Finance Business Partner

**Finance Business Partner**

**Fairthorne Manor, Curdridge**

**40 hours per week - Monday to Friday (Flexible working hours considered)**

**Salary: up to £40,000 per annum**

**Benefits to you**:

- Employer pension contribution
- 25 days holiday FTE + Bank Holidays, increasing with length of service up to a maximum of 30 days
- Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 10 days per annum)
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Program with Health Assured
- 50% discount on nursery fees
- Day camps discounts: 1 week free and 1 week at 50% per child per annum
- Campsite and activities discounts at YMCA Fairthorne Manor
- Cycle to work scheme

**Job Purpose**:

- Support the Directors/Leadership team to understand the financial performance of their areas and identify actions needed to achieve the financial targets
- Provide commercial and business partnering support to drive good decision making and appropriate use of cash
- Ensure the statutory and regulated accounts are delivered on time and with clean audit opinions

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Provide high quality financial analysis to support decision making & take the initiative to improve business performance. Help identify commercial opportunities for each of the directors and support on business and capex cases
- Ensure budget and in year forecasts are produced collaboratively with leadership team and appropriate director and work with the directors to ensure overall performance is delivered
- Support with production of the management accounts and ensure monthly reporting is accurate and timely and variances are clearly identified and explained
- As part of the team, maintain control accounts, bank account reconciliations and other balance sheet items; ensure reporting is compliant with our obligations eg VAT/stat accounts
- Manage sales ledger, ensuring team are up to date with invoicing and payment allocation and support the team with debt chasing
- Manage restricted funding, working with the Head of Finance and Fundraising Team to ensure accurate records are held
- Assist with preparation of monthly KPI analysis
- Manage a team member in supporting the Housing business
- Contribute to policy development in areas relevant to the role.

**Person Specification & Key Competencies**

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- At least 1 year demonstrable and relevant experience in either a Business Partnering or Management Accounts Role; part qualified and studying for ACCA or CIMA is desirable
- Good level of IT proficiency especially excel
- Managing others and a team
- A dedication to inclusion
- Sound knowledge of accounting practices
- Some travel to other locations required within Hampshire to support the leadership team

**Personal Attributes**:

- A genuine enthusiasm for the work of the charity
- Ability to communicate well and engage positively with a wide range of people both finance and non-finance and clearly present financial information and explain the commercial impact
- Ability to influence and impact
- Self-Starter and well organised with a track record of using their initiative
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage a highly varied workload
- A creative and flexible approach to work

**Successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via Disclosure and Barring Service.**

**We are an equal opportunities charity with commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. A copy of this policy will be made available on request.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person