Job title: Finance Business Partner
MPA Recruitment, on behalf of one of Northern Ireland's Emergency Services, is seeking applications for Finance Business Partners. These are excellent opportunities for qualified accountants to play a key role in delivering high-quality financial management, governance, and strategic support within a large public sector organisation.
You will work closely with senior leadership teams, providing expert financial advice, supporting decision-making, and ensuring strong financial control, compliance and value for money across your assigned area.
Location: Lisburn
Hours: Monday – Friday, 36.25 hours per week
Salary: £24.41 per hour
Job Duties
To deliver a complete financial management service to specified Directorates within NIFRS and play a key role in the overall financial management of the organisation.
* To oversee the financial governance of specified Directorates, ensuring financial regularity, compliance and value-for-money within a framework of excellent customer service and continuous improvement.
* To support the senior management team within specified Directorates, reporting regularly to the Director as lead customer.
* Ensuring Directorates’ senior management are provided with sound and challenging advice on their plans, using knowledge and data-led insight to ensure value for money outcomes will be achieved, aligned to strategic objectives.
* Work effectively with the Strategic Financial Management team to provide high quality, data-driven insight and intelligence.
* To perform a lead role as custodian of NIFRS’s budget.
* To provide a challenge function to senior management in respect of financial decision making and governance to ensure value for money, compliance with the principles outlined in Managing Public Money NI and consistency with corporate objectives.
* To ensure the day‑day implementation of cultural change across the Service with respect to devolved budgeting by advocating best practice financial governance.
* To act as the key liaison between devolved and corporate finance to ensure consistency and compliance with strategic decision‑making.
* To ensure that budget holders are clear on their delegated budgets and savings targets, working proactively with budget holders to identify and develop appropriate forecasting methodologies to provide improved information to budget holders.
* To promote a high level of financial awareness and financial management across the Directorate, managing the design, development, planning and delivery of training products to meet learning requirements.
Essential Criteria
Applicants must be fully qualified accountants, having successfully completed the professional examinations, and be a full Member of one of the following bodies:
* Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
* Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
* The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
* Chartered Accountants Ireland
* Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland
* Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
* Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland
AND Minimum of two years’ relevant experience providing a comprehensive management accounting & analysis service to senior management.
Strong analytical ability with experience of analysing, interpreting and presenting financial information in a user-friendly way to support at least two of the following:
* Strategic decision‑making
* Effective financial management
* Effective performance management
* Process improvement
Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills and have worked with a diverse range of stakeholders achieving successful outcomes.
Strong IT skills to include experience using Excel at an advanced level.
Can demonstrate:
* Planning and organisational skills
* Deliver high quality work with excellent attention to detail
* Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
* Ability to work accurately under pressure of multiple deadlines
* Strong inter‑personal and influencing skills
* A strong customer orientation
Applicants must have a valid driving licence and a car available for official business use, or access to a form of personal transport that will enable you to meet the requirements of the post in full.
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