Finance Business Partner in Belfast

Overview

Finance Business Partner – Belfast

Hours: 37.5 per week

Pay: £19.10 per hour

Key Responsibilities

• As Finance Business Partner to specific HSC customers, the postholder will support the Finance Business Manager in providing a range of financial and management accounting services and in year reporting to BSO external customers.
• Preparation of year end financial accounts on behalf of BSO external customers.
• Preparation of monthly management accounts for BSO external customers. This will include the production of regular, meaningful financial analysis reports to facilitate effective budgetary control.
• The postholder will review and report on the monthly financial services database and prepare in year customer assurance reports.
• Preparation of customer monitoring returns for DoH.
• Assisting with the annual budget setting process for customers, making recommendations for changes to the budget setting policy.
• Assisting in the production of meaningful income and expenditure information to customers.
• The post-holder will assist customers in undertaking the financial aspects of budget setting, service re-profiling, service developments/retractions and other ad-hoc financial costings as required.

Essential Criteria

• Part qualified Accountant having completed the foundation level of professional Accountancy examinations with one of the six professional accounting institutes (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, CIMA or ICAI).
• Have a minimum of 2 years\’ experience working in an accounting / finance role. This should include a minimum of 1 year experience within a financial management / management accounts role, which should include experience in regular budgetary reporting to budget managers, provision of support to budget holders and annual budget build.
• Have worked with a diverse range of stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation, to achieve successful outcomes.
• Have advanced IT skills in relation to MS Office (in particular Excel) applications and experience of working with financial systems including a computerised accounting ledger and budgetary control system.