My client is a fantastic charity in Wiltshire who is looking to recruit a new role, Finance Business Partner into their finance team

The main purpose of the role is to work closely with the finance team and other business areas in the organisation to improve and strengthen processes, reconciliations, reporting and system links between the CRM system and the Finance System. You will also be the finance lead for a number of new projects and initiatives 

Key responsibilities will be to:

• Implement process improvements and system automation to support the accurate and timely production of cashflow and management accounts reports
• Build reports on funding and set up processes to monitor income and expenditure and the spending down of restricted reserves
• Support grant programmes and large funder reporting requirements with regular reporting and forecasting.
• Support the annual budgeting cycle 
• Support funding applications and bids with analysis as required.

To succeed in this role you will need to have the passion, energy and enthusiasm to help us change the way we work in line with the wider charity objectives and be a proactive, solution focused individual who communicates clearly and works well with people 

Experience of working in the charity sector is advantageous but not essential. You need to be a qualified accountant and have good systems skills

For more information please get in touch

Senior Finance Business Partner: £400 - £450 per day (Umbrella Co.) 3 - 6 Months +

For a global organisation with headquarters in central London, we're recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner on an interim basis for 3 - 6 months to partner with Board members and senior leaders across Corporate Services (IT, HR, etc) to ensure these functions to provide high quality, value for money service to the rest of the Group. The Senior Finance Business Partner will report to the CFO and CEO and will regularly present performance and strategic plans covering operating and project expenditure.

Main Duties:

• Provide high quality finance business partnering to centralised corporate services functions and their teams, primarily the Director of IT and Director of Global Business Services
• Leading on providing expert financial advice for many change programmes and project including investment appraisals and ROI, especially large-scale IT Projects
• Provide timely and informative updates and advise on costs, challenging assumptions
• Overseeing and leading a matrix team structure where business partnering can be carried out by many people but with this role having clear ownership of the consolidated financial position
• Work closely with Director of IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Procurement, Comms to provide financial information helping managers make sound financial decisions including investment appraisals or accounting on live projects
• Lead on financial planning and reporting for spend across the Corporate Services functions
• Monthly cost reporting on SAP
• Forecasting and annual budgeting using Hyperion
• Support Group Accounting team on a range of month and year-end activities including manual journals, accruals, prepayments, VAT and statutory external audit

Person Specification:

• Newly qualified, finalist or CCAB qualified accountant
• Proven experience of budgeting, forecasting and planning from complex organisations with complicated income and cost bases
• Proven track record of communicating, influencing and challenging senior leaders
• Extensive knowledge of profit and loss accounting
• Advanced Excel skills including Pivot tables, Vlookups and Sumifs
• SAP and Hyperion experience
• Strong understanding of accounting treatments and how to spot anomalies
• MS PowerPoint presentation skills
• Commercially minded, ambitious and confident

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One of the largest housing associations in the UK is looking for a finance business partner for their Development and Sales team. You must have investment / project appraisal experience as this is a key aspect of the role.

Client Details

Our client is one of the largest housing associations in the UK, part of the G15 group. They are constantly growing, and have a very high calibre finance team.

Description

You would be responsible for:

• Taking complex financial information, providing insight and analysis to the senior management team to help them make strategic business decisions
• Keeping up to date with the relevant regulatory frameworks
• Communicating effectively with finance and non-finance colleagues, both written and verbally
• Working to tight and strict deadlines, providing high quality work and prioritising effectively
• Ensuring all company policies are adhered to, so that consistent and standard practice is achieved organisation-wide

Profile

You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) who has excellent communication skills, has experience of finance business partnering and has ideally previously worked in housing / property / construction.

Job Offer

An excellent starting salary, experience of working in a high calibre finance team, and a range of benefits.

Are you looking to direct a key area of the business partnering strategy in a newly created role for a large charity?

Would working partnering with executive level stakeholders and delivering quality information to better inform decision making be of interest to you?

Do you want to lead a team of Financial Analysts and drive a high-quality standard of reporting and business partnering?

