VENN GROUP
Deputy Finance Business Partner
Location: remote working / London based
Length of contract: 6 months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Clearance required: SC Clearance Essential
A Central Government organisation is seeking a Deputy Finance Business Partner to support the Strategic Finance Business Partner to deliver and embed a co-ordinated business partnering function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to enable the Strategic Finance Business Partner to influence and deliver value
- Support the Strategic Finance Business Partner with the design, build and maintenance of service-based costing models. 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 develop value adding initiatives
- Partner existing and emerging change projects and programmes, including supporting the production of business cases and providing financial assurance and advice
- Work closely with Commercial to ensure value for money, financial accountability for contracts, supporting the production of investment appraisals and addressing governance issues
- Develop analytics that support the tracking of operational demand (including trend analyses) to inform the business planning and budgeting process
- Attend meetings as appropriate to understand costs, risk, demand as well as supporting the production of business cases and funding bids
- Provide leadership, direction and management of a small team to support their objectives
Key Requirements:
- Effective communication skills; ability to explain things clearly either verbally or in writing in the most appropriate style and tone
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders within a business, achieving an appropriate balance between customer care, responsiveness and delivery of professional advice
- Strong planning skills; able to formulate and implement long term strategic corporate plans
- Experience of advising and guiding business decisions and frameworks in order to ensure compliance, manage risk and support governance arrangements
- Extensive experience in: Financial Management & Planning in complex organisation, Budgeting & Forecasting and Management Reporting
- Experience in providing Financial Management Advice and developing Mitigating Strategies
- CCAB or equivalent
If you have the right experience for this role and feel your skills and experience match the requirements, or if you would like more information on the role, please contact
Sara Panti on 020 7557 7667 and email your CV to spanti@venngroup.com
