Finance Business Partner

What You'll Be Responsible For:

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll provide essential services to our Operational Business, fostering strong working relationships with budget holders and ensuring a consistent finance presence in the relevant business areas. Your key responsibilities will include:

1. Effective Communication: Engage and communicate effectively with budget holders and managers.
2. Challenging Expenditure: Develop the confidence and skills to challenge spends, categorisations, and processes within your area.
3. Active Presence: Maintain an active presence in all business partner areas.
4. Meeting Participation: Attend and participate in Budget Holder meetings as needed.
5. Variance Analysis: Prepare variance analysis commentaries on monthly reports.
6. Report Management: Run monthly finance reports in SAP, exporting to Excel and Word.
7. Budget Preparation: Assist in preparing zero-based budgets.
8. Month-End Journals: Prepare and post month-end journals and accruals via SAP.
9. Accruals Preparation: Run blocked and parked reports in SAP and prepare accruals.
10. Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Analyse and reconcile balance sheet codes on SAP ledgers.
11. Audit Assistance: Support internal or external audits by retrieving necessary information.
12. Payment Runs: Cover weekly payment runs, payroll audits, one bill payments, and balance sheet reconciliations.
13. TOTEX Reports: Prepare and distribute monthly TOTEX reports to budget holders.
14. Forecasts and Business Plans: Prepare forecasts and Business Plans for relevant business areas.
15. Financial Transactions: Accurately record and process financial transactions, ensuring management accounting reporting requirements are met.
16. Professional Approach: Deliver financial information enthusiastically to non-financial budget holders and managers at all levels.
17. Other Duties: Undertake any other duties as required to meet business needs.

Who You'll Work With:

Internal:

• Reporting to the Finance Manager
• Close collaboration with the Management Accounts Team
• Monthly contact with operational staff
• Internal audit

External:

• Suppliers
• External Audit

About You:

Qualifications:

• Studying towards a recognized accountancy qualification or holding a recognized accounting technician qualification (AAT or similar) (Essential)

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working in a finance environment (Essential)

Knowledge & Skills:

• Enthusiastic about putting customers first (Essential)
• Robust systems and processes knowledge to produce accurate data (Essential)
• Proficiency in SAP financial modules (FI/CO) (Essential)
• Strong IT skills, especially in Microsoft Excel and Word (Essential)
• Effective communication skills with finance team members and budget holders (Essential)
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial information (Essential)
• Professional engagement with key budget holders (Essential)
• Ability to communicate in Welsh (Desirable)

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary and 33 days of annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards, including:

• Variable pay schemes with potential yearly bonuses
• Enhanced employer pension contributions up to 11%
• Family-friendly policies
• Progression opportunities with funded training, coaching, and mentoring programs
• Discounts on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car-leasing scheme
• Health CashBack scheme
• Employee assistance program for employees and immediate family

Join a not-for-profit company that values customer trust and cares about our beautiful environment every day. Apply now to become a part of our dedicated team!