The role

This excellent opportunity as a Finance Business Partner for an amazing charity that work all across the UK in a number of regions across to deliver fundraising activities and commercial benefits to the public. The newly created Finance Business Partner position will have the following key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders in the annual budget setting process and appropriately forecasting to communicate financially to non-finance staff
• Lead a team of Financial Analysts to drive quality reporting for Executive stakeholders across Fundraising, HR, Strategy and Development and IT.
• Delivering sound advice to budget holders by supporting and coaching them through the decision-making process to improve financial performance
• Prepare accurate and relevant management reports for budget holders
• Actively add value and drive forward communication through business partnering across departments

Benefits

• Very flexible working opportunities
• Working from home opportunities
• 25 days holiday rising to 30 after 5 years of service
• Pension of up to 10% employer contribution
• Healthcare plan
• Many other excellent benefits

The successful candidate

• A fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA) or significant experience (QBE)
• Significant experience as a confident and collaborative Business Partner to challenge budget holders
• A proactive and 'outside-the-box' thinker
• Knowledge of SAP accounting with drive to find the most efficient and effective way of reporting to add value to the business

This is a brilliant opportunity for a strong Finance Business Partner who is looking for their next step in their career, which will not only utilise your existing stakeholder engagement skills but also develop areas on a more strategic perspective.

Applications are being reviewed daily so please apply today!

A charity are recruiting for an Interim Finance Business Partner

Your new company
A high profile charity based in central London.

Your new role
Reporting to the Finance Business Partnering Manager, you will be responsible for assisting with the production of the monthly management accounts, annual budget setting and to support budget holders in a finance business partnering capacity. Anticipated duration is six months.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified Finance Business Partner/Senior Management Accountant with a strong, recent charity background.

What you'll get in return
The opportunity to add value within a high profile charity.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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My client is an educational charity based in Bristol who is dedicated to building a culture of interest and questioning from a cross section of the population especially the very young.

They want to reposition science as part of culture and enable everyone to be able to ask questions and be heard!

They are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner for 12 months to cover a maternity leave
This role is a key part of the small senior management team and very involved in assisting non finance managers with their budgeting and financial management in order to set achievable business goals for the future

Key responsibilities included:

• Producing organisational budgets, monthly management accounts, project cost statements and grant claims. You will also support the production of year end statutory accounts and the audit file
• Have the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance managers, and use these communication skills to train colleagues and to explain financial data to non-financial managers
• Manage multiple deadlines in a highly organised way and ensure that all project budgets get checked by Finance prior to funder submission

You will be a newly qualified / qualified accountant or QBE,  love being part of a team, supporting colleagues and building strong working relationships and have excellent communication skills with the ability to present information clearly both verbally and in writing.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a truly fun, creative and inquisitive organisation. For more information please get in touch

International Charity are seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to manage the financial and budgetary elements of contracted overseas work done by the charity.

You will be working closely with the overseas programme managers based Overseas.

Permanent Role

£45,000

Responsibilities

• You will provide advice and technical expertise on financial aspects of the contract work done.
• You will be the Finance business partner for the overseas programme and project managers.
• Monitor, review and provide external and internal reports on these programmes.
• You will act as the financial influence for programmes, from the beginning (cost modelling) to the close of the programme.
• Working with the budget holders with their annual budget and quarterly forecasting.
• You will be asked to produce accurate, timely and high quality management information and analysis along side your team of 2 assistant management accountants

Qualifications/experience required

The client is looking for a qualified accountant

A professional background of working for an International Charity would be highly beneficial.

What’s on offer?

• £44,000
• 9% Non- contributory Pension
• 25 days holiday
  
   

ROLE: Finance Business Partner

SALARY: Band 8b £59,083 - £67,760*

LOCATION: Central London

SECTOR: Public Sector, Healthcare

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week

TYPE: Full-time, Permanent

*inclusive of HCAS

A career opportunity has arisen for 2 x Finance Business Partners to join Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. This specialist Trust is a centre of excellence for children’s healthcare and offers the widest range of care in the UK. It is the only specialist Biomedical Research Centre for paediatrics, the largest centre in the UK for children and young people with heart or brain problems, and the largest centre in Europe for children and young people with cancer. The hospital receives over 255,000 patient visits a year, carries our approximately 18,800 operations each year and employs over 4,000 employees.

