Finance Business Partner

7 months ago

Chichester, United Kingdom WSCC Full time

**Working for us**
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

- an excellent **local government pension scheme**, **employers pension contribution at 19.70%
- generous holiday entitlement of **30** days plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional leave
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our**Staff discounts page** if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our **Rewards and Benefits page.**

At West Sussex County Council, we put our customers at the heart of all our services. The Finance Directorate plays a leading role in this, in enabling finances to crucially support the delivery of front-line services. As a result, we are responsive to customer and stakeholder needs through a dynamic, empowered and flexible team. By aligning resources, this allows us to provide a professional service appropriate to future organisational needs. This is in addition to keeping WSCC safe and secure through appropriate financial control.

The Directorate’s priorities are to ensure that the basics are done well whilst challenging the County Council to spend its money better, especially in the context of becoming more strategic and forward looking.

To find out more about this fantastic opportunity, keep reading
**The Opportunity** Salary**: £45,441- £48,474 per annum
**Working Pattern**: Full-time, 37 hours per week

**Location**: Your office base will be County Hall, Chichester and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office. This is led by the needs of the service.

As a high calibre finance professional, you’ll be used to working with big numbers. Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional finance business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?

We’re looking for a finance professional with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to clients. You will be responsible for advising and influencing the service to make informed financial decisions, which will have a direct impact on service delivery.

If you are looking for a diverse and exciting role which offers the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with the service, develop your talent and support senior officers by offering constructive challenge, assurance, recommendations and innovative solutions to add value to their service, then we would like to hear from you.
**What experience and skills are we looking for?**
As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:

- Strategic thinker - someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
- Relationship manager - someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
- Critical friend - someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience

**Key Skills**:

- Excellent analytical skills in order to interpret complex and varied financial and/or performance information and develop practical plans, strategies and budgetary solutions with an awareness of performance outcomes.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to make sound pragmatic decisions that take into account the on-going impact on performance and resources.
- Strong customer focus with the ability to work as a key client contact and provide a professional service to meet their needs.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills in order to interact effectively with a range of high-level clients and create and maintain effective working relationships. Including the ability to challenge and influence clients to make financial decisions that they would not otherwise make, to promote understanding of technical information and to successfully advise and guide client

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