Finance Business Partner

My client, within Central Government, are currently recruiting for an experience Finance Business Partner to join their team based in Earls Court, London on a contract basis of an initial 6 months with a view to extend. The rate on offer is £650 per day (Umbrella rate within IR35).

The Deputy Finance Business Partner is tasked with supporting the Strategic Finance Business Partner in ensuring that the client achieves value for money and maximises value from the services it delivers while meeting the needs of the Business. This will be achieved by providing insight, challenge and professional analytical support at both strategic and operational levels, highlighting potential risks/opportunities and identifying options to drive continuous cost reductions and performance improvement within a reducing budget envelope. This includes:

* Supporting the Strategic Finance Business Partner in providing the Executive with value added and timely analysis regarding actual results and forecasts, proposing options to ensure the organisation achieves its operational goals, whilst continually reducing costs and transforming services.
* Building strong relationships with the Business Groups (supporting the Strategic Finance Business Partner) in order to influence and deliver value for the client through the implementation of the financial strategy.
* Support the Strategic Finance Business Partner with the design, build and maintenance of costing models that address structure and service issues. The analysis should address the commercial needs of the business and focus on identifying areas of improvements, controlling spend and continually analysing critical categories of expenditure in order to help implement the financial strategy.
* Provide support for projects including business and strategic planning, investment appraisals, acquisitions, disposals and contract bids.
* Assist the Strategic Finance Business Partner and Strategic and Corporate Finance in producing and managing the group budget and strategic plan process, including providing effective support during the budget process through analysis of divisional budget proposals and presentations to ensure that budgets and savings plans are robust.
* Develop analytics that support the tracking of operational demand (including trend analyses) so that Business Groups can effectively introduce demand management mechanisms where applicable for the services.

Experience
* Experience of advising and guiding business decisions and frameworks in order to provide assurance on:
* Compliance with financial regulations, standing orders and schemes of delegation,
* Managing risk
* Supporting best practice governance arrangements.

Extensive experience in:
* Business Analytics and associated techniques
* Investment Appraisal
* Financial Management & Planning in complex organisation
* Budgeting & Forecasting
* Management Reporting
* Providing Financial Management Advice and developing Mitigating Strategies
* Experience/knowledge in:
* Assessing the commercial impact of alternative service delivery models
* Public sector procurement and contract management

Professional/external qualifications
* Required: CCAB or equivalent membership
* Advantageous: Post graduate qualification e. MBA or equivalent


Please note: Any successful candidate will be required to go through their specific Counter Terrorism Check which can take up to 12 weeks to complete, so please only apply if this is acceptable and you're happy to wait for this to be completed before starting in this position.