Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Connected Places Catapult Full time

**Location** - Milton Keynes

**Reporting to** - Group Commercial Accountant

**Working hours** - Full time

**Band** - 3.2

**Contract type/duration** - Fixed Term Contract until 6th March 2024

**Closing date**:

- 21st March 2023

**Who Are We?**

Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places. We provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel. We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.

**Purpose of the role**

We are looking to appoint a Qualified Accountant as our Finance Business Partner on a fixed term contract basis for 12-16 months.

Reporting to the Group Commercial Accountant you will work as part of a small finance team and be responsible for leading on financial analysis and commentary on our project portfolio, liaising, integrating and partnering with other departments within the business as necessary.

In addition, you will be the lead user of our project finance consolidation workbook, so this role will require very high levels of excel understanding.

This is a pivotal role which would suit someone with energy, excellent communications skills, and strong financial acumen looking to be part of a high performing team in an exciting organisation.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Reporting and analysis of project portfolio
- Partnering with Project Managers on large complex projects
- Senior finance contact for projects with key accounts, responsibility for periodic reporting of the portfolio performance of those projects
- Preparation of the budget for the project side of the business
- Continually challenge decision makers and senior stakeholders to justify business decisions, assumptions and evaluations that are pivotal to the planning and forecasting of the business’ projections
- Driving commercial and collaborative revenue stream forecasting and cost management initiatives across the entire business
- Maintenance and management of our Excel based project finance consolidation workbook, including planned updates and improvements.
- Month end project and intercompany journals, as required
- R&D Tax Credit co-ordination and liaison with our third-party agent
- Support the Group Commercial Accountant to provide day to day project finance support
- To deputise for the Group Commercial Accountant as required

**Requirements**:

- Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA
- At least 5 years post qualified experience
- Very strong Excel skills
- Project Accounting experience
- Experience of SAP Business ByDesign, Microsoft Dynamics, or extensive experience of alternative ERP systems
- Ability to learn new systems quickly
- The ability to deliver to tight timescales and deadlines consistently
- Excellent day to day planning and organisational skills
- Dynamism, aptitude for problem solving and teamwork, practicality, reliability, flexibility, and results oriented
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relations at all levels
- The ability to engage and influence colleagues to achieve common goals and objectives.

**Benefits**

**Holiday entitlement** - 25 days holiday entitlement for everyone (pro-rata if part time) plus a shutdown at Christmas (approx 3 extra days off)

**Pension Scheme** - We offer a competitive pension plan, helping you save for your future

**Volunteering** - Whether you’re looking to clean up a beach, are a school governor or charity trustee, want to support a local charitable event or use your skills and experience as part of a mentoring scheme for SMEs we are here to support you with two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata if part time)

**Payroll Giving** - Our Payroll Giving Scheme with GiveAll, is a flexible option which allows anyone who pays UK income tax to give back to their charity of choice on a regular basis from your pre-tax income - helping your money go further to those who need it the most

**Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) **- Provided by Health Assured, our EAP offers 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members

**Cycle to Work Scheme** - We love to cycle and as well as bike racks and showers at our two office locations, you can spread the cost of a new bike over a 12 or 18 month period, through payroll deductions

**Cash Health Plan** - We’ve teamed up with Westfield to offer you a range of generous health and wellbeing cash plans. This benefit allows you to be reimbursed for a wide range of both essential and everyday healthcare expense

**Tech Loans** - As an innovative, early adopter and future thinker, you’ll want the latest gadgets, so you have the option of buying any IT equipment and repaying it thro



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