Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Kent, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £32.60/hour PAYE - working 37.5 hour/week. This role will require to be onsite 4 days per week.



Responsibilities:


- Ensure the provision of high-quality information and advice to Divisions and Directorates within the organisation, liaising with external organisations as appropriate.

- Look outwards to service providers and advise on budgetary control, efficiency and commercial considerations.

- Managing a small team, you will proactively ensure the appropriate use of resources and the provision of the optimum level of financial information and advice to managers at all levels.

- Influence budgetary accountability by means of formal periodic reviews of all financial performance.

- Lead and develop the team in delivering first class effective financial advice.

- Ensure the financial management function delivers timely accurate information to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders promoting and creating a customer focussed ethos for the function.

- Provide and execute first line support in the development and prosecution of business cases.

- Support the identification of cost efficiency and productivity opportunities within their respective Divisions using benchmarking information and being expert in using model hospital data.

- Role modelling efficiency and productivity within the organisation - propagating a culture of investing resource wisely and, first and foremost, preserving resource for high-quality people care.

- Be the communication conduit through which SLR information is developed and ultimately used within operational Divisions, proposing nuanced and prioritised opportunities for improvements in efficiency and productivity.

- Work as a team of Business Partners to upskill Divisional and fellow corporate colleagues in budgetary management and financial understanding.

Essential Skills:

- CCAB fully qualified

- Master’s Degree or equivalent experience

- Evidence of CPD

- Current member of relevant professional bodies

- Expert knowledge of accounting policies and regulations

- Expert understanding of the financial regime

- Three years PQE

- Experience of financial management in a complex organisation

- Experience of developing effective internal control environments

- Experience of development of efficiency improvement programmes

- Excellent communication skills

- Able to communicate with internal and external senior stakeholders

- Ability to present complex, sensitive and contentious information in a way that is understandable to the reader

- Ability to motivate staff to deliver change

- Capacity to analyse complex information from a variety of sources, both financial and non-financial

- Demonstrate ‘lean’ thinking on the delivery of financial services

- Clear ‘business focus’

- Able to interpret and provide sound judgement on highly complex issues

- Able to manage a multiplicity of targets and objectives

- Provide judgements regarding resource allocation where no precedent exists and where potential for disagreement at a senior level exists

- Required to plan and organise a broad range of complex and technical

- Assertive

- Political awareness

- Positive, ‘can do’ attitude

- Ability to cope with difficult people and situations managing conflict appropriately

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.