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.