Finance Business Partner

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£160,555 a year

Reading

Location

Full-time

Job type

Permanent

Contract type

Hybrid

Work setup

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In brief

This Finance Business Partner role supports an executive public body by providing financial insight and scrutiny to senior leadership. The work involves managing budgets, reviewing business cases and leading finance teams to ensure financial plans align with organisational objectives.

Best for

Experienced finance business partners with public sector or MOD-related backgrounds.

Non-negotiable

Active SC or DV security clearance required.

Worth knowing

This is a 12-month contract with a hybrid working pattern of 3 days on-site in Reading and 2 days at home.

What you need

Required

  • SC/DV clearance

    Clearly required in the listing

  • Stakeholder management

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Financial planning

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Budget management

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Business case analysis

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Team leadership

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Variance analysis

    Strongly implied by the listing

  • Communication

    Strongly implied by the listing

Preferred

No preferred skills or technologies were clearly stated.

Your day-to-day

  • Manage stakeholder relationships

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Oversee financial deliverables

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Scrutinise business cases

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Lead finance teams

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Provide financial insight

    Clearly stated in the job description.

Experience expected

Level

Senior level

Based on what the listing states

Years of experience

Not stated

No clear years requirement found

Evidence from the listing

Experience level

“Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners.”

What's on offer

Hybrid working
Full job description (from employer)⌄

Eden Brown Synergy are working with an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the MOD who are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner for 12 months. The role is full time, to start ASAP and paying £77.19 Umbrella per hour (inside IR35) PAYE options are available. The role require 3 days a week on site in Reading and 2 days at home. Key Accountabilities: Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become the trusted partner of the accountable leads. Effectively representing business partners in a wide range of stakeholder forums within the operating units. Ensuring that the services for business partners are delivered to the business rhythm in accordance with appropriate processes and systems. Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners. Ensuring the teams deliverables are: Produced to acceptable time, cost & quality, including but not limited to forecasts, budgets, procurement plans, reports and variance analysis. Produced to the required Business Rhythm. Ensure resource demand and supply issues are reported and communicated and the supported to drive an appropriate resourced position. Support, contribute, review and approve business cases Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.Key Responsibilities: Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads, customer budget holders and wider stakeholders, Steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities. Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs. Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives. Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications. Flexibility in undertaking duties unique to the needs of the business area and supporting the business to resolve complex problems. Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, affordable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits. Undertake scrutiny of business cases to ensure that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial) and through-life implications ensuring a robust risk assessment is undertaken. Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance. Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice. Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritising changes that will add the most value. Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas. Setting the direction, empowering, inspiring, motivating, and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual's personal development and careers.Please note you will need to hold active SC/DV clearance to carry out this post. Thank you Charlotte Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer. Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number (phone number removed). Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use

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