Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

Blackfriars Station, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Finance Business Partner

**Location**:
Blackfriars, GB

**Department Name**:
Southern Region

**About Network Rail**:
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. **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.

**Brief Description**:
We’re recruiting for an experienced Finance Business Partner / Business analyst to be part of our Southern Region Finance Team.

Based at London Blackfriars, you’ll work under the direction of the Financial Controller/Senior Finance Business Partner, to deliver financial analysis information to management to aid decision making.
- Educated to a degree level standard or equivalent and / or studying towards finance qualification such as CIMA, ACCA
- Proven experience with data modelling including the use of appropriate data transformation tools such as PowerBI and PowerQuery
- Experience working as a finance business analyst, ideally in a construction industry within a matrix structured organisation
- 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

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities**

1. Lead and provide financial analysis and guidance to senior budget holders in understanding the impact of the period results and forecasts against budges so they can understand their business better.

2. Be the expert in the function on accounting practices and advise on financial results and forecasts for budget holders, including review, challenge and management of period accruals, transfers and adjustments to validate accounts which are reflective and relevant.

3. Be responsible for managing other, both financial and non-financial, transactional requirements of the business, completing periodic KPI reporting returns, balance sheet reviews and ad hoc group returns as required.

4. 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.

5. Deliver expert and accurate business review information and reporting using business intelligence tools such as PowerBI and highlight any significant issues with financial and other business results to enable informed decision making by the business area.

6. 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

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

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

9. Model and analyse cost base and identify and drive opportunities and efficiencies to achieve area targets.

Essential
- 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 including Power Bi and Power Queries
- 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
- Knowledge of coaching techniques

**Salary**: £41,711 - £46,925, plus Inner London Allowance of £3,270 per annum**Drugs and Alcohol Standard**:

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