Role: Contract Finance Business Partner

Location: Hybrid, nearly all remote working + Oxfordshire Head Office as required

Rate: £550 - 600per day Inside IR35

Duration: 6 months - start September 2024

Key Skills: Delivering high quality, effective financial information, and advice and support to the wider organisation.

Our client: A public Sector organisation with responsibility for National Security and Public Safety.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provision of financial information: provide prompt and accurate budgets for all designated departments or Directorates. Provide up-to-date financial management information to budget holders, using facilitation and interpretive skills and sound judgement.
• Lead Financial Support to projects: provide financial information to support business plans and business cases for projects, lead and direct other finance teams for the provision of detailed technical support.
• Management support and advice: Provide support with financial information and decision-making and business planning. Provide professional expertise and decision-support in those areas for managers across directorates and business partners. Provide technical expertise to generate business information and insight from internal and external sources.
• Planning: Coordinate the financial strategic planning cycle for all designated departments or Directorates and support/influence the wider overall production of the strategic plan covering a 3-5-year timescale. Provide analysis and insight from external and internal sources to assist in the refresh of the finance and wider strategic plan and underpin operational plans. Coordinate stakeholder consultation annually to capture views about the priorities for inclusion in the finance strategic plan. Work closely with the Planning Performance and Risk team to ensure that key strategic and performance measures are understood together with the resource implications and any risks involved. Work with departments and Directorates for development of delivery plans that underpin delivery of the strategic plan. Lead the development of accurate and timely budgets and forecasts to enable delivery of those plans, supported by designated financial analysts/ senior financial analysts as appropriate.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Will act as the lead to manage the relationship with specific senior external stakeholders and senior internal stakeholders (Budget holders), influencing and managing the key finance deliverables requiring external and internal collaboration, Be the lead to ensure external and internal financial reporting needs are met.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Current NPPV3, SC or DV clearance would be highly advantageous.

• Recognised professional accountancy qualification appropriate to the role e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.
• Minimum of three years' significant financial management experience at senior level gained from working within a large, complex organisation providing professional expertise in a similar role.
• Able to interpret/ analyse highly complex financial and statistical data, reason, evaluate, draw appropriate inferences to enable innovative problem solving and report and communicate with multiple senior stakeholders with tact and diplomacy.
• Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing and change management skills.
• The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Some expertise in at least one of the following disciplines: strategic planning, performance management, risk management
• Knowledge of governance and assurance frameworks.

***You MUST be a full time Resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK without the need for VISA sponsorship. You need to have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years without any extended periods outside of the UK in that time to be eligible for the required level of security vetting, (NPPV3) ***