Senior Finance Business Partner

3 months ago


Didcot, United Kingdom Diamond Light Source Full time

**Based onsite - **Harwell, Oxfordshire / some home working available**

**About Us**

Diamond Light Source is one of the world’s most advanced scientific facilities. We’re home to the UK’s synchrotron light source - a giant microscope producing beams of light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. Probing the structure and composition of matter, our work drives innovation in everything from vaccines to nanotech.

**About the Role**

We now have an opportunity for Senior Finance Business Partner to join Diamond’s finance team. The role provides an opportunity to take ownership of Diamond’s financial management function, ensuring all budgets, forecasts and internal reporting are accurately consolidated, there is alignment of assumptions and information is completed in a timely manner.

You will contribute, at both the strategic and operational level, to the financial planning of the whole organisation to underpin the Vision, Strategy and Delivery Plans of Diamond. You will provide clear direction and guidance to Directors and Budget Owners and strive for continuous improvement.

Managing a team of four, you will guide their progress and provide support to them on how to manage unpredictable issues that have to be solved from a financial perspective.

This role will continuously improve the financial management capabilities of Diamond; ensuring that the financial planning, analysis, and commentary are developed to facilitate informed and optimal decisions at all levels.

**About You**

You should hold a CCAB qualification, be highly motivated with significant experience in a senior finance position.

You will demonstrate experience in the following areas:

- Financial management - covering budgeting, forecasting and “value added” reporting.
- Financial Planning and Analysis.
- Management accounting concepts and general accounting procedures.
- Line management of a small team.
- Finance systems.
- MS office including Excel to pivot table and macro level.

You will have the ability to interpret financial data and have good communication and interpersonal skills; being able to effectively communicate financial elements to both financial and non-financial stakeholders and build successful relationships.

**Benefits**

Diamond offers an exceptional benefits package to support staff in achieving a positive work/life balance. This includes 26 days annual leave plus Christmas closure, public holidays, 2 annual volunteering days and flexible working hours. We also offer an excellent defined benefit pension scheme. Staff also have access to a range of amenities on site including a nursery, cafes, a restaurant and sports and leisure facilities. A relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.

**To Apply**

Other information
- Further company benefits
- Life at Diamond
- Nuvos Pension Scheme

Diamond is open to different ways of working and we are committed to supporting our employees to have more flexibility and autonomy over where, when and how long they work.

Where relevant, and possible for the role, we will consider flexible working arrangements, secondment and job share opportunities.

Diamond are members of Working Families (the UK’s work-life balance organisation), we have also achieved the Athena SWAN Bronze award and Disability Confident Level Two.



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