Senior Finance Business Partner- Place

3 weeks ago

Sutton, United Kingdom London Borough of Sutton Full time

About the Role

Sutton and Kingston Council is seeking an exceptional candidate to fill the role of Senior Finance Business Partner in its shared finance service. Whilst this role sits within the shared service, its focus is on Kingston Council only. It will focus its support on the council's Place directorate.

This key role supports the Head of Financial Business Partnering as well as the Strategic Finance Business Partner-Place by providing strategic support for services and their senior officers. The primary focus will be on revenue and capital. The successful candidate will take responsibility for:

being the senior finance professional for one or more directorates, which includes developing subject matter expertise and taking responsibility for ensuring that services produce accurate and useful financial information and forecasts based on sound assumptions and realistic estimates supporting services and colleagues to develop the medium term financial plan and then to deliver their services within budget providing direct support to one or more council directors, enabling them to play their part in protecting the financial health of the council providing high quality professional advice on the financial implications of corporate proposals and drafting financial comments within committee reports to inform decision making. About Us The Shared Finance Service ambition is to add value, inspire success and this role is part of the Shared Finance Service (SFS) collectively responsible for delivering SFS activities to realise this ambition. The role provides support to the Strategic Finance Business Partners to deliver financial support and advice to budget managers in Kingston Council, with the aim of enabling them to manage their budgets in a challenging financial environment. About You The post holder will provide financial business partnering support to the corporate core and front line service areas of the Council. The post holder will be required to act as a critical friend to the Council, delivering insightful financial analysis to support business improvement and change. Working closely with the Strategic Finance Business Partners and the Head of Finance Business Partnering, you will provide financial management support and advice to service areas across the core financial cycle of budget setting, budget monitoring and closing of the accounts. The post holder will support the management of financial risk to protect the financial health of the Council and to ensure financial planning is robust and aligned to Council priorities. Our Offer To You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only) Three volunteering days per year in Sutton or Kingston Comprehensive learning and development programme Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities Interest free season ticket loans Local Government Pension Scheme Car parking scheme Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme Zip car scheme Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses Confidential wellbeing and counselling support Subsidised gym membership

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