Finance Business Partner

5 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Finance Business Partner - Birmingham/ Manchester/ Milton Keynes

**Location**:
Birmingham, GB

**Department Name**:
SC HR Business Partner - NW&C (109004) G5

**About Network Rail**:
Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter.** **When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. **Watch our video to find out more**

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don’t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

You will be part of the NW&C Region which consist of three routes - North West, Central and West Coast South - and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

To find out more about us - **Take a look here**

**Brief Description**:
**What will you be doing?**

Both available roles will be working within the North West and Central finance team. One will be working within the Central route supporting Operations and Birmingham New Street, whilst the other role will be working within the West Coast South route supporting the delivery of the Renewals portfolio.

Both roles will be supporting senior stakeholders to deliver challenging financial targets and efficiencies. These roles will report into the relevant Senior Finance Business Partner.

**There roles will be **preferably** based in Birmingham, but Manchester and Milton Keynes will also be considered. As part of working at Network Rail, you will get 28 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays, 5 days volunteering, 35 hours week, 75% subsidy towards your season ticket and 75% off leisure travel train tickets.**

**Salary **£43,588 raising to £49,037**.**

**About the role (External)**:
**About the role**:
1. Lead and provide financial advice and guidance to senior budget holders in understanding the impact of the period results and forecasts against budgets so they can understand their business better.

2. Be the expert in the relevant area on accounting practices and advice on financial results and forecasts for budget holders, including preparing period accruals, transfers, and adjustments to validate accounts are reflective, relevant.

3. Manage corporate governance throughout the cost centres they manage, conducting deep dives and reviewing compliance with financial regulations to protect the business from legal or negative consequences.

4. Deliver expert and accurate business review information and reporting and highlight any significant issues with financial and other business results to enable informed decision making by the business area.

5. Engage and influence senior members of the team to help them understand their financial position and use professional expertise to guide in initiatives to improve business performance. This will include challenging and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve their financial targets including efficiencies.

6. Build bottom up, detailed plans to manage and develop the production of business plans and budgets to enable good corporate governance and value-added analysis for senior leaders.

7. Collate, investigate, and make recommendation for investment appraisals and business case analysis to aid business decisions.

8. Model and analyse cost base and identify and drive opportunities and efficiencies to achieve area targets.
- **In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to be/ to have**:

- Membership (Or working towards a membership) of a relevant accounting body (CIMA/ACCA)
- Expert knowledge and experience of creating and maintaining accounts and annual budget
- Significant experience within relevant finance disciplines
- Strong excel skills and use of data manipulation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to interpret technical accounting regulations into everyday language
- Demonstrable effective influencing skills at a senior level
- Significant understanding of financial control and risk
- Excellent technical finance and accounting knowledge

**Desirable**
- Understanding of project management principles and experience of managing complex projects
- Membership of a relevant accounting body
- Extensive experience of Oracle based systems
- Degree or equivalent qualification in finance and accounting or business management or experience

**Some of our benefits include**:

- Subsidies of up to 75% rail and underground season tickets.
- My benefits - Our discounted online shopping site, general Network Rail discounts at various retailers across such as Gympass,Tesco, Currys PC World & M&S, you can get e-vouchers for Costa, Uber eats and ASOS, plus monthly

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