Senior Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Senior Finance Business Partner

**Location**:
Milton Keynes, GB

**Department Name**:
Finance

**About Network Rail**:
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 your part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions.

We're continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation which is representative of the passengers we serve. To do this, it is essential we become a more open, diverse and inclusive organisation, harnessing the skills and expertise of all our people and attracting the best talent to help us have a safe, accessible railway for everyone.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

Our finance function is key to our success. Our diverse and high-achieving team is responsible for ensuring we secure appropriate funding and get the best possible value for the money we spend, driving forward our continuing mission to transform the UK’s rail network into a world-class infrastructure.

**Brief Description**:
We are looking for a **Senior Finance Business Partner **to fill a **Permanent** opportunity based in Milton Keynes. You will be required to work as an integral member of supported business senior leadership team, to proactively identify, plan and meet the finance needs of the business to improve business performance, in coordination with other members of the wider finance team as required. To positively challenge Senior Leaders, budgets, and business activities to enable the best business outcomes are delivered.

The role will be focussing on HR strategy and Systems thinking interventions, in particular embedding efficiency into regional and functional fishbones and co-ordinating Business planning activity between Technical Authority, System Operator and Corporate Services

**About the role (External)**:
**What will your day look like?**

The role of **Senior Finance Business Partner** **is a multifaceted role in that you will undertake various duties including (but not limited to):

- Consolidate, critically review and provide technical advice and guidance on periodic financial results and forecasts to Identify and monitor risks, opportunities and efficiencies to minimise the financial and legal impact on the business area.
- Provide robust professional recommendations and financial guidance on accounting guidelines and standards to enable the business to be financially and legally compliant.
- Provide technical and professional oversight of the periodic accounts, relevant analysis and preparation of business plans and budgets to enable the business to make effective decisions.
- Develop, understand and influence the cost and income drivers relevant to the business area to deliver the yearly business plan and manage to the overall settlement by effective decision making.
- Influence, coach and challenge senior budget holders in understanding the impact of their period results and forecasts against budgets in order to manage their business more effectively and manage within budgeting limits.
- Proactively challenge budget holders plans and budget submissions to understand the overall plan, providing advice and new initiatives to save costs and be more efficient as an organisation.
- Drive, adapt and deliver key KPI’S and deliverables for the function, highlighting any significant issues and trends with financial and other business results to aid decision makers to make efficiencies.
- Lead in budget holder key meetings on financial performance to provide professional financial advice and guidance to drive business decisions, minimise risk and deliver good corporate governance.
- Develop, drive and implement investment decisions and new business activities, working collaboratively with senior leaders to explore new opportunities and drive business performance.

**Person Specification**
- 1. Membership (or working towards membership) of a relevant accounting body (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW) or equivalent experience

2. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills all levels. This should include Customers; 3rd party representatives, other business & functional leaders and key support personnel.

3. Successful relevant experience working in a complex financial environment including demonstrable experience in managing business risks, professional financial control and forward planning.

4. Demonstrable record of budget management, governance and ability to understand and interpret commercial and financial landscapes (budgets, forecasts, actual status).

5. Significant experience in managing ambiguity in a financial environment with strong evaluation and decision-making skills.

7. Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, for example accounting and finance, business manage

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