Finance Business Partner: Circa £46,000 + Benefits

For a global organisation with headquarters in central London, we're recruiting a Finance Business Partner to support Board members and Heads of Service and senior leaders across Corporate Services (IT, HR, Facilities, Communications, Procurement) to ensure these functions to provide high quality, value for money service to the rest of the Group. The Finance Business Partner will report to the Head of Group FP&A 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, including the Directors of IT, Global Business Services, HR and Finance
• Provide 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
• Contributing to 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
• Provide 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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Are you looking to improve and implement business partnering functions in a commercially aware organisation?

Do you want to advance communication from a Finance perspective across the organisation?

Would working for a growing and influential organisation advance your career?

Read on…

We are recruiting for a commercially aware Finance Business Partner to have key responsibility for:

• Delivering a strong business partnering function to multiple areas across the organisation
• Implement and develop a business partnering function to improve communication from a finance service perspective in line with the developing plans of growth
• Prepare detailed and accurate reports and present to key stakeholders across all levels, including director status
• Provide cost accounting reports and financial modelling in order to forecast and deliver reports to relevant stakeholders

This organisation is a forward thinking and commercially aware charity who improve the lives of thousands across the UK. Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, this role will work to improve their overall business partnering service from finance and grow in line with the ambitious plans of the organisation.

The successful candidate will:

• Ideally be a part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA)
• Have strong knowledge of cost accounting and financial modelling
• Be an advanced excel user
• Have excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively work with senior stakeholders at director level
• Have experience in business partnering and ideally have experience in developing or implementing a business partnering function

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a well-known organisation with exciting plans for the future where this post will be critical in the influential development. Applications are being reviewed daily so please apply now in order to be considered as the role may close early.

Reporting into the Head of Finance, this Financial Business Partner will lead on management accounts, be the face of finance for the stakeholders and support on financial accounting processes. Managing two members of staff, this role is diverse and a fantastic opportunity.

Client Details

Our client is a leading think tank charity, by helping to shape policy and transform services, their aim is to improve health and social care in England. Their vision is that the best possible health and care is available to all.

Description

Key responsibilities:

• For all management accounting processes being performed on time and to a high quality and standard for wider the organisation

• Business partnering with a diverse range of budget holders on key financial decisions, assisting and advising non-finance colleagues

• Being a key role in month-end, forecasting and annual budget. Ensuring that processes are in line with the high standards of this charity

• Developing and maintaining project budgeting systems and controls

• Training, developing and managing the Assistant Management Accountant and Payroll and Finance Officer.

Profile

You will be a professionally qualified accountant with demonstrable experience of working in a financial business partnering role. Having worked previously with a range of stakeholders, you will have the interpersonal skills and confidence to influence and support with their needs and decisions. In addition you will have strong Excel skills due to you being required to manipulate and analyse a wide range of data.

Job Offer

Competitive salary

Finance Business Partner: £60,000 + benefits

For a global organisation with headquarters in central London, we're recruiting a Finance Business Partner. Working with the teams across the Products, Operations and Quality Assurance divisions, the Finance Business Partner will ensure business managers are making effective commercial decisions based on high-quality information and business partner support. This role will ensure decision are aligned to the operating plan in order to deliver products to customers while improving the management of the cost base, identifying opportunities and risks and influencing strategy to maximise value.

Main Duties:

• Business partner with the Quality, Operations and Product Head of Function and their teams
• Build, maintain and influence key stakeholder relationships
• Ensure monthly reporting is communicated face to face with tailored commentary and insight
• Responsible for budget and forecast ensuring budget and forecast align to operating plan
• Interrogate costs and identify opportunities for cost transformation
• Own risks and opportunities reporting
• Work with revenue and profitability finance business partner to ensure costs are reflected in profitability models and can recommend product portfolio make up
• Identify and action opportunities to improve reporting processes
• Support the Projects team and provide guidance on treatment of certain cost types
• Work with FP&A team to ensure budget and forecast are accurately reflected in systems

Person Specification:

• Proven experience in a business partnering role including excellent cost transformation, budgeting, forecasting and risk/opportunity management
• Strong Excel modelling and pricing experience
• CIMA/ACCA or ACA qualified (or studying towards)
• KPI development experience
• Strong understanding of the underlying accounting treatments of transactions and ability to spot anomalies
• Personable approach to financial management and able to build effective relationships at all levels of the organisation
• Ability and experience of communicating and influencing at a senior level

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Finance Business Partner, Permanent: £41,000 - £46,000 + Benefits

We're recruiting a Finance Business Partner to work as the trusted advisor to the Fundraising Team (who last year raised over £100M) for a well-loved animal charity. The Finance Business Partner will produce monthly management accounts, annual budget setting and provide high-quality financial support service to budget holders within the Fundraising Directorate. This role is pivotal in explaining complex financial situations and in reaching out and influencing stakeholders at all levels.

