Strategic Finance Business Partner
Strategic Finance Business Partner
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14-06-2025
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Job Description
3-4 months contract with a local authority
Job Purpose
- As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate you will be the senior finance professional for the area developing subject matter expertise and providing robust financial leadership. You will lead and manage the provision of business partner support ensuring your teams resources are targeted towards managing key financial risks and major budget pressures. Additionally you will support the Head of Financial Strategy to lead and coordinate medium-term financial planning for the Council s budgets.
Key Duties/Accountabilities
- Provide direct support to the Councils directors across its Resources directorate enabling them to protect the Councils financial health.
- Challenge and test service budget proposals to ensure they are realistic viable and commercially sound.
- Act as the service gateway to the Shared Finance Service ensuring stakeholders have access to high-quality professional advice.
- Support and challenge services to manage key financial risks.
- Provide high-quality professional advice on the financial implications of service proposals and draft financial comments for Committee Reports.
- Lead on the development of a culture that encourages challenge and empowers staff to deliver more from their financial resources.
Essential Experience Required
- Experience of working alongside senior managers in a Senior Finance role
- Experience of working within a finance team which is customer focused
- Experience of delivering strategic finance advice within a large and complex organisation
- Experience of providing advice and challenge to budget holders managers and Finance colleagues.
Essential Qualification Required
- Completed a relevant professional qualification that supports delivery of functional responsibilities (e.g. CIPFA CIMA MBA etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience of operating at that level.
Additional Information
- Working hours: 36 hours per week
Application Deadline: The role closes soon please apply ASAP.
Requirements
Requirements
- Relevant professional qualification (e.g. CIPFA CIMA MBA etc) or equivalent experience
- Experience in a senior finance role
- Experience in strategic finance advice
- Customer-focused finance team experience
As the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Resources Directorate, you will be the senior finance professional for the area, developing subject matter expertise and providing robust financial leadership. You will lead and manage the provision of business partner support, ensuring your team's resources are targeted towards managing key financial risks and major budget pressures.
Education
Completed a relevant professional qualification that supports delivery of functional responsibilities (e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, MBA etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience of operating at that level.
Employment Type
Full Time
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