to produce and present accurate and informative reports for the purpose of the budget holders and the wider organisation.
• Managing two Assistant Finance Business Partner’s whilst supporting and developing their careers to add value to the organisation.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to financial procedures in order to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Producing monthly financial reporting such as P&L and balance sheet posting, department financial forecast and provision of commentary on actual and forecast financial performance.
• Travelling to multiple of the historical sites to engage with budget holders and ascertain elements that can improve analytical insight.

The Organisation
English Heritage is a forward-thinking and commercially aware charity who offer excellent development opportunities to employees. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to add a huge amount of value to the directorate and the wider organisation.

They also offer a generous holiday and pension package, study support packages (if applicable) and opportunities for flexible working, as well as free entry to all English Heritage sites.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a CCAB qualified accountant or finalist (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA).
• Have commercial acumen with the ability to use their initiative and work independently.
• Have strong business partnering skills with experience of liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ideally have knowledge of capital investment and risk involved in this area.
• Have exceptional communication skills.
• Have strong, advanced Excel skills with the ability to build reports and some dashboard construction.
• Be ambitious and driven in order to work proactively in an ever-changing environment.

This opportunity can be based in London, Bristol or York and is being advertised in all 3 locations.

This role will close on 23rd February at 11:59pm with applications being reviewed on a daily basis. Interviews will take place the week beginning the 24th February. Apply now to be considered!

English Heritage is a developing and commercially aware charity that cares for over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places for the benefit of over 10 million visitors each year. They have ambitious plans for growth and Robertson Bell are exclusively partnered with them to recruit a Finance Business Partner into the team.

This commercially focussed Finance Business Partner role will specialise in working to provide a strong finance service across regional sites to the Historic Properties Department in the North and West regions as well as developing and enhancing the existing service from Finance to the rest of the organisation.

The key responsibilities will be:

• Monitoring and reporting the financial performance of the Territory with a focus on improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
• Business partnering with multiple stakeholders across two main regions in order to support and challenge them in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Reviewing of reports across multiple projects to produce and present accurate and informative reports for the purpose of the budget holders and the wider organisation.
• Managing two Assistant Finance Business Partner’s whilst supporting and developing their careers to add value to the organisation.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to financial procedures in order to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Producing monthly financial reporting such as P&L and balance sheet posting, department financial forecast and provision of commentary on actual and forecast financial performance.
• Travelling to multiple of the historical sites to engage with budget holders and ascertain elements that can improve analytical insight.

The Organisation
English Heritage is a forward-thinking and commercially aware charity who offer excellent development opportunities to employees. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to add a huge amount of value to the directorate and the wider organisation.

They also offer a generous holiday and pension package, study support packages (if applicable) and opportunities for flexible working, as well as free entry to all English Heritage sites.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a CCAB qualified accountant or finalist (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA).
• Have commercial acumen with the ability to use their initiative and work independently.
• Have strong business partnering skills with experience of liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ideally have knowledge of capital investment and risk involved in this area.
• Have exceptional communication skills.
• Have strong, advanced Excel skills with the ability to build reports and some dashboard construction.
• Be ambitious and driven in order to work proactively in an ever-changing environment.

This opportunity can be based in London, Bristol or York and is being advertised in all 3 locations.

This role will close on 23rd February at 11:59pm with applications being reviewed on a daily basis. Interviews will take place the week beginning the 24th February. Apply now to be considered!

English Heritage is a developing and commercially aware charity that cares for over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places for the benefit of over 10 million visitors each year. They have ambitious plans for growth and Robertson Bell are exclusively partnered with them to recruit a Finance Business Partner into the team.

This commercially focussed Finance Business Partner role will specialise in working to provide a strong finance service across regional sites to the Historic Properties Department in the North and West regions as well as developing and enhancing the existing service from Finance to the rest of the organisation.

The key responsibilities will be:

• Monitoring and reporting the financial performance of the Territory with a focus on improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
• Business partnering with multiple stakeholders across two main regions in order to support and challenge them in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Reviewing of reports across multiple projects to produce and present accurate and informative reports for the purpose of the budget holders and the wider organisation.
• Managing two Assistant Finance Business Partner’s whilst supporting and developing their careers to add value to the organisation.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to financial procedures in order to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Producing monthly financial reporting such as P&L and balance sheet posting, department financial forecast and provision of commentary on actual and forecast financial performance.
• Travelling to multiple of the historical sites to engage with budget holders and ascertain elements that can improve analytical insight.

The Organisation
English Heritage is a forward-thinking and commercially aware charity who offer excellent development opportunities to employees. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to add a huge amount of value to the directorate and the wider organisation.

