Finance Business Partners

Our client a large public sector organisation requires a Finance Business Partner based in Cookstown.

Role: Finance Business Partner

Rate of Pay: £24.41ph

Location: Cookstown/Lisburn - travel between sites will be required.

Hours: 36.25

Duration: 12 Months

Main duties/Responsibilities:

To deliver a complete financial management service to specified Directorates within NIFRS and play a key role in the overall financial management of the organisation.

To support the strategic financial management of NIFRS through the provision of financial leadership to senior leadership teams; responsible for the financial governance of specified Directorates, ensuring financial regularity, compliance and value-for-money within a framework of excellent customer service and continuous improvement.

1. To deliver a complete financial management service to specified Directorates within NIFRS and play a key role in the overall financial management of the organisation.
2. To oversee the financial governance of specified Directorates, ensuring financial regularity, compliance and value-for-money within a framework of excellent customer service and continuous improvement.
3. To support the senior management team within specified Directorates, reporting regularly to the Director as lead customer.
4. Ensuring Directorates' senior management are provided with sound and challenging advice on their plans, using knowledge and data-led insight to ensure value for money outcomes will be achieved, aligned to strategic objectives.
5. Work effectively with the Strategic Financial Management team to provide high quality, data-driven insight and intelligence.
6. To perform a lead role as custodian of NIFRS's budget.
7. To provide a challenge function to senior management in respect of financial decision making and governance to ensure value for money, compliance with the principles outlined in Managing Public Money NI and consistency with corporate objectives.
8. To ensure the day to day implementation of cultural change across the Service with respect to devolved budgeting by advocating best practice financial governance.
9. To act as the key liaison between devolved and corporate finance to ensure consistency and compliance with strategic decision-making.
10. To ensure that budget holders are clear on their delegated budgets and savings targets, working proactively with budget holders to identify and develop appropriate forecasting methodologies to provide improved information to budget holders.
11. To promote a high level of financial awareness and financial management across the Directorate, managing the design, development, planning and delivery of training products to meet learning requirements.
12. To provide comprehensive financial management support to specified Directorates, including monthly reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, scenario planning and costing of service developments.
13. Providing data-led and insight driven business partnering, working with Directorates to improve its understanding of its cost drivers to drive effective use of resources and help the deliver savings and efficiencies from budgets.
14. Produce monthly variance analysis reports which review actual financial performance against budgeted levels to ensure that a robust challenge function is applied to directorates and strong financial management principles and controls are applied and maintained.
15. Preparing accurate monthly financial forecasts of year end outturn, developing strategies for achieving breakeven and managing associated risks for reporting to the Board and the Department of Health.
16. To use complex analytical skills to develop and prepare key management reporting and information to inform decision-making and achievement of business objectives.
17. To provide specialist ad hoc financial guidance and advice, playing a key role within the senior management of specified directorates.
18. To support procurement activities, acting as liaison between Directorates and the Procurement function.
19. To review and authorise payments within predetermined limits including the transmission of BACS payments, handling cheques and petty cash

Essential Criteria:

Applicants must be fully qualified accountants, having successfully completed the professional examinations, and be a full Member of one of the following bodies:

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Chartered Accountants Ireland
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: or
• Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland

AND

• Minimum of two years' relevant experience providing a comprehensive management accounting & analysis service to senior management.

To be shortlisted for this role all applicants MUST meet the essential criteria. If you are interested please upload your CV to the link provided, and Christine Thompson will be in contact to confirm if you have been shortlisted.

Successful candidates may need to apply for an Access NI Certificate with Staffline regardless if you already have a valid certificate.