What's involved with this role: Interim HRA Finance Business Partner – Financial Services/Housing Job Ref: K&C 5255763 Pay Rate: £34.59 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Kensington, London The purpose of the role is to act as a Finance Business Partner for a defined service providing high level financial advice and support to the Directors / Assistant Directors and their Heads of Service. Key Responsibilities: Ensuring the requirements of the Council’s financial strategy are met. Proposals for any budget growth are robust. Ensuring adherence to corporate processes and timescales. Lead the embedding of SAP and self serve within their area of responsibility, thereby helping budget holders to make best use of the system Work collaboratively with Directors and Heads of Service in their departments and to members to ensure an integral part of decision making and a key player in all major pieces of work and projects e.g. procurement exercises, staffing restructures, service re-design. Respond to information requests quickly and accurately. Provide financial reports for departmental meetings as required. Draft the financial implications for reports to members and directors. Provide specialist technical advice relating to their areas of responsibility. Undertake financial appraisals of planned service changes, identifying any significant financial implications. Provide advice and support regarding the financial aspects of local systems. To ensure processes and procedures are robust, confirm to best professional practice and provide value for money. Evaluate legislative and policy changes and assess the financial impact on the service. Qualifications: Degree Educated or significant relevant experience. CCAB Qualified. Evidence of significant relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Planning experience and knowledge of rent setting and rent accounting systems. Experience of working with substantial budgets. Experience of managing complex financial issues in an environment of change. Ability to challenge and question the way things are done. An understanding of the current and future issues facing social care, local government and other partners, e.g. education, health and the challenges these pose for individuals and the organisation; social care experience. Previous experience in practice development / skills and knowledge development role with an understanding of the requirements of professional registration. Experience of producing reports on complex matters. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Mosaic). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states in broad terms where you reside - no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please