Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Finance Business Partner [CAPEX] - Manchester or Birmingham

**Location**:
Manchester, GB

**Department Name**:
SC Finance Director Central (453125) G2

**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**:
**Salary**: Band 4C, starting salary £41,711 raising to £46,925**

**Location: Manchester or Birmingham**

The purpose of this role is to work with the supported business leadership team, under the direction of the Financial Controller and Senior Finance Business Partner, to deliver professional finance and accounting advise. This role will be based within the newly formed NW&C Capital Delivery Buildings, Civils & Lineside Finance team.

As part of the fast-paced Capital Delivery function our team have a wide and varied workload covering an extensive Capex Renewals portfolio, Opex projects such as Reactive Maintenance and Minor Works, CP6 Efficiency targets, Financial Performance Measure, Headcount forecasting, P&L and Balance Sheet management and much more, all with a customer focus to support our business partners.

This is an exciting opportunity within a newly formed team as a result of NW&C CD’s new intelligent client operating model and as we move into the final year of CP6 and look forwards to CP7

**About the role (External)**:
1. Lead and provide financial advice 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 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

6. Build bottom up, 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

7. Identify and proactively manage commercial risks, including the financial suitability of new customers or suppliers reducing the potential risk impact on the business area and influencing decision makers.

8. Manage the performance of central accounting functions to deliver for the cost centre area to enable an efficiently and effective accounting service.

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

10. 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 exp



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