Finance Business Partner Duties and Responsibilities:

The Finance Business Partners are responsible for a range of both clinical and corporate directorates and have line management responsibilities of up to 3 staff. Some of the key duties include:

• To be the lead working closely with the senior management team within the directorate including General Manager, Chief of Service, Head of Nursing, Deputy Directors and Executive Directors to provide leadership, financial and business advice and support
• Leading and managing a team of Finance staff (including Finance Mangers, Assistant Finance Managers, Senior Management Accountants and Management Accountants) in the production of high quality financial management information, income and expenditure, for a range of clinical and corporate units
• Identifying opportunities for information or quality improvements within the wider Financial Management team, supporting the Deputy Head of Financial Management and Head of Financial Management to ensure every opportunity is taken to develop and enhance the provision of an expert Financial Management service to the Trust.

Finance Business Partner Person Specification:

The Finance Business Partner will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) and will be a Qualified CCAB Accountant. The ideal candidate for this role will have post-qualification experience in financial management, have effective leadership skills/management experience and have the ability develop effective working relationships with finance, clinical and non-finance colleagues at a senior level. This person must be a confident communicator and be able to present highly complex financial information and lead financial discussions at senior management and executive level meetings.

Candidates from the private sector and wider public sector organisations are strongly encouraged to apply. NHS experience is beneficial but not essential for the Finance Business Partner roles. We are looking for people who are motivated, ambitious and want to work in an environment where they can make an impact.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust’s Always Values:

The Trust has developed the Always Values with staff, patients and families that characterise all that they do and their behaviours with patients, families and each other. The Always Values encourage employees to be:

• Always Welcoming
• Always Helpful
• Always Expert
• Always One Team

It is important that this person’s values are in line with these expectations and that they are able to communicate well and work with people at all levels of the organisation.

Your salary and benefits:

• Band 8b £59,083 - £67,760*(*inclusive of HCAS)

• 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (holiday entitlement raises to 33 days with service)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Excellent training, learning and development opportunities
• Generous pension scheme (including 20.68% employer contribution and a tiered system of employee contribution depending on your salary from 5% to 14.5%).
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme
• Health services discounts (retail, holidays, entertainment and restaurants)
• Season ticket loan, car loan scheme and cycle to work scheme

HOW TO APPLY AND CLOSING DATE:

For your application to be considered, you will be required to send your CV and cover letter to Allen Lane before midnight on Wednesday 19th February.

Early applications are strongly encouraged and if you are successfully shortlisted, interviews will follow shortly after. If you would like to find out more information before applying please contact Brooke Cooper at Allen Lane.

Would business partnering with Director level stakeholders and delivering quality information to better inform decision making be an interesting role for you?

Are you looking to direct a key area of the business partnering strategy across investment in a newly created role?

Do you want to lead a team of Financial Analysts and drive a high-quality standard of reporting and business partnering?

The role

This excellent opportunity as a Finance Business Partner for an amazing charity that work across the UK in a number of regions across to deliver fundraising activities and commercial benefits to the public. The newly created Finance Business Partner position will have the following key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders in the annual budget setting process and appropriately forecasting to communicate financially to non-finance staff
• Lead a team of Financial Analysts to drive quality reporting for Director level stakeholders across specifically across investments for the charity.
• Delivering sound advice to budget holders by supporting and coaching them through the decision-making process to improve financial performance
• Prepare accurate and relevant management reports for budget holders
• Actively add value and drive forward communication through business partnering across departments

Benefits

• Very flexible working opportunities
• Working from home opportunities
• 25 days holiday rising to 30 after 5 years of service
• Pension of up to 10% employer contribution
• Healthcare plan
• Many other excellent benefits

The successful candidate

• A fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA) or significant experience (QBE)
• Significant experience as a confident and collaborative Business Partner to challenge budget holders
• A proactive and 'outside-the-box' thinker
• Knowledge of SAP accounting with drive to find the most efficient and effective way of reporting to add value to the business

This is a brilliant opportunity for a strong Finance Business Partner who is looking for their next step in their career, which will not only utilise your existing stakeholder engagement skills but also develop areas on a more strategic perspective.

