Community Integrated Care is on an exciting journey of transformation and growth and is looking to recruit a highly skilled Senior Finance Business Partner to join the charity on a full time, permanent basis.

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.
• Hybrid Working! Do you want to work from home? Or do you prefer being in an office? With this role you have the option of hybrid working from home or from our head office in Widnes - or a blend between the two!
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
• 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!
• Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing on line training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
• 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.

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role: Our Senior Finance Business Partner is our key to financial sustainability - helping Senior Stakeholder to understand their financial data and make really informed, commercially effective decisions to drive our charity's long term strategic objectives. About the Role (list not exhaustive see attached JD) This role will support our charity's Business Development team to achieve our growth targets. The role will require a really broad understanding of our charity's operations, structure, and financial models to develop, analyse, and evaluate new business opportunities. Ultimately, this role is responsible for understanding, analysing, and interpreting complex commercial finance data across the charity, or within their area of responsibility and explaining this in a way that is really easy for others to understand.
Day to day you will:

• Partner Senior Leaders in the organisation to make informed, financially sustainable, and commercially effective decisions through the provision, interpretation, and reporting of accurate MI, ensuring that information is operationally sound.
• Having brilliant conversations - working with senior leaders to really understand our regions, our services, what they need, and coaching them to find great solutions
• You will be a critical friend - providing financial expertise, insight, and guidance for your stakeholders to shape the delivery of department strategy, and ensure that plans, budgets, forecasts, are aligned to strategic objectives and are financially viable.
• Driving the financial sustainability of our charity - using creative problem solving skills and providing sound recommendations
• You'll be supporting our Business Development team to win new business - balancing opportunity, risk, charitable purpose and sustainability
• Developing new financial models
• Analysing MI and business data
• Driving the continuous improvement of our processes and systems so we can continually strive to be better

Your values:
Our Ideal Candidate

• You'll be professionally curious - see a problem ? Spot an inconsistency ? You need to know why !
• People might say you are a "safe pair of hands" - a professional to the core, you quickly build trust and confidence
• You love data - your favourite kind of day involves getting lost in a spreadsheet
• You are a brilliant communicator - you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
• You might describe yourself as a people person - you build relationships quickly, and find it easy to talk to anyone
• You'll be a qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA or equivalent)

Your skills and experience

• You'll have a strong commercial background
• You'll have experience working as a trusted finance business partner at a senior level and this might be in a large, multi-site environment
• You might have experience of working in a charity
• You might have experience working in social care
• You'll have worked in a fast paced environment, analysing and interpreting complex data sets and financial models
• You'll be a whizz with MS Excel - pivots, lookups, and formulae are all second nature to you

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date. Interested and want to know a bit more?
To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s
We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level. In our 2023 Colleague Engagement Survey, 56% (over 3,300!) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +28. This is a measure of how positively our colleagues talk about us - and 28 is an excellent score compared to other organisations!