Strategic Advisor: Provide individual directorates with tailored advice, detailed options, and predictive scenarios to improve business performance.
Core Management Accounting: Produce monthly financials, Directorate income/expenditure accounts, and detailed variance analyses.
Forecasting & Planning: Guide budget holders through financial reviews, build robust forecasts, and support the creation of the Annual Budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan for the Board of Trustees.
System Transformation: Contribute to ad-hoc financial projects to design next-generation reporting models, automated dashboards, and self-serve financial methods.
Financial Upskilling: Support the SFBP in delivering training and induction sessions to build budgetary control awareness across directorates.

Professional Qualifications: Must be at least part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA) or fully qualified with evidence of up-to-date management accounting knowledge.
Advanced Problem Solving: A proven track record of diagnosing financial issues, evaluating alternative solutions, recommending structural improvements, and driving operational change.
Modelling & Analysis: Deep experience in financial analysis, business case planning, and the creation of highly complex spreadsheets or forecasting tools.
Month-End Governance: Direct experience managing crucial components of financial month-end routines while strictly meeting reporting deadlines.
Stakeholder Advisory: Demonstrable success in advising, guiding, and constructively challenging non-finance budget holders on commercial matters.
Precision: Absolute ability to work accurately, dissect granular data, and maintain impeccable attention to detail under tight timeframes.

Hybrid working and flexibility to ensure a positive work-life balance
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service, with the option to buy more
Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan covered by IOSH
Salary sacrifice pension scheme, minimum of 3% employee contribution whilst IOSH contribute 5%
Individual performance related pay scheme
Up to five paid volunteering days per year
Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your dependent's wellbeing

Finance Business Partner

Key skills