They also offer a generous holiday and pension package, study support packages (if applicable) and opportunities for flexible working, as well as free entry to all English Heritage sites.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a CCAB qualified accountant or finalist (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA).
• Have commercial acumen with the ability to use their initiative and work independently.
• Have strong business partnering skills with experience of liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ideally have knowledge of capital investment and risk involved in this area.
• Have exceptional communication skills.
• Have strong, advanced Excel skills with the ability to build reports and some dashboard construction.
• Be ambitious and driven in order to work proactively in an ever-changing environment.

This opportunity can be based in London, Bristol or York and is being advertised in all 3 locations.

This role will close on 23rd February at 11:59pm with applications being reviewed on a daily basis. Interviews will take place the week beginning the 24th February. Apply now to be considered!

Are you ambitious and keen to develop your career in a supportive and evolving organisation?

Do you strive to continuously improve financial procedures?

Are you an excellent communicator who enjoys building relationships?

This is an exciting time to join the finance department as we will be introducing a new accounting and project management system in the coming months and you will play a key role in developing our systems and processes.

We’re looking for someone who is not only excellent with figures but who can explain those figures to non-accountants and help us to improve financial understanding across the organisation.

To find out more about this role, please visit our website.

About Us

The RSA combines thought leadership with civic innovation to further human progress. Building on our 260 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, the RSA is currently at an exciting period in its history. We provide platforms for leading experts through the UK’s most ambitious free public lecture series, our projects generate new models for tackling the social challenges of today and we are building on our network of nearly 30,000 Fellows around the world – these are achievers and influencers from every field with a real commitment to progressive and social change.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 09 March 2020.  Screening calls will take place in the week commencing 09 March. First interviews are expected to take place in the week commencing 16 March and second interviews will be in the week commencing 23 March.

The expected start date is early-mid June.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Head of Finance Business Partnering for one of the large membership bodies in London.

Client Details

This organisation is a highly regarded membership body. They run events and training, and set policy and guidance, for one of the leading professions in the world. They are a prestigious organisation based in a Central London location and they are currently driving an ambitious strategy with this role heavily involved in the support of key decision making.

Description

Key responsibilities:

• Manage a team of qualified accountants

• Work closely with director level budget holders on a regular basis

• Look to drive improvement to reporting and analysis that goes out to budget holders

• Contribute heavily to key projects across the organisation

Profile

You will be a fully qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA accountant (or equivalent) with strong FP&A and finance business partnering skills that can be evidenced through experience. The ability to communicate effectively with non-finance is essential to success within the position as is a thorough understanding of budgeting, forecasting and detailed analysis. All backgrounds considered but an understanding of large scale organisation or not-for-profit funding would be beneficial.

Job Offer

Salary £55,000 to £65,000 plus excellent pension and annual leave allowance

Interested in a role that offers wonderful financial support to the completion of your accountancy qualifications? Want to be part of an organisation that puts time and effort into the development of their staff? Looking for a CV enhancing role that will help you further your career within finance? Then this is the role for you!

My client is an instantly recognisable organisation based in London looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their finance team in a hugely commercially focused role.

The main responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner are as follows:

• Liaise closely with senior managers at the director-level to review their budgets with them, highlighting any variances that may be in the budget.
• Take the lead in the production of budgets and quarterly reforecasts.
• Full responsibility for analysing the various costs to the organisation, ensuring that they are all necessary to its growth and operation.
• Act as the main point of contact in finance for all cost centres within the remit of the role.
• Provide invaluable support to the Head of Finance Business Partnering in making sure that the various projects operated by the organisation stay within budget.

This is a wonderful development opportunity for a part-qualified accountant looking to build their career further within an organisation that focuses on progression within. Furthermore, this role offers a fantastic study support package, which includes financial support and study leave, alongside great on the job training from the Head of Finance Business Partnering.

The successful candidate will:

• Be actively studying towards an accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
• Previously have worked within a management accountancy or finance business partnering-based role.
• Have Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.).
• Be an excellent communicator.
• Have the motivation and ambition to build a fantastic career as a Finance Business Partner.

If you are interested in this position, please apply immediately as this role is likely to gather a lot of interest and will be filled before the closing date.

A leading International Charity are looking for a Finance Business Partner for their London Office.

Salary: £47-50,000 depending on experience

Hours: 35 hours per week, with flexible working and working from home

Benefits: 30 days annual leave, 10.5% pension, excellent work-life-balance

Location: Central London

Role:

You will provide quality strategic insight and effective finance partnering to key stakeholders to drive financial and business outcomes across member offices globally. You will support them with budget management and performance analysis, and provide investment analysis for growing member offices along with some ad hoc project work. There may be some occasional travel to country offices dependent on business need.

