What You'll Be Responsible For:
As a Finance Business Partner, you'll provide essential services to our Operational Business, fostering strong working relationships with budget holders and ensuring a consistent finance presence in the relevant business areas. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Effective Communication: Engage and communicate effectively with budget holders and managers.
- Challenging Expenditure: Develop the confidence and skills to challenge spends, categorisations, and processes within your area.
- Active Presence: Maintain an active presence in all business partner areas.
- Meeting Participation: Attend and participate in Budget Holder meetings as needed.
- Variance Analysis: Prepare variance analysis commentaries on monthly reports.
- Report Management: Run monthly finance reports in SAP, exporting to Excel and Word.
- Budget Preparation: Assist in preparing zero-based budgets.
- Month-End Journals: Prepare and post month-end journals and accruals via SAP.
- Accruals Preparation: Run blocked and parked reports in SAP and prepare accruals.
- Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Analyse and reconcile balance sheet codes on SAP ledgers.
- Audit Assistance: Support internal or external audits by retrieving necessary information.
- Payment Runs: Cover weekly payment runs, payroll audits, one bill payments, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- TOTEX Reports: Prepare and distribute monthly TOTEX reports to budget holders.
- Forecasts and Business Plans: Prepare forecasts and Business Plans for relevant business areas.
- Financial Transactions: Accurately record and process financial transactions, ensuring management accounting reporting requirements are met.
- Professional Approach: Deliver financial information enthusiastically to non-financial budget holders and managers at all levels.
- Other Duties: Undertake any other duties as required to meet business needs.
Who You'll Work With:
Internal:
- Reporting to the Finance Manager
- Close collaboration with the Management Accounts Team
- Monthly contact with operational staff
- Internal audit
External:
About You:
Qualifications:
- Studying towards a recognized accountancy qualification or holding a recognized accounting technician qualification (AAT or similar) (Essential)
Experience:
- Demonstrable experience of working in a finance environment (Essential)
Knowledge & Skills:
- Enthusiastic about putting customers first (Essential)
- Robust systems and processes knowledge to produce accurate data (Essential)
- Proficiency in SAP financial modules (FI/CO) (Essential)
- Strong IT skills, especially in Microsoft Excel and Word (Essential)
- Effective communication skills with finance team members and budget holders (Essential)
- Ability to analyse and interpret financial information (Essential)
- Professional engagement with key budget holders (Essential)
- Ability to communicate in Welsh (Desirable)
Benefits:
In addition to a competitive salary and 33 days of annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards, including:
- Variable pay schemes with potential yearly bonuses
- Enhanced employer pension contributions up to 11%
- Family-friendly policies
- Progression opportunities with funded training, coaching, and mentoring programs
- Discounts on gym memberships and high street shopping
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car-leasing scheme
- Health CashBack scheme
- Employee assistance program for employees and immediate family
Join a not-for-profit company that values customer trust and cares about our beautiful environment every day. Apply now to become a part of our dedicated team!