Finance Business Partner

Responsibilities: * To provide support and financial advice to all levels of the organisation and to inform decision making, recognising the services delivered and the framework in which the business operates. * Prepare and present effective financial analysis to allow service areas to understand their relative financial performance to demonstrate value for money. * Deliver a high-quality service which supports Budget Holders to develop and effectively manage a robust budget, attending management team meetings to present financial performance information updating forecasts with explanatory commentary for inclusion in management accounts packs to SLT/Board. * To produce the Balance Sheet reconciliations for those expense codes identified as being under the control of the Finance Partner for relevant service areas e.g., accruals, prepayments. * Ensure financial information is provided to the Finance Manager (Operational) in accordance with accounting policies to produce the notes to the financial statements. * Monitor and review the financial performance of the relevant service areas, explaining complex financial performance to non-financial colleagues. * Monitor and review compliance expenditure, ensuring service charge costs are appropriately allocated. * Ensure that financial controls are implemented and applied throughout the organisation in accordance with the Delegatory Framework, and that all reporting deadlines are met. * Effectively liaise with the Financial Transaction Team to improve systems and processes to improve the quality of accounts adjustments which subsequently minimise the volume/value of said adjustments. * Provide information to the Finance Director to deliver and continuously improve the organisation's long term financial plans. * To support on value for money reporting and financial strategy in relation to performance surrounding KPI's and identify and drive cost saving initiatives across the respective areas. * Understand and model the impacts of operational performance on financials, support modelling reviewing performance surrounding establishment, structure utilisation and customer satisfaction. * Drive internal system improvements surrounding reporting within systems ensuring the most efficient use of resources within finance. * Provide training and support to budget holders to enable effective financial management building connections between planned and responsive spend. * To support internal audit work as required. * Other duties as and when required Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website