Finance Business Partner

7 months ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Butler Rose Ltd Full time

The focus of this role is to manage a team of finance staff in building partnerships with senior management stakeholders across the university on a cross-section of financial, accounting activities and projects. The aim is to drive impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance and analysis, enabling a link to financial data to inform business strategies.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead and develop the team of Assistant Finance Business Partners (x2) and a clerical support team
- Lead the finances for universities largest Faculty and Open College of the Arts (separate legal entity) including oversight of P&L, B/S and responsibility for the preparation of quarterly forecast/ budgets
- Be the first point of contact for Curriculum finance reviews, large headcount management circa 2,000 staff (funding perspective), research bids, partnership opportunities, working closely with various levels of faculty stakeholders.
- Build and lead relationships with budget holders and stakeholders
- Lead, challenge and manage the budgeting monitoring, forecasting and financial planning
- Lead, manage, delegate and develop a Business partnering team.
- Supporting strategic and tactical projects and proposals as appropriate
- Financial systems management
- Advice and support in revenue generation from awarding bodies, public funds and bids, contracts and tenders
- Year-End guidance and support to key Client stakeholders

Skills, Experience & Background
- Extensive accounting experience and must be a qualified CCAB/CIMA Accountant
- Ideally come from a finance role in a complex organisation (ideally volume driven performance - module/ student numbers in a university faculty example), be comfortable with robust discussions and decision making.
- It's key that the individual is approachable but backed up by strong partnering, analytical and communication skills.
- Experience of SAP and/or complex systems is beneficial but not essential.
- Excellent team development and leadership skills
- Intermediate to advanced level Excel experience
- Experience of systems development
- Excellent negotiation, facilitation and conflict resolution skills

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.



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