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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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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Senior Finance Business Partner - London: Circa £400 per day Umbrella Co (IR35)

For a global, commercial organisation with its HQ in London, we're recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner to support the leadership team in the development of short and long-term strategy and the delivery of business plans via insightful financial analysis. Contributing to new strategy and development of expertise globally via a new business model (such as investments in overseas branches and new delivery channels), the Finance Business Partner will embrace change, seek continuous service improvements and will spearhead decision making with business leads and the global finance community.

Main Duties:

• Deliver analysis of business performance via high quality financial information at regional and global level
• Develop and run business planning cycle including: 5-year plan, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Prepare and present business cases to influence decision makers for changes to working practices
• Identify trends and variances to understand business drivers
• Cost benefit analysis over short and long-term with full documentation and policy provision
• Strong focus on internal customers and insightful business partnering
• Consulting stakeholders on a regular basis to identify future / current business drivers and coordinate resources accordingly
• Assess finance and business processes, recommending and implementing changes to drive significant improvements in business performance
• Implement systems and procedures regionally and globally to ensure compliance
• Lead finance and operational projects
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with regional and global teams to support commercial decisions and business delivery

Person Specification:

• Qualified Accountant or QBE with substantial commercial business partnering
• Excellent commercial awareness and experience of working in a lead commercial role
• Substantial experience with the delivery of financial planning and analysis
• Experience with the provision of strategic insight
• Experience of working successfully in a fluid, rapidly changing environment
• Proven business partnering skills
• Experience of working in an international and multi-cultural global organisation
• Experience with implementing change programs
• Bench-marking and Contract Management

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Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

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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.

Robertson Bell Finance are working with one of the leading charities in the UK to recruit an Interim Finance Business Partner for a period of 6 months with the potential for extension following this. Based in Central London joins the organisation during a critical period and will play a key role in the change the team is going through.

Main responsibilities of the Head of Finance Business Partner are as follows:

• Manage and develop a Management Accountant who picks up a lot of the production responsibilities.
• Take responsibility for the finance business partnering with Exec-level directors setting the standard for the team.
• Maintain the quality of information that stakeholders across the organisation are given by the business partnering team whilst improving the level of insight.
• Monitor and report on performance against agreed budgets so that stakeholders have a constant picture of where they are against budgets.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with management experience - specifically working in a changing organisation. This role is a hands on role and you will need to spend a large chunk of it out in the business adding value to stakeholders. Experience within the charity sector will be beneficial, but by no means essential.

You will need to be available immediately or with a short notice period to be considered. Applications will be reviewed daily so please do not delay in applying.

Job title: Finance Business Partner

Salary: £40,000 per annum (includes £4,595 Market Premium)

Location: London E1

Contract/Hours: 12 months fixed term (Mat cover)/ 35 hours (0.8 considered)

The Fairtrade Foundation are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. This is an exciting and highly visible role which provides key support to our Commercial Partnerships, Supply Chain and Programme Partnerships teams in preparing and reviewing business cases, developing insightful analysis to promote the growth of income, and carrying out key operational activities.

We are currently working on our 2021 – 2025 organisational strategy and the Finance Business Partner will play a key role in helping us shape our income strategy.

You’ll need to be a pragmatic and self-motivated finance professional with experience of preparing business cases /models and scenario plans with the ability to adapt these to many varied options that are suggested.  Able to think creatively with great interpersonal skills and an uncanny knack of getting the financial perspective across to non-finance personnel, you will thrive on the challenges that developing new service offers brings.

In addition, your attention to detail in carrying out key operational activities such as forecasting and monitoring income must be an area that is a key motivator for you.

If you have experience of working in a charity or FMCG, that’s great, but it’s not essential.

Fairtrade is a movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade deliver for farmers and workers.

Fairtrade is a global movement with a strong and active presence in the UK, represented by the Fairtrade Foundation.

The international Fairtrade system (of which the Fairtrade Foundation is a member) works on behalf of farmers and workers to drive sustainable livelihoods, empower producers and workers, and make trade fair.

At Fairtrade we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children & vulnerable adults in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work within this environment are recruited to work for us.

A DBS check is therefore required for this role.

The Fairtrade Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community

Closing date: Monday 24 February (5pm)

Interviews will take place 2 March 2020

Contract: 12 months fixed term (Mat cover)

An iconic London Theatre are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their exciting team. This role supports the development and production of global shows and is the key link between creativite potential and numerical reasoning.

Are you a rully qualified accountant, looking for a creative, dynamic role in finance? Are you keen to work in the arts, with creative and artistic stakeholders? Are you a fully qualified ACA, CIMA or similar wanting to have real impact in your role?

This could be the Business Partnering role for you!

Key responsibilities will include:

• Being the key link between the numerically astute finance team, and the creatively brilliant producers
• Business Partnering with stakeholders internally and externally, creating budgets for international projects and providing budget analysis and cash flow forecasting
• Producing monthly management accounts in line with the month end timetable, providing productive commentary on the variances therein for the use of colleagues
• Preparing reports for relevant stakeholders
• Regular reports for the Audit and Risk Committee relating to the activities of the creative arm of the organisation

The successful candidate will:

• Hold a full qualification in accountancy such as ACA, CIMA, ACCA or similar
• Be analytical and solution-focussed, with a positive approach to tasks and a desire to deliver to the highest standards
• Have significant experience of complex budgeting, management reporting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Have acute attention to detail, be able to manage with conflicting deadlines and pressurised, time sensitive environments

The salary for this role is £45,000 per annum, with a good pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes and of course access to free theatre tickets. This role will be ideal for someone coming out of a rotational CIMA grad scheme, or an ACA straight out of practice.

To apply, please submit your CV and supporting statement by Sunday 23rd February. For an informal conversation about the role please contact Emma Jaggs at Allen Lane.

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

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