Who we are looking for:

• Relevant accountancy qualfification
• Well-developed analytical and business partnering skills
• Excellent IT literacy with intermediate - advanced excel competency
• Confidence to liaise with staff at all levels across multiple departments
• Ability to liaise with staff internationally across a wide range of cultures with the ability to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Ability to be proactive and logical in problem-solving scenarios
• High attention to detail and takes pride in delivering accurate, high quality work
• Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, and obstacles, and an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines
• A passion for international development

If this sounds of interest, please apply asap

Robertson Bell Finance are currently supporting a rapidly growing arts organisation in London in the search for an Interim Finance Business Partner to join the team for 3 to 6 months period, with a view to go to permanent for the successful candidate.

You will play an integral role in the charity that will involve pivotal decision making and providing direct support to the Head of Finance. Key responsibilities include:

• Business partnering to the wider organisation, liaising with both managers and directors of each department, to provide pivotal information that will influence the growth of the organisation.
• Leading on the production of management accounts and month end reporting.
• Be the key member in the finance department to consolidate accounts and provide key financial advice to various cost centres.
• Provide support during year end to ensure that all statutory accounts are produce in a timely manner.
• Line management of a small team.

To be considered for this role you will be a qualified accountant with a strong background within the charity sector and you will have proven experience of using Sun System and strong working experience using Q&A Vision for various reporting.

You must have experience in business partnering, as this is a big part of the role including building and maintain key stake holders relationships along with providing key financial support across the wider organisation.

This is an interim role and applications will therefore be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Are you interested in helping us make the ordinary possible for children and young people with autism?

Here at Ambitious about Autism, we are looking for a Finance Business Partner.

This role is responsible for the Business Partnering of some strategically important areas across the group, supporting them to deliver their financial targets by developing trusted relationships and working alongside members of our Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and budget holders to produce their finance model, budget, and forecasts.

Ambitious about Autism is the national charity for children and young people with autism. We provide services, raise awareness and understanding as well as campaign for change. Through TreeHouse School, Ambitious College and The Rise School we provide specialist education and support to children and young people, aged three to 25, with autism.

Role:

• To develop the financial strategy (the 5 year model) for key departments, influencing senior colleagues as appropriate to ensure financial sustainability and alignment with the organisation
• Applying expert financial knowledge to provide financial advice and guidance to budget holders on finance policies, procedures and best practice.
• To design, produce and circulate high quality management information and analytics that monitor performance against the financial plan, to ensure that the financial position remains on track.

At Ambitious about Autism we offer a wide range of financial and wellbeing benefits, such as:

• Continuous professional development
• Flexible working
• Subsidised weekly classes including; Yoga, Zumba and Running
• Annual staff recognition awards
• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000
• Season ticket loans
• Wellness programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to physiotherapy for all employees

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like work for a forward-thinking organisations and make a real impact to young people and children with autism.

If you would like more information about the role or would be keen to have a confidential chat, please contact Stephen Vickers 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

• Finance Business Partner
• Permanent Role
• £70-80,000 + Bonus and Benefits
• Central London, Mayfair

This is a truly exciting opportunity for a commercial Finance Business Partner to join one the world’s most innovative and impactful philanthropic organisations, in what would be a highly strategic new role.

CIFF, established in 2002 as an independent funder with a rigorous business-like approach, is enjoying a steep and ambitious growth phase in 2020. With a healthy appetite for disruptive strategies and commercial partnerships, CIFF is the world’s largest philanthropic organisation focussed on the improvement of the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries (over $350m will be disbursed this year) focussing on core prevention strategies that have lasting impact.

The Finance Business Partner is the critical interface between the Finance function and the Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health (“ASRH”) and Evidence, Measurement & Evaluation (“EME”) global programme management teams, playing a key role of providing commercial and financial input to the design and delivery of programme investments.

The Role:

• Financial analysis, modelling and decision support to programmes
• Technical oversight, audit, risk and controls as well as statutory requirements and grant accounting
• Some travel to US, Africa and Asia to meet with programmes

The Person:

• Excellent communication skills, able to present and share financial information to a range of senior stakeholders
• Motivated to work in philanthropy and interested in international charity
• Able to work autonomously as well within a strong matrix team
• Flexible approach and able to adapt to fluid role requiring complex strategic input

The Profile:

• 2:1 degree or better, and qualified accountant, or equivalent
• Advanced excel and intermediate modelling
• Worked with SME’s
• Understanding of financial risk within INGO arena
• Understanding of governance and risk frameworks
• Desirable: pharmaceutical sector and internal audit experience

All 3rd party CV’s will be forwarded to the engaged agency - Ivy Rock Partners.

