Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Akton Recruitment Full time

**Finance Business Partner**

**£35 per hour**

**Location: Haringey**
Akton Resourcing are currently working with a local authority to recruit a Finance Business partner on a 6-month contract. The role holder will be responsible for delivering effective management of an accounting team, acting as a mentor, providing excellent leadership, clear guidance on team priorities and ensuring that team members are adequately trained and adhere to continued professional development.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that Managers, Directors and Members, within a defined portfolio are provided with high quality strategic advice and direction on financial strategies, policy, standards, practices and legislative changes.
- Pre-empt financial risks and issues, devise mitigations and solutions, and support the relevant service departments in the implementation of these.
- Delivering a key role in support of the Head of Finance (Capital, Place and Economy) in the Council’s development of the Medium-Term Financial Strategy, through advising, challenging and guiding senior colleagues across a portfolio; whilst ensuring that all the proposals comply with corporate policies and the Borough Plan.
- Undertake longer term financial modelling and planning, ensuring that the Council benchmarks against the best in class in the pursuit of excellence.
- To support the Head of Finance (Capital, Place & Economy) across a defined portfolio of service finance areas, working with Directorate Management Teams.
- In the absence of the Head of Finance, provide Finance Representation at Priority, Programme and Project Boards, including service DMT’s.
- Work with Senior Managers to determine financial impact and policy responses to Legislative and Demographic Change.
- Review Benchmarking Information and Identify Action Plans for Savings.
- To support services in identification of funding sources for projects and preparation of bidding documentation.
- Partnership working and negotiation with organisations such as the GLA, DfT, TfL and others.
- Ensure Expenditure is in Line with Corporate Priorities and that budgets are set on this basis.
- Ensure budget monitoring position is clearly understood and reported and mitigating corrective action taken where an overspend is projected.
- High Level Understanding of Costs and Benefits of Alternative Delivery Options.
- Clearance of certain Committee Reports / Provision of Finance Comments.
- In the absence of the Head of Finance attend Member meetings.
- Key finance representative for senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Support to the delivery of projects with a complex financial implications or financial support to strategic service projects.
- Oversee budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors determining resource requirements.
- Working with external partners in building collaborative proposals and joint working arrangements and delivering positive outcomes.
- Ensuring the financial implications for Cabinet and other reports are robust and fully inform service and corporate decision making.
- Supporting the statutory accounts process and the delivery of the Council’s statement of accounts, the external audit opinion and associated financial returns.
- Participate and network with external agencies and partners nationally.
- Ensure all direct and indirect reports have adequate supervision, training and support and ensure that tasks are allocated in line with current priorities and deadlines, and work is planned and carried out in accordance with deadlines.
- To sign off and authorise work completed by direct and indirect reports, ensuring that best practice is being followed and high standards maintained.
- Participate in all council staff management and development processes including appraisals, my conversation, finance forum etc.
- To Deputise for the Head of Finance (Capital, Place and Economy) as may reasonably be required from time to time.

**Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**:

- Degree level or equivalent qualification or extensive relevant experience.
- Membership of appropriate professional body by examination e.g., CIPFA, or other CCAB body; plus evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
- Excellent communication, analytical and IT skills.
- Ability to work with high level internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to exercise initiative and good judgement in delivering service and Council aims and objectives.

**Start Date: ASAP

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