Senior Finance Business Partner

Venn Group is partnered with a leading health charity to recruit a Senior Finance Business Partner for a 9-12 month fixed term contract.The successful postholder will play a crucial role in ensuring the monthly management accounts are prepared accurately as well as providing a key business partnering service with various internal stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Producing monthly management and service accounts together with other reports, within agreed timescales, seeking for increased efficiencies and investigating variances from budget, supplying full explanations thereof
• Carrying out a comprehensive finance business partnering service, including explaining financial budgets to non-financial department heads
• Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance
• Providing analysis and delivering insight that assists managers in understanding services that are not recovering full costs of delivering the service, i.e. services in deficit
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams
• Supporting the production of the annual budget and monthly forecast exercise working closely with finance colleagues and managers across the organisation to ensure that the process runs smoothly to set deadlines
• Assisting the System Accountant in maintaining an appropriate coding system, in consultation with other members of the accounts department, which assist budget holders accurately to assign expenditure to budgets
• Providing training to the Finance team and to operational staff as required, in order to enhance the level of financial skills within the organisation

Ideal candidate profile:

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• Experience of preparing management accounts
• Experience of working in a FBP function for a Charity Organisation
• Familiar with Audit and Budget procedures
• Advanced Excel skills including Lookups, Pivot Tables
• Proactive, flexible, and able to work both independently and in a team

Location: Central London

Duration: 9-12-month FTC, potential to move permanent

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Working pattern: Hybrid, once a week in the office

Day rate: £50,000-£55,000 per annum + excellent company benefits

This vacancy will be actively shortlisted so early applications are encouraged to avoid missing out.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.