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A northern home councties council are looking to recruit two Finance Business Partner who will play a key part supporting the Head of Finance and Finance managers in the provision of a high quality, flexible, professional finance support to service departments and react to service priority changes and adapts to current requirements.
- Provide robust financial advice to senior stakeholders, presenting information to departmental management teams on all financial matters relating to the post holder’s specific area of work
- Responsible for leading on the delivery of specific finance tasks supporting the annual financial cycle. This includes, but is not limited to budgeting, forecasting and closing the accounts.
- Undertake sensitivity analysis, reviewing and challenging budget decisions, options appraisals, costing exercises, leading on the detailed calculations underpinning any new funding and grants requests, development of business cases.
- Pro-actively seek opportunities to improve the financial support provided to the Council and identify and support the delivery of efficiencies in the service support.
To be suitable for the role you need to a qualified accountant or part qualified and actively studying, with a significant technical understanding of business partnering & stakeholder management. Excellent numerical & analytical skills with a high level of accounting knowledge.
If you are a pro-active, ambitious & inquisitive accountant striving to make an impact within local government finance then we want to hear from you.
Hybrid working arrangements are available.
