Finance Business Analyst

The Service & Team:

Are you ready for an exciting career opportunity? Cornwall Council is embarking on ambitious corporate transformational plans, and our finance team is at the heart of it all. We are looking to grow our core team with more motivated individuals to join us on this incredible journey.

Why Cornwall Council?

• Dynamic Environment: These roles are more than just accounting jobs; they are opportunities to thrive in a stimulating and varied environment.
• Exceptional Team: Work closely with an outstanding finance team and the wider organisation.
• Professional Growth: Enhance your accounting expertise and gain invaluable exposure to core finance functions.

What We Offer:

• Supportive Culture: Be welcomed into a friendly environment that encourages your personal and professional development.
• People-Centred Values: Grow in an organisation that promotes a positive culture and values your opinions.
• Impactful Work: Use your skills to influence a variety of services and witness the direct impact of our work on our communities.

Your Voice Matters: At Cornwall Council, your opinions will help shape how we do things. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a real difference. Ready to make an impact? Explore our opportunities and become a key player in Cornwall Council's finance team. Your journey starts here!

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Finance Business Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and co-ordinating financial information that supports strategic decision-making. This role requires a keen eye for detail, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collate, interpret and communicate complex data in a clear and actionable manner. Additionally, the candidate will be adept at collaborating finance and non-finance people and fostering promoting a productive work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide financial management, technical and business planning advice, training and support.
• Provide advice and present financial information and reports to senior managers and boards.
• Support the business reporting managers on integrated financial and performance reporting for the organisation.
• Ensure the service's financial management and internal control arrangements are effective and support the development of plans to address weaknesses.
• Work with the strategic finance managers, business reporting managers, financial analysts, internal audit and other colleagues in the Council as required to establish comprehensive support arrangements to meet client and corporate needs in all areas.
• Support the development of plans to underpin the delivery of the Medium-Term Financial Plan.
• Support the review of major projects and key decisions and verify the effectiveness of management arrangements.
• Line management of finance professionals within the team.

This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday (but can consider flexible working options such as compressed hours, part-time or hybrid working).

What you'll need to succeed:

Essential skills and Knowledge

• Qualifications & Experience: You are a qualified accountant (CCAB with a recognised UK institute), with significant relevant experience in financial accounting and experience of managing teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Financial Planning: You have a strong understanding of medium-term financial planning, and the provision of accurate and strategic financial advice.
• Organisational skills: You are able to co-ordinate work across teams to ensure efficient and effective financial advice. Knowledge of project management tools and techniques.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Clear Communication and presenting information: You excel at explaining complex financial information in an easy-to-understand manner to non-financial managers.
• Coaching and mentoring: You foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Relationship Building & collaboration: You have proven ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and external partners.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert.

What you'll get in return:

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions.
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme.
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here. We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Geraldine.Baker@cornwall.gov.uk.

Application Process:

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

About Us:

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.