The closing date for applications is 8th March 2020. Please submit a CV and a brief 1-page cover letter at your earliest convenience; and contact Michael Quest at Ivy Rock Partners to discuss the role.

Robertson Bell Finance are working with a prominent, well established Government body based in central London in their search for a Finance Business Partner. This is an exciting career enhancing opportunity that will add value and experience to your developing skill set.

The main responsibilities will include:

• Liaising across internal departments to ensure the effective and accurate delivery of financial information to those from non-financial backgrounds.
• Acting as key liaison point between Finance and the business, building in depth understanding of different business areas and performance priorities.
• Providing analysis to support decision making and using benchmarking to highlight opportunities and add value.
• Supporting the financial analysis of business areas to prepare for Spending Reviews, risk management and business planning processes.
• Interacting with a variety of external stakeholders on a regular basis allowing for transparency on costing; ensuring financial information is collected within tight deadlines.
• Working on business cases with a real-world impact with relation to costing, profit and the organisation's annual commentary.

The successful candidate will be CCAB, or equivalent, qualified or part qualified and actively studying towards their accountancy qualification with strong communication skills and established experience producing detailed analysis for the business and conveying this information to multiple stakeholders. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their career with the successful candidate encouraged to take every opportunity given to learn and progress.

If you are looking for a Finance Business Partnering role in a challenging, fast paced environment and want your role to have a real impact, this position with one of the UK's leading national charities might be the right role for you.

Based in Central London, this role offers the chance to be part of a high performing team, in a role that offers brilliant insight into how one of the most influential charities in the UK operates.

Working with key income generating departments, the Finance Business Partner will be a sound financial adviser to non-finance stakeholders and provide analytical finance support to assist decision making. Key responsibilities will include management accounting and reporting, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis and business partnering.

We are looking for fully qualified accountants with post-qualification experience in a business partnering or management accounting role. A strong technical skillset is essential, as is the ability to build relationships at a senior level and be a credible partner. Excellent communication skills are essential, and this position would suit an ambitious candidate, eager to take on a role with a lot of potential for development.

If you are interested in this position, please get in touch as soon as possible as application are reviewed daily and interviews are being held as and when suitable candidates apply.

Want to work for a leading property organisation with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of assets? Are you a newly qualified accountant looking to broaden your financial knowledge? Do you want to work for an organisation that prides themselves on developing their staff within? Then this is the role for you!

My client is a rapidly growing nationwide property organisation based in Birmingham looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their team in a role filled with fantastic growth and development potential.

The main responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner are as follows:

• Liaise closely with a variety of senior internal and external stakeholders, building excellent relationships with them in order to successfully aid in the development of new properties and the transfer of assets.
• Provide vital input into the strategic decision-making process, with due diligence undertaken in order to effectively advise senior stakeholders.
• Analyse complex financial information to ensure that stakeholders are fully aware of any financial risks and tax implications that projects may include.
• Take the lead on the budgeting and forecasting process, reviewing them with stakeholders and analysing any variances that there may be.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a newly qualified accountant to develop their career further in a broad finance role within a highly ambitious organisation with growth-plans in place to substantially increase in size over the next ten years. Furthermore, as this role is highly project-based, there is the opportunity for the successful candidate to really mould the role in their own image, in order to move further down their chosen career path.

The successful candidate will have:

• Fully qualified as an accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
• Ideally experience of audit, assurance or forensic accounting, however, candidates without this are still encouraged to apply.
• A natural problem solver with excellent communication skills.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.).

If you are interested in this position, please apply immediately as applications are reviewed daily and this role may be filled before the closing date.

Evidence Assistant

Permanent

£25,625 

Flexible working options will be supported

Ageing Better is an independent charitable foundation. We believe that more people living longer represents a huge opportunity for society and we want everyone to enjoy a good later life. However, changes are needed to ensure people in later life are in good health, financially secure, socially connected, and have a sense of meaning and purpose. Our new strategy sets out an ambition to do more on all these fronts.

As Evidence Assistant you will play a key part in Ageing Better’s evidence function; supporting work across the organisation, delivering a range of research tasks, conducting basic data analysis and fact checking documents. Alongside this you will be responsible for research administration, supporting the effective and efficient running of evidence projects.

The successful candidate will have experience of basic data analysis, literature searches and social research methods including evidence synthesis, qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation approaches. You will possess good appraisal and analytical skills alongside good IT Skills. An interest in Ageing Better’s agenda is essential.

To apply please send a CV, covering letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role and the below Equality and Diversity form. The closing date for this role is 9am on Wednesday, 4th March 2020 with interviews to take place on Friday, 20th March 2020