How would you like to be the Finance Director of your business area?

Do you want help and support finishing your professional qualifications?

Can you make finance easier for people to understand?

Here at the Coal Authority, we are looking for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Tema. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and In return, you will receive a competitive salary of up to £31,656.90 per annum.

We encourage applicants from anywhere in the UK – as long as you’re able to be in the Mansfield office for a minimum of 1-2 days a week and attend our regular team meetings in person, we embrace a hybrid working model as much as possible.

Who we are:

Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to making a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping people and the environment safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role in helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

About the role:

As our Assistant Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible to the Principal Finance Manager for providing the management accounting and decision support services to the Authority’s management teams, incorporating financial planning and analysis, commercial support, performance monitoring and reporting.

Our benefits:

• A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 27%!
• A choice of working patterns; full-time, part-time, job-share!
• Adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Diversity Network Groups
• Mental Health Allies
• Civil Service Sports and Social club
• Employee discounts
• Annual medicals
• £15 per month towards wellbeing
• A recognition scheme, where you receive extra money or vouchers
• Flexi-time to give employees freedom to vary their hours around personal preferences and commitments.
• Generous holiday allowance – 27.5 days annual leave, plus the ability to flex an extra 6 days in addition to 8 public holidays
• On-site free parking, tea, coffee and soft drinks in the Mansfield office
• Sponsorship and professional qualifications support
• Professional subscriptions paid

Key responsibilities of our Assistant Finance Business Partner:

- Financial planning and analysis to incorporate;

• Support the development and maintenance of financial models to support business planning and use in Corporate Plans, and Government Spending Reviews
• Support the production of departmental annual Budgets and Forecasts, providing challenge and actively participating in Accountability reviews
• Maintain and develop the management information reporting systems
• Support headcount forecasting, reporting, analysis and requests for incremental headcount

- Performance monitoring and reporting of actual results through the production of monthly Management Accounts, commentary and variance analysis, for multiple stakeholders (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Board, Management Teams, Budget Holders).- Commercial support to include:

• Support production, review and critique of business cases
• Support contract tender processes for goods and services
• Undertake financial appraisals

- Support the Authorities financial reporting and audit requirements as necessary, as well as ensuring compliance with HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money, Financial Reporting Manual and Fees & Charges.- Support accounting for Provisions, being the Authority’s future liabilities arising as a result of past coal mining activity.

About our Assistant Finance Business Partner:

• Part-Qualified in recognised Accountancy Qualification
• 3 years practical management accounting experience in the public or private sector
• Breadth of experience in utilising financial systems
• Advanced Excel user, intermediate proficiency in other Microsoft Office applications

For more information about the role please refer to the attached job description on our site.

If you believe you are the right candidate for the role of Assistant Finance Business Partner, then please click ‘apply’ now! We’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: Sunday 27th November 2022

Interviews are due to be conducted: Wednesday 30th November 2022

We would love to respond to all candidates, however due to the high volumes we receive, only candidates invited to interview will be contacted. Therefore if you have not heard anything within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We do encourage you to keep an eye on our website and see if there are any other roles that may be suitable for you.