Finance Business Partner

City, Sheffield
Sewell Wallis Ltd

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be working with a Sheffield-based charitable organisation which is looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a full-time permanent basis.

We’re looking for a fully qualified accountant with sound stakeholder management skills who will be responsible for providing the first line of support and assistance with the development of financial plans, analysis of the financial performance and forecasts for a key arm of the organisation, in order to provide high quality business insight to both support and influence strategic decision making.

What will you be doing?

• Provide impactful and effective finance business partnering to Budget Holders, the Senior Management and Executive Teams
• Deliver high quality business and financial analysis, with detailed outcomes and benefits, to identify and present coherent rationales for change, to support continued coordinated, consistent and effective delivery of services
• Work with the relevant stakeholders to timetable the production of the charity’s monthly management accounts, the annual budgeting and in-year forecasting process that is aligned to business plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial management reporting, forecasting and analysis.
• Drive continuous customer experience improvement by simplifying and improving financial processes, to provide your collective internal and external customers, an efficient and effective finance experience.
• Provide financial acumen, support and challenge to income generation teams, including pricing and financial analysis of new and existing products, contracts and development of process efficiencies and definition of solutions for operational effectiveness
• Drive analysis and review of information and processes (including cost base and pricing) to ensure operations achieve value for money, sustainability and maximise their commercial output and resource efficiencies
• Provide insight through KPIs and reports that offer relevant insight and information on Enterprise business units
• Provide a clear and understandable narrative to stakeholders and the rest of the team, advocating good accounting principles and helping to educate, inform and develop others within the wider finance team
• Identify financial risks and ensure that adequate measures and controls are in place for them to be controlled and managed, or escalated where necessary.
• Work with operational business partners to provide the financial analysis and appraisal for bids, tenders and business cases, including cost/benefit of capex investment projects, and support the preparation and submission of business cases to Executive Teams for approval.
• Work together with commercial analytics team to provide insightful metrics, analysis and reporting to help explain and predict likely performance, highlighting risks & opportunities, including comparison of competitors and external market markers
• Utilise technology and tools to continuously improve the presentation and content of the charity’s financial management reports to best support and meet the needs of Budget Holders, the Senior Management and Executive Teams.
• The FBP also supports the Senior Finance Planning & Strategy Manager – Enterprise and operates within a team to deliver against the broader responsibilities and strategic direction for the Enterprise network and broader FP&A remit

What skills are we looking for?

• Professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• You’ll be a commercial finance manager or FBP and will have a strong background in analysis and presenting.
• Demonstrable, previous, extensive experience in a finance business partner role

What’s on offer?

• Remote working
• 25 days holiday (increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days) + bank holidays
• Pension contributions matched up to 8%
• Life assurance 2 x basic salary
• Holiday purchase/sell scheme
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Cycle to work scheme/ Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

Send us your CV below or contact Lawrie Bacon for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.