Applications are being reviewed daily so please apply today!

Looking for a Finance Business Partnering role with the genuine capacity to influence senior stakeholders and contribute towards strategic development?

Want to work for a forward-thinking organisation with an incredible social reach?

Are you a driven and ambitious accountancy professional that is looking to assume extra responsibilities as you progress?

If yes, then this could be the role for you!

My client is a Manchester based organisation who is looking for a Finance Business Partner to join them on a permanent basis. With flexible working hours, the ability to work from home and unparalleled opportunities to grow and develop professionally, this is the perfect role for a motivated and ambitious finance professional who is looking to further their career in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

The main responsibilities of this Finance Business Partner role will include:

• Full responsibility for producing cost centre reports for budget holders and senior leadership at month end, analysing variances and providing commentary as necessary.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across your directorate, providing financial support and guidance to support with performance and decision making.
• Take the lead in the creation and review of budgets and forecasts for your area of responsibility, producing reports and communicating these across the organisation.
• Capacity building budget holders and other members of the finance team and engage in finance efficiency improvements, including the development of existing month end reporting and accounting architecture.
• Provide invaluable support in the year-end reporting process and the closure of accounts.

The successful candidate will have:

• Part-Qualified as an accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Experience of producing reports at month end.
• Strong knowledge and experience of double entry.
• Proficient Excel skills, including vlookups and pivot tables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and be a proactive worker.

If you are interested in this Finance Business Partner opportunity, please do not delay in applying as CVs are being reviewed daily and the client is looking to interview ASAP.

Job Overview

A Globally renowned Arts Institution are seeking a permanent full time Finance Business Partner.

• £50,000 - £55,000 salary
• 8% pension
• Based in the heart of London, this is a wonderful opportunity to work within a very unique organisation.

Responsibilities

• To provide a high-quality business partnering service to the organisation, including the delivery of timely, accurate, insightful and fit-for-purpose comprehensive management accounts, reporting and analysis
• To provide forward-looking insight and analysis to inform key future decisions, supporting the Senior Management Team to enhance performance and drive the long-term success of the organisation.
• You will be responsible for leading on Financial Planning, costing, forecasting and reporting.
• Oversee the monthly forecasting exercise and enhance the management information
• Support senior management and budget holders in strategic decision making.

Qualifications/experience required

You must be a qualified Accountant

What’s on offer?

• £50,000 - £55,000
• Excellent pension and holiday entitlement

Finance Business Partner 
Burford, Oxfordshire or Home Based (in the London area) 

About Us

Blue Cross is one of the UK’s leading rehoming organisations for animals. We support sick, injured and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes. 

We are now seeking a Finance Business Partner to join us and support the financial health of our organisation. 

The Benefits 

- Salary of £40,000 - £47,000 per annum 
- Home working options for London-based candidates
- Employee assistance programme 
- Pension scheme 
- Company sick pay 
- Life insurance 
- Shopping discounts and more

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountancy professional to join our team and drive forward initiatives that are critical to delivering our business requirements.

This is a great chance to play a vital part in the financial decision-making for our charity whilst ensuring that we can continue to support animals great and small who need our help.

You will have the opportunity to broaden your professional portfolio, build strong relationships across our group, get involved with our charity at a strategic level and support Executive and Board level decisions.

So, if you’re ready to take on a fresh challenge and provide essential financial expertise that will contribute to our success, we want to hear from you. 

The Role 

As the Finance Business Partner, you will provide accurate financial information and highlight opportunities which contribute to key financial decisions. 

Working effectively in partnership relationships within the organisation’s directorates, you will act as an internal financial and business consultant. You will provide insight and challenge decisions to enable the delivery of strategic plans and objectives in line with corporate goals. 

Your role will also involve:

- Developing strong relationships with the Charity and Trading Company (‘the Group’)
- Initiating, developing and implementing new projects
- Developing effective and tailored business reporting 
- Researching the market to analyse contractor’s costs
- Assisting in the delivery of statutory consolidation accounts
- Driving the improvement of internal reporting capabilities
- Delivering streamlined and automated processes for budgets and forecast projections

About You

To be considered as a Finance Business Partner, you will need: 

- To be a fully qualified accountancy professional 
- Substantial professional accounting experience
- Excellent communication skills 
- A logical approach to problem solving

Other organisations may call this role Financial Controller, Senior Accountant, Accounting Business Partner, Finance BP, Management Accountant, Chartered Management Accountant, or Accountant.

Grade: 4.2 

The closing date for applications is the 5th February 2020.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. For more information on this role, please select the apply button to read the full job description. 

Webrecruit and Blue Cross are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Finance Business Partner, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Finance Business Partner - Large International Charity - City of London

A large national international development charity are looking for a fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) finance business partner to join their business partnering team. This will be working closely with their transformation delivery team, providing high quality financial insight to various budget holders across a number of projects.

As Finance Business Partner, your key responsibilities will include:

• Budgeting, forecasting and management accounting
• Provide meaningful financial support to project managers
• Act as key contact point with the management of the work stream, providing guidance and
  advice and dealing with all finance-related queries.
• Provide on demand insight reports, to provide oversight to the Portfolio leadership on project budget and forecast
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the finance team's procedures and processes.

This is a full time permanent position with a salary of £48,000 to £52,000 (dependent on experience) plus great benefits

We are looking for a fully qualified accountant with:

• Ability to present complex financial information to non finance staff
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting
• Ability to liaise remotely and in person with a wide range of people at all levels of financial literacy
• Excellent IT literacy including expertise in spreadsheet modelling and analysis
• Understanding of project management

If this Finance Business Partner position is of interest then please apply now, or if this isn't quite right, but you are looking for a new role in the charity and not for profit sector, send through an up to date CV to [email protected]

Finance Business Partner - Large International Charity - City of London

Are you a Finance Business Partner looking to take ownership of a huge part of the budget for a successful organisation? Do you enjoy partnering with budget holders who are active, engaged, and informed on their numbers? Do you want the organisation you work for to value and respect you, and respond to your recommendations?

My client is a thriving housing provider in Berkshire which is getting ready to face an exciting period of change in the new year. This is a crucial role, with key responsibilities including:

• Being responsible for roughly half the total budget, working within the largest directorate in the organisation
• Managing the relationships with key stakeholders in that directorate and providing senior leadership with supporting information to assess the implication of strategic decisions, as well as providing expert level analysis and performance reporting
• Managing a small team of management accountants and finance analysts, directing them in the delivery of their day to day/month to month work, supporting their career development, and ensuring they remain a motivated and encouraged workforce alongside the delivery of monthly objectives
• Driving Value For Money and Efficiency initiatives, helping the directorate go above and beyond expectations and supporting the growth of the organisation as a result
• Providing forward thinking Business Partnering support, finding new ways to excel as a Partner to senior leadership

This is a truly wonderful opportunity to take control of a crucial part of a successful social organisation and should attract candidates who want to be able to see the value of their work on the world around them. The beneficiaries of the success of the Finance Business Partner will be real people in real communities, who are currently being supported by this highly respected organisation - success in this role will help their services to reach more and more people as time goes on.

Furthermore, as a development role, this is a rare opportunity to be trusted with ownership of a large directorate's finance support - meaning this should be seen as an excellent CV enhancing role and a clear route towards more senior leadership for the right candidate.

To be considered, you should meet these minimum criteria:

• Be a fully qualified accountant - this is a necessity
• Demonstrate clear experience of providing high level, proactive business partnering support to influence change and efficiency
• Possess first class communication skills along with being a great relationship builder.

Applications are under constant review in the new year and interviews can be arranged with short notice for the right candidates - please apply straight away to be considered!