Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

• Develop and document forecasting process and financial models which are driven by funding source providing the business tools for assessing new business and strategic opportunities and that agreed funding is sufficient for work plan.
• Preparation of the annual forecasts (opex and capex) used for company KPI's for LCCC and ESC.
• Business partnering with HoT and budget holders on financial planning and presenting actuals as required by individual teams.
• Deliver effective management reporting to the management and the Board (including quarterly report) on financial performance with insights regarding variances to forecast, causes and future trends
• Manage the budget cycle for preparing multi-year levy budgets and all consultation documents.
• Develop and manage a rolling 2 year rolling forecast process and longer term financial outlook.
• Manage relationship with Strategy and Business Development teams to ensure alignment and efficiently support the annual business plan process and scheme impact assessments.
• Work with Talent Acquisition team and People team on resource plans and Finance approvals of new roles.
• Lead relationship with DESNZ Policy and Finance teams around future funding.
• Work with the Reporting Manager on overhead charging key to ensure forecasts remain reflective of actual observations.
• Collaborate with the Finance Reporting Manager on developing an overhead charging key ensuring alignment with process of posting actuals.
• Manage the forecast submission to DESNZ.
• Provide insight and input into the financial reporting commentary included in monthly reports.
• Work with internal tech Teams and Sage provider to implement automation and efficiencies in forecasting process.
• Support and deputise for the Reporting Manager when required.
• Ad hoc work arising within the team.
• Strategic workforce planning
• Finance representation on the development and then running of strategic workforce planning.

Requirements

• A fully qualified accountant with recognised body with significant years PQE.
• Advanced Excel skills with experience of financial model building with multiple dimensions (e.g. cost centres and “business units”/schemes or similar).
• Experience and demonstratable management and collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of delivering improvements to a forecasting process through use of technology and documenting all processes.
• Good influencing skills and stakeholder management (able to keep all relevant parties informed of objectives and plans and get their input and buy
• in.)
• Proactive and will be able to supervise and coach more junior members of staff if required.
• Extensive working knowledge of an ERP system.
• Knowledge of a backend coding language (e.g. Python or R).
• Experience of visualisation tool (e.g. SQL, PowerBI, etc).

Tech Stack

• ERP
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
• 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
• Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
• Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
• Employee resource groups