Senior Finance Business Partner

The successful candidate will likely have the following responsibilities:

• Work with head of department to develop and build the reporting and financial management of key contracts to support KPI delivery at strategic level.
• Support the Head of Finance to drive improved delivery, utilisation and efficiency of finance processes and resources with indirect management of a small finance team.
• Develop a framework of reporting with the delivery teams to understand contract performance and to coordinate and review against expected contract outturn.
• Work to enhance business wide understanding of the contract's key performance indicators as part of the periodic reporting cycle to inform better business decisions.
• Build strong strategic internal relationships with HoD's to ensure operational improvements and BAU meets business requirements.
• Driving effective communication and ensuring timely and effective communication with key stakeholders.
• Lead on business forecasting, with an active role in setting targets on costs, savings, opportunities etc. in line with contracted financial targets.
• Assisting, supporting and enabling senior management to make informed financial and operational decisions, both short and long term and providing financial support to the business as and when required
• Lead on continuous improvement of departmental and finance information processes through seeking to develop best practise and collaborate with peers, colleagues and customers to enhance overall performance.
• Lead and motivate all the Finance staff to deliver the main objective and purpose, identifying knowledge gaps and seeking to improve the overall capability and efficiency of the finance team.
• Leading on adhoc project work to support the team as and when required.
• Ensure a proactive, solution focussed approach to the development and implementation of change initiatives.
• Work with the Commercial department to update the Working at Risk register and feed the financials into the monthly billing (AFP) to the customer.