Finance Business Manager
Job Description
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced Finance Business Manager with strong business partnering capabilities to support our portfolio of Children's Services across the Central England Region. The successful candidate will work closely with the Assistant Director of Finance, contributing to all aspects of financial management and strategic financial support.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Provide financial analysis and modelling for the Assistant Director of Finance to support them in ensuring financial targets are monitored, reported against, variances are addressed and any changes that may impact medium term business strategy are incorporated into the budget, forecast and monthly reports to the Regional / Nation Directors
- Contribution to the annual budget process and forecasting, within the financial year and longer term including the uploading of budgets and forecasts.
- Support operational management of localities with resources for; budget reviews including contribution to the annual budget process, forecasting within the financial year and longer term.
- Support the development, implementation, monitoring and review all financial and budgetary systems and procedures in accordance with financial standards
- Support the management of service contracts and tenders, in conjunction with locality ADCSs, Business Development colleagues and Commercial team.
- Provide contract information on funding agreements for invoicing purposes, working alongside Accounts receivables team.
- Support on providing data and documentation to both internal and external auditors.
About us
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Job responsibilities
pplicants should have experience of budgeting and accounting systems including expenditure & income monitoring, invoicing and petty cash management and must be able to work on their own initiative. Stakeholders will seek a lot of finance support from the incumbent and therefore good communication- and people skills are extremely important.
Acute finance knowledge is necessary as is the ability to break down financial information for the benefit of non-finance colleagues. Experience of constructing detailed budgets emphasising full cost recovery is essential and a key part of this role.
Educated to a good standard with excellent numeracy and literacy skills, you will have the ability to operate computer-based systems such as Excel and Dynamics 365.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 2 years experience as working at managerial level within business partnering team, supporting budget holders.
- Providing managers with solutions to problems
- Understanding of the voluntary sector and government funding
- System literate, ideally with experience of Dynamics 365
- Producing budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts, including variance analysis
- Proven written and verbal communication skills, including with managers.
Skills
Essential
- Exceptional ability to develop, foster and maintain excellent relationships across a diverse range of external and internal stakeholders.
- Dynamic, energetic and enthusiastic approach to work
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills; can communicate succinctly to a variety of stakeholders up to director level.
- Ability to self-manage and possess strong interpersonal skills to work well as a team player.
- Willing to adapt to changing priorities, and flexible enough to respond to the demands of a growing and complex organisation.
- A flexible and friendly attitude with the willingness to learn and enjoys working in a high achieving environment.
- Excellent attention to detail essential
- Possess strong IT capabilities, in particular Excel, as well as other Microsoft packages.
Employer details
Employer name
Barnardo's
Address
Tanners Lane
Barkingside
Ilford
Essex
IG6 1QG
United Kingdom