Main Duties:

• Prepare monthly management accounts for designated areas
• Provide a business partnering function to relevant budget holders including reviewing, supporting and coaching on management accounts
• Identify potential improvements to the management accounts analysis and presentation
• Assist with the preparation of the Statutory accounts
• Prepare and review KPIs and act upon variances
• Monthly balance sheet codes reconciliations
• Assisting budget holders in preparing the annual budget
• Develop and roll out budget documents
• Document procedures and systems impacting the Finance Department
• Ad-hoc reporting and duties in support of the Financial Reporting Manager and team as required

Person Specification:

• ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualification
• Extensive experience within management accounts and financial business partnering
• In-depth experience of budgeting, forecasting and business partnering
• Charity experience, SORP and associated reporting structures would be desirable
• Microsoft Dynamics GP desirable

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Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner or senior Management Accountant looking for the next contract? Are you available for work in East London? Do you have experience in Business Partnering with multiple external stakeholders? If so, then please read on!

Robertson Bell Finance are working with a commercially astute Government backed organisation, in the recruitment of a Lead Finance Business Partner To play a pivotal role in the organisation working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects deliver value for money and return on investment. This is a fixed term contract opportunity, due to last for a period of 9 months.

Reporting into the Finance Director, the key responsibilities of the Lead Finance Business Partner are to:

• Play a key role in helping the organisation and key stakeholders develop an in depth understanding of operating costs and income
• Provide insightful analysis to assist the senior management team in the decision making process
• Liaise with key decision makers and budget holders across the organisation providing accurate short term and long term forecasts and cash flow projections, highlighting opportunity and risks
• Assess current contracts to ensure value for money is being delivered
• Assist in the development of robust business cases

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner looking for a dynamic and challenging contract that will deliver real tangible results for the organisation. It offers the opportunity to work alongside a driven and commercially focussed senior leadership team in ensuring the organisation delivers on its goals.

The successful candidate will:

Be a qualified accountant, with experience of finance business partnering in complex organisations with a commercial focus.

Do not hesitate in applying for this opportunity as applications are being reviewed upon receipt.

A charity are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner.

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

Your new role
Reporting directly to the Director of Finance, you will be responsible for providing a high quality business partnering service within the finance function. Duties will include the provision of business support and advice to stakeholders; the production of monthly management accounts; variance analysis; budgeting and forecasting and ad hoc financial analysis.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified Accountant with strong, recent finance business partnering experience within the charity sector.

What you'll get in return
The opportunity to work for a renowned charity that does great work in a stimulating and varied role.

What you need to do now
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Are you an experienced Business Partner who has experience working with fundraising teams? Do you enjoy working in a start-up environment, where things move very quickly? If so, please read on!

Robertson Bell Finance are working with a social welfare charity who are going through an unprecedented period of growth, having doubled in size over the past 2 years. They are looking to recruit an Interim Finance Business Partner for a minimum period of 6 months with the likelihood of extension following this.

Key responsibilities of the role are as follows:

• Business Partner with a number of senior stakeholders from the SMT - the key budget holder being the Head of Fundraising.
• Lead on income reporting, spotting trends around the regular income to ensure more consistent cashflow.
• Implement new policies and processes to ensure tighter financial controls around the fundraising income.
• Head a review into the accounting for restricted and unrestricted income, ensuring compliance with major donors and partnerships.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant
• Have worked in a charity environment
• Ideally have worked in an organisation which is both fundraising and grant giving
• Be a strong business partner and be able to communicate with non-finance staff.

You must be available immediately or with a short notice period to be considered. This role will likely be filled before the closing date so please do not delay in applying.

Robertson Bell Finance are working with a well-known Housing Association to recruit an Interim Senior Finance Business Partner for a period of 3-6 months with the potential for extension. Based in Central London, the role joins the organisation during a period of change and in need of additional support.

Reporting into the Director of Finance, the main responsibilities of the Interim Senior Finance Business Partner are as follows:

• Work with all of the major directorates within the organisation to collate and pull together budgets.
• Take a leading role with the improvement of systems and processes, becoming a go to person for changes being made.
• Ensure that the upcoming budgeting process runs smoothly and is as accurate as possible.
• Support and challenge 8 key stakeholders across the business to provide accurate financial reporting.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with excellent interpersonal skills who has extensive experience of business partnering in a Housing Association. You must also have strong Excel skills in order to deal with the large quantities data that sits in spreadsheets that the organisation currently use as well as to make the necessary improvements to these after this budgeting cycle. This is a fast moving role and you will need to be immediately available or have a short notice period to be considered.

Applications will be checked upon submission so please do not delay in applying.

Calling all Finance Business Partners!!!

We at Harris Hill Charity recruiters would like to speak to you if you are a management accountant looking to do something incredible with your career. Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner? So you are, this is a brilliant opportunity to join a globally-operating NGO that's committed to empowering and supporting children and communities to create long-lasting change.

The Role

As Finance Business Partner you will join the Central Finance team and you will support the fundraising team.

As a trusted adviser, you will use your management accounting expertise and communication skills to partner budget holders and senior directors. This is an exciting role as you will be tasked with providing 'real time' financial support and analysis, you will add value that will assist them in their decision making. Critical to your success will be your ability to communicate the messages, to understand your audiences and deliver the information in a clear and user-friendly manner.

It is this mix of analytical skills, commercial understanding and engaging communication abilities that are at the heart of a successful Finance Business Partner.

Specifically, you will:

- Provide meaningful and well-presented financial information and advice to budget holders, enabling them to make good decisions
- Prepare and monitor budgets and provide supporting analysis
- Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and highlight potential financial risks and liabilities
- Help to ensure that monthly, quarterly and year end accounts and reports are completed accurately and on time

About You

As a Finance Business Partner, you will need:

- Financial business partnering experience, with a track record of advising and supporting senior budget holders
- Strong management accounting skills
- Analytical skills and the ability to interpret financial information and communicate effectively to stakeholders at all levels

Networking, building relationships and engaging tactfully across cultures is essential to the success of this role.

A recognised accounting qualification (e.g. CIMA part or fully qualified, or equivalent) would be beneficial to your application. It would also be advantageous if you have strong system skills, (including knowledge of SAP but not essential), reporting databases and MS Excel.

The Benefits

- Competitive salary and benefits
- Develop your career with a ground-breaking NGO
- Support initiatives that are inspiring and empowering children and communities to create long-lasting change

This is an fantastic opportunity to progress your career in an NGO that makes a genuine difference to people's lives.

The opportunity to develop your career in management accounting via the role of Assistant Finance Business Partner within the Charity Sector. Working as part of a team you will be responsible for supporting managers in interpreting and understanding their financial results.

Client Details

The Client is a leading charity based in Central London with a growing vision for the future and pride in the beneficial work they do for homeless people in Greater London.

Description

Preparation and interpretation of monthly management accounts.

Supporting the charity's budget setting, forecast and management accounting activities.

Finance support to other departments to ensure maintanence of high financial performance and explaining financial performance to stakeholders.

Use of using finance software and excel software and strong data analytical skills being able to interpret data clearly to financial and non-financial individuals through a variety of media.

Profile

You will be ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.

Knowledge of finance software systems and Excel.

Excellent analytical and communication skills are essential - you will be supporting other teams in preparing and renegotiating for the renewal of existing contracts and developing bids for new business.

Job Offer

£36-40,000 + pension, as well as incentives to help maintain a work life balance.

A large university in London are looking for a pert time Finance Business Partner to start immediately. This role is for the next six months, with a possibility of it extending.

The new role of Finance Business Partner is pivotal to the success of our new ways of working and we are looking for candidates with strong communication and finance skills to support our transformation. Each Finance Business Partner will be the lead finance professional providing support to a number of Academic and/or Professional Service Departments, and will work in a cluster alongside HR, Planning and IT business partners, while reporting to the Head of Management Accounts in the central Finance and Planning Directorate.

If you are a qualified or near qualified finance professional with a desire to develop your career in management accounting then this is a fantastic opportunity to join the St Mungo’s Finance team in the role of Assistant Finance Business Partner.

Working as part of a team of eight you will be responsible for supporting operations managers in understanding and interpreting their financial results.  As a Housing Association and a homeless charity our clients and their access to safe and effective services is at the heart of what we do.  Ensuring our operations managers have the information at hand to make informed financial business decisions is core to this. Key responsibilities will include:

• Preparation and interpretation of monthly management accounts.

• Supporting St Mungo’s budget setting, forecast and management accounting activities.

• Finance support to Operations, Central Services and Business Development in managing their financial performance and explaining financial performance to stakeholders.

You will have experience of using finance software and excel software and strong data analytical skills being able to interpret data clearly to financial and non-financial individuals through a variety of media.

Good analytical and communication skills are essential as you will be supporting Operations teams in preparing and renegotiating for the renewal of existing contracts and developing bids for new business. You will be happy working under pressure and to tight deadlines. Applications from all sectors are welcomed.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities; in support of their personal and professional development.

If you believe that you have the skills, knowledge and drive that we are looking for, and a passion for working for a charity that makes a real difference to the lives of homeless people, we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 10.00am Friday 18th October 2019

Interviews and Assessments: 28th October 2019 

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2019, we are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

If you are looking to take your first step into the International Development sector and want to join an impressive INGO with a great track record of developing strong candidates, this International Finance Business Partner may be the right next step for you.

The International Finance Business Partner will be responsible for working with regional offices and producing financial reports for donors, tracking performance and linking impact to spend. This is an exciting time to join this organisation who are one of the most commercially-minded in the sector.

The International Finance Business Partner will oversee global project reporting and forecasting. Responsible for providing management information to global project managers, this position will play a key role in ensuring that projects are financially set up properly and are running smoothly and efficiently. This role will also get involved in developing budgets for proposals and therefore plays a key role in growing the impact of the organisation.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, CIPFA or ACCA) who is either looking to make a move out of practice or who has strong budgeting, reporting and forecasting experience. This client does have a good track record of developing strong candidates and giving great opportunities for progression and if desired, international travel.

With one of the best reputations in the sector, this is a great opportunity to join a prestigious organisation offering unparalleled progression opportunities.

If you are interested in this position, please apply early as this role may be filled before the closing date.