Full job descriptionHM74: Finance Business Partner

Location: Reading | Up to 3 days per week onsite

Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Contract 12 Months | Inside IR35

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Finance Business Partner on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

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.
Duties and 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 and Qualifications:
*Previous finance business partnering experience.
*Excellent communications skills (written and verbal).
*Strong stakeholder management skills.
*Reporting writing and forecasting.
*Proficient in Microsoft Office.
*Experience with Fusion/SmartView.
*SC Security Cleared.
Location: Reading | Up to 3 days per week onsite

Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Contract 12 Months | Inside IR35