Finance Business Partner

Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join the Civil Nuclear Constabulary at their headquarters in Culham, Oxfordshire.

This is a temporary role until March 2025 and you will be working Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.

PLEASE NOTE DUE TO THE POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE RESIDED WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION. UNFORTUNATELY ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

JOB PURPOSE :-

The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for delivering high quality, effective financial information, and advice and support to the wider organisation.

You will work closely with the wider organisation, up to Executive level, to influence and support financial, planning and performance decisions at both an operational and strategic level.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Serve as principal financial advisor to the Directorates/Divisions, contributing to business planning and financial monitoring processes through leading with and refreshing strategic and operational plans on a regular basis.
Report monthly to the Board and Divisions, and support the completion of business cases to identify, quantify and report on cost improvement plans.
Key decisions are made with finance present at the table, with the Finance Business Partner influencing, contributing and challenging and seeking solutions during the decision-making process.
Support good business governance and enable delivery of strategic and operational business plans by providing an in-house consultancy and advice service for internal customers.
Will act as the lead to manage the relationship with specific senior external stakeholders (such as SLC's) and senior internal stakeholders (Budget holders), influencing and managing the key finance deliverables requiring external and internal collaboration.
Provision of financial information: provide prompt and accurate budgets for all designated departments or Directorates. Provide up-to-date financial management information to budget holders, using facilitation and interpretive skills and sound judgement
Lead Financial Support to projects: provide financial information to support business plans and business cases for projects, lead and direct other finance teams for the provision of detailed technical support.
Management support and advice: Provide support with financial information and decision-making and business planning. Provide professional expertise and decision-support in those areas for managers across directorates and business partners in the FBE Team. Provide technical expertise to generate business information and insight from internal and external sources. Seek feedback to inform continuous improvement of planning and financial performance.
Planning: Coordinate the financial strategic planning cycle for all designated departments or Directorates and support/influence the wider overall production of the strategic plan covering a 3-5-year timescale. Provide analysis and insight from external and internal sources to assist in the refresh of the finance and wider strategic plan and underpin operational plans. Coordinate stakeholder consultation annually to capture views about the priorities for inclusion in the finance strategic plan. Work closely with the Planning Performance and Risk team to ensure that key strategic and performance measures are understood together with the resource implications and any risks involved. Work with departments and Directorates for development of delivery plans that underpin delivery of the strategic plan. Lead the development of accurate and timely budgets and forecasts to enable delivery of those plans, supported by designated financial analysts/ senior financial analysts as appropriate.
Stakeholder Relationships: Will act as the lead to manage the relationship with specific senior external stakeholders (such as SLC's) and senior internal stakeholders (Budget holders), influencing and managing the key finance deliverables requiring external and internal collaboration, Be the lead to ensure external and internal financial reporting needs are met.ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

Technical / professional skills - gained through qualification and experience for financial reporting, budgeting, option appraisal, costing and forecasting, to include:

Recognised professional accountancy qualification appropriate to the role e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.
Minimum of three years' significant financial management experience at senior level gained from working within a large, complex organisation providing professional expertise in a similar role
Able to interpret/ analyse highly complex financial and statistical data, reason, evaluate, draw appropriate inferences to enable innovative problem solving and report and communicate with multiple senior stakeholders with tact and diplomacy
Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing and change management skills
The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Some expertise in at least one of the following disciplines: strategic planning, performance management, risk management
Knowledge of governance and assurance frameworks

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