We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to work for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary at their headquarters in Culham, Abingdon.
This role is a temporary position until at least the end of August 2025. Working Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week in a hybrid working environment. The rate of pay will be via Umbrella at a rate of £585 per day.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA, YOU MUST HAVE RESIDED CONTINUOUSLY WITHIN THE UK FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION. UNFORTUNATELY, ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS CRITERIA WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Job Purpose:
The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for delivering high-quality, effective financial information, advice, and support to the wider organisation. You will work closely with the organisation, up to Executive level, to influence and support financial planning and performance decisions at both operational and strategic levels.
Job Dimensions & Accountabilities:
1. Serve as principal financial advisor to the Directorates/Divisions, contributing to business planning and financial monitoring processes through leading and refreshing strategic and operational plans regularly.
2. Report monthly to the Board and Divisions, and support the completion of business cases to identify, quantify, and report on cost improvement plans.
3. Key decisions are made with finance present at the table, influencing, contributing, and challenging during the decision-making process.
4. 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.
5. 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 key finance deliverables requiring external and internal collaboration.
6. 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.
7. Lead Financial Support to projects: provide financial information to support business plans and business cases for projects, leading and directing other finance teams for the provision of detailed technical support.
8. Provide management support and advice with financial information and decision-making and business planning. Provide professional expertise and decision-support for managers across directorates and business partners in the FBE Team.
9. Coordinate the financial strategic planning cycle for all designated departments or Directorates and support/influence the overall production of the strategic plan covering a 3-5 year timescale.
10. 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.
Technical / Professional Skills:
1. Recognised professional accountancy qualification appropriate to the role e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.
2. Minimum of three years' significant financial management experience at a senior level gained from working within a large, complex organisation providing professional expertise in a similar role.
3. Able to interpret/analyze 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.
4. Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing, and change management skills.
5. The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
6. Some expertise in at least one of the following disciplines: strategic planning, performance management, risk management.
7. Knowledge of governance and assurance frameworks.
8. Excellent communication, engagement, and active listening skills to the needs of the business units.
9. Emotional intelligence, relationship building, conflict resolution, and the ability to challenge are also important.
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