Senior Finance Business Partner in Reading

We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join a high profile organisation on a 12 month contract basis. This is a strategic finance leadership role where you will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing financial insight, challenge and guidance to support key business decisions.

You will be responsible for building strong relationships across the organisation, leading finance business partnering activities, overseeing forecasting, budgeting and financial planning processes, and ensuring the delivery of high quality financial information. The role also involves reviewing business cases, driving financial awareness, influencing senior leadership, and leading and developing finance teams to deliver business objectives.

This position offers a hybrid working arrangement based in Reading, operating a 9-day fortnight with every other Friday off.

Details:

• Working Hours: 8.00am - 5.00pm Monday - Friday, 9 day fortnight (every other Friday off)
• Location: Hybrid/Reading (2 days per week in the office)
• Duration: 12 months

Key Accountabilities:

• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become the trusted partner of the accountable leads.
• Effectively representing business partners in a wide range of stakeholder forums within the operating units.
• Ensuring that the services for business partners are delivered to the business rhythm in accordance with appropriate processes and systems.
• Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners.
• Ensuring the teams deliverables are produced to acceptable time, cost & quality, including but not limited to forecasts, budgets, procurement plans, reports and variance analysis.
• Ensure resource demand and supply issues are reported and communicated and supported to drive an appropriate resourced position.
• Support, contribute, review and approve business cases.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads, customer budget holders and wider stakeholders.
• Steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities.
• Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs.
• Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.
• Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications.
• Flexibility in undertaking duties unique to the needs of the business area and supporting the business to resolve complex problems.
• Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, affordable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.
• Undertake scrutiny of business cases to ensure that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial) and through-life implications ensuring a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
• Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance.
• Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice.
• Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritising changes that will add the most value.
• Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas.
• Setting the direction, empowering, inspiring, motivating, and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual's personal development and careers.