Description
Overall Purpose:
A Senior Finance Business Partner (SFP) is a key role in supporting the delivery of major programme and/or Business Unit (BU) objectives. As a valued member of the Senior Management Teams (SMT) for the UKIFS major programme areas, the SFP provides financial support in a range of activities covering strategy, planning & analysis, accounting, reporting, bids and costing support, and ad hoc project work. Whether providing financial input into the 5 Year planning process, a new business case, or closing the monthly accounts, a strategic outlook, accuracy, timeliness, collaboration and understanding of performance are essential in this important & high-profile role.
Accountabilities:
- To be the key Finance Partner for the programme area or BU; acting as the key point of contact for all finance related matters of programme or BU delivery.
- Work closely with the programme or BU SMT to ensure that programme or BU objectives are delivered and to provide challenge around financial performance.
- Review and analyse performance, producing reports and commentary for the monthly management accounts, individual project managers and business unit management to enable monitoring of profitability against budget, reasons for major variances, and risks and opportunities.
- To ensure provision of consistent high-quality financial information reinforced by high-quality insight and financial advice supporting the programme / BU to deliver the right financial outcomes and to help drive sustainable performance improvement.
- Work with the Head of Financial Accounts to ensure accurate recognition of expenditure & revenue in accordance with UKIFS financial policy & where appropriate with IFRS15 Revenue from contracts with customers; ensuring that aged debt is kept to a minimum.
- Working closely with your SMT & business area to ensure successful delivery of business strategic planning budgeting and forecast processes.
- Build effective working relationships with your key PM's and other relevant senior managers/stakeholders to enable creation of robust programme or BU budgets as well as periodic forecasts at project level as well as consolidated business unit level.
- Support maintenance of a robust control environment including responsibility for relevant balance sheet accounts appropriate to business area such as prepayments accruals Work in Progress Income in Advance being fully reconciled with adequate supporting documentation available for audit purposes.
- Act as key point of contact for programme audits & ensure all audit requirements are met.
- Follow up on internal audit actions ensuring they are closed out within agreed timescales.
- Support finance wide initiatives such as testing new reports upgrades along with other ad hoc work.
- Support overall capability within finance by leading on initiatives/procedures which improve processes necessary for managing programmes / enhance technical capability among junior team members through training/coaching.
Qualifications Required:
A qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA) or qualified by experience.
Experience Required:
* Experience working closely with senior business managers & teams in a "business partner" capacity.
* Experience managing overheads/indirect costs.
* Experience longer term planning/projects.
* Experience using an ERP accounting system; experience using Unit 4 (Agresso) would be an advantage.
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