Senior Finance Business Partner

Key Accountabilities:

• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become the trusted partner of the accountable leads.

• Effectively representing business partners in a wide range of stakeholder forums within the operating units.

• Ensuring that the services for business partners are delivered to the business rhythm in accordance with appropriate processes and systems.

• Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners.

• Ensuring the teams deliverables are:

- Produced to acceptable time cost & quality including but not limited to forecasts budgets procurement plans reports and variance analysis.
- Produced to the required Business Rhythm.

• Ensure resource demand and supply issues are reported and communicated and the supported to drive an appropriate resourced position.

• Support contribute review and approve business cases

• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment safety health security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads customer budget holders and wider stakeholders Steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities.

• Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs.

• Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.

• Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications.

• Flexibility in undertaking duties unique to the needs of the business area and supporting the business to resolve complex problems.

• Providing constructive challenge scrutiny insight and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable affordable aligned to strategy maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.

• Undertake scrutiny of business cases to ensure that cases provide value for money consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal commercial) and through-life implications ensuring a robust risk assessment is undertaken.

• Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance.

• Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice.

• Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams prioritising changes that will add the most value.

• Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas.

• Setting the direction empowering inspiring motivating and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual s personal development and careers.