Role: Senior Finance Business Partner x 2 REF 102757
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid/Reading - 2 days on site (ad-hoc travel to Aldermaston or Burghfield)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
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.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
- Ideally looking for someone who is qualified
- Evidence of stakeholder management at senior level
- Evidence of working on large scale infrastructure projects
- Track record of leading businesses through forecasting and budgeting
- Beneficial to have experience in a highly regulated/defence/nuclear background
If you are a Senior Finance Business Partner, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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