Finance Business Partner

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Finance Business Partner (Inside iR35)**

**Duration**: Interim - 6 months

**Location**: York/London 2 days per week (some other travel which will be covered by expenses)

You'll be joining our finance team, which is part of the corporate structure known as Finance and Business Support, this feeds into Route Services. Your role involves supporting the function to deliver services that are vital to the running of the railway, deliver the provision of services agreed by the routes to allow them to benefit from economies of scale and the optimisation of our critical resources.

We offer business partnering insight, guidance and financial support to 6 primary functions; Business Services, Commercial and Procurement, Information Technology, Asset Information Services, Supply Chain Operations, and Engineering Services, along with the Routes and Regions

The role involves providing finance business partner support to the Business Services team. Business Services provides both training and Shared Services support for the Network Rail regional business, including on-track competency training, apprenticeships and payroll support.

The Route Services finance team is predominantly based in Milton Keynes, but we also have team members and business partners based nationwide and would consider other locations for these roles

**As a Finance Business Partner your main responsibilities would be**:

- Be the expert in the function on accounting practices and advise on financial results and forecasts, including preparing period accruals, transfers and adjustments to validate accounts are reflective, relevant.
- Manage corporate governance for Business Services, conducting in-depth investigations and reviewing compliance with financial regulations to protect the business from legal or negative consequences.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Collate, investigate and make recommendation for investment appraisals and business case analysis to aid business decisions.
- Model, analyse and develop reports on cost base and identify and drive opportunities and efficiencies to achieve area targets and ongoing monitoring
- Cost tracking, headcount tracking

Essential
- Membership (Or working towards a membership) of a relevant accounting body (CIMA/ACCA) or equivalent experience
- 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
- Extensive experience of Oracle or Hyperion based systems
- Degree or equivalent qualification in finance and accounting or business management or experience

**Disability confident**

**We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.**

**Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.**- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._



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