Senior Finance Business Partner: £90,000 – £92,000 | Birmingham | Hybrid
For Europe’s largest infrastructure project, we are recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner to drive accountability and focus on cost control for the Corporate Services Directorate. This is a key role measuring and reporting on financial performance and promoting effective decision-making of direct and indirect costs. Reporting to the Head of Finance Business Partnering and providing oversight, control and direction to a team of up to 4 Finance Business Partners, this role is key in ensuring the financial targets and value for money are met.
Main Duties:
* Manage, and develop the Finance Business Partner team to embed and drive a cost control and productivity focused culture across the directorate
* Lead the business case development process - reviewing and challenging funding requests to ensure they represent value for money
* Support business performance management, enabling senior executives to effectively manage their budgets
* Manage a diverse range of stakeholder groups with competing priorities and deliver tactical productivity initiatives across business areas
* Interpret and provide insightful analysis from management reports to enable effective decision-making processes across the senior management team
* Oversee the month-end financial close, preparing accounts, completing monthly analysis, variance analysis and assurance of reporting packs
* Support the business through annual business planning and budgeting. Provide quarterly re-forecasts working with non-finance executives
* Submit cash flows for business areas to supporting funding requirements
* Identify and implement process improvements, and drive the adoption of consistent reporting and financial processes across the finance business partnering, commercial and programme teams
* Provide first-class business partnering support to the business, reviewing and challenging forecasts and variances
Person Specification:
* Qualified accountant with strong experience of leading and managing finance business partnering teams
* Experience leading annual business planning and budget setting processes in complex, matrix managed organisations - ideally infrastructure programmes.
* Strong skills in business partnering key executive level stakeholder groups including planning, procurement, contract management and HR teams.
* Ability to critically review and challenge forecasts, assessing affordability, value for money and the impact on programme delivery