Assistant Finance Business Partner

Hays PLC; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Finance Business Partner Job - Finance Job - Part Qualified - Accountant

Your new role

To support the Finance Business Partner Team in the provision of excellent, customer-focused financial accounting, advice, and support to management teams within the City of London emergency services, members, and external stakeholders, enabling compliance with statutory requirements, financial regulations, standing orders, and contributing effectively to the financial foundation required to deliver the plan. To play an essential role in strengthening the quality and flow of information between the Finance team service areas. To act as an ambassador for the Finance team and City of London emergency services as a whole.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To liaise with budget managers and officers to provide accurate monthly revenue/capital budgetary control reports and to assist in the development and enhancement of this information.
2. To ensure summary revenue and capital monitoring reports are completed for review by the Senior Business Partner.
3. Work with budget managers to ensure general ledger forecasting/profiling of budgets on the financial system is completed to improve accuracy of year-end forecasts.
4. To assist in the preparation and monitoring of salary budgets.
5. To monitor and reconcile income streams from grants and other funded agreements as directed.
6. To support the team in providing analysis of key cost drivers, including the evaluation of full economic cost, commercial opportunities, and financial insights to support decision-making.
7. To raise purchase requisitions for the supply of goods and services as requested by the Senior Business Partner.
8. To assist in regular reconciliation and control of uninvoiced goods receipts notes and periodic review of outstanding commitments.
9. To set up new cost centres, specials, and ensure the budget manager listing is kept up to date.
10. To analyse purchase card transactions for compliance monitoring and where necessary, prepare journals to correct miscodings.
11. To assist with the administration (banking, collection, and reconciliation) of seized funds.
12. To undertake stock and petty cash reconciliations.

Professional Qualifications / Relevant Education & Training:
Holding or be studying towards AAT (minimum level 3) or other relevant and equivalent accounting/business qualification is essential.

Experience:

1. Knowledge of issues facing the public sector and understanding of the national context.
2. Experience of providing accurate data for reports in a clear, understandable, and appropriate format, preferably using dashboards.
3. Experience of applying accounting principles and work in accordance with relevant rules and procedures.
4. Experience of preparing budgets and budget monitoring reports.
5. Has awareness and experience of enforcing compliance with financial control.

Technical Skills & Knowledge:

1. Ability to support project delivery that meets strategic business needs and corporate financial objectives.
2. Effective written communication skills in order to draft contributions to financial reports and analