Assistant Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Bedford Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Highways England Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our Finance and Business Services Directorate, based in Bedford. 
As part of your role, you will provide assistance and support to Finance Business Partners at a regional level, compiling and analysing financial data, checking and challenging performance against targets and providing professional advice and guidance regarding financial matters to ensure that the Directorate’s financial position and forecasts are accurately accounted for and that information is available to be used in the Directorate’s business decision making processes.
Provide support to the Finance Business Partners in delivering the strategic and operational objectives of the function.
Liaise with Project Sponsors and teams to produce monthly management accounts and reports, monitoring performance against budget/forecast and seeking explanations for variances.
Work in partnership with Business Management, Central Finance Teams and others to ensure that financial information is recorded and controlled in an efficient manner, utilising all available support and resource.
Work with the Finance Business Partner to ensure the analysis, review and challenge of forecasted and emerging costs and expenditure, both within year and across the life of any project, to enable assessment of value for money, delivery of expected outputs and achievement of proposed efficiencies.
Identify possible gaps and risks in the provision and application of financial policies, procedures and controls and offer advice for continuous improvement.
Part qualified accountant or actively studying for a CCAB qualification, or AAT qualified with finance, governance and commercial experience.
Knowledge and experience of using industry standard accounting systems, and working knowledge of MS Office components, especially creating and using complex spreadsheets.
Delivering outcomes and achievements in a customer and delivery focused organisation, working as part of a team.
Understanding of National Highways supply chain and the commercial drivers within those contacts.
Ability to grasp complexities of the business and understand the implications of applying specialist knowledge.
  There’s never been a better time to join our Finance & Business Services (FBS) team. 
Delivery is a huge collective exercise, with collaboration between Finance and Business Services - FBS - and every other part of the business.



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