Finance Business Partner

What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You may be required to visit services and attend meetings at our regional offices, but otherwise you can work from home.
• Competitive Salary: £35,000- £40,000 per annum (dependent upon experience) plus a £5,000 car allowance
• Holiday Purchase Scheme: up to 5 days
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: life assurance, retail discounts, leisure savings, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Employee of the month scheme
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life
• We will also pay for your DBS

• Provide excellent financial analysis, advice and guidance to the Managing Director and local leadership teams to enable them to effectively manage their regional business.
• To input, monitor and challenge the region’s five-year growth strategy.
• To ensure all significant financial risks and opportunities potentially affecting short and medium-term projections are all captured and ideally minimised or exploited.
• To cost all new business within the Central region. This is ensuring that it’s financially viable alongside being commercially shrewd to deliver corporate growth targets.
• To fully understand the full Central operation including all nuances to help partner and give sensible and rounded advice to deliver financial improvements.
• To work with the Management Accountants to ensure that the actual and target information in the ERP system are as a representative and realistic as possible.
• To work on set initiatives across the organisation to ensure we have a standardised UK wide approach on our financial processes and reporting.
• To scrutinise and challenge assumptions that build any short, medium and long-term projections.
• Help prepare business cases regarding new business or cost investment ready for Executive approval.
• To communicate, justify and negotiate with Local Authorities regarding fee rates and contractual requirements.
• To work across multiple regions to assist during busy periods.
• Working with our Director of Partnerships and Communities on our grants and fundraising strategy alongside ensuring accurate transactional accounting.