The Opportunity:
For this Lead Finance Partner position, you will report to the Director of Finance and will provide high quality finance advisory services to their clients.
This is a 2ic position. Primarily you will provide high quality finance advisory services to clients. In time, you will oversee a team of Finance Partners and more junior finance staff, leading by example and coaching the team through continuous improvement.
You will be responsible for ensuring the finance function proactively supports the best interests of the schools and academies to achieve their objectives.
Some of the key responsibilities for this successful person would be but not limited to:
* Lead, proactively manage and influence a small team team to deliver KPI’s and business results.
* Coach and support the team to ensure they are as efficient as possible and continuing to raise the quality of the service delivered to clients.
* As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), support the business with expert technical knowledge and expertise.
* To provide specialist hands on support and advice to stakeholders in relation to a wide range of finance issues.
* To aid in the development of multi-year financial planning and monitoring, cash-flow management and the recording of fixed assets.
* To support clients with timely budget preparation, forecasting and monitoring.
* To ensure that each customers financial year is closed down in a timely and robust manner, and that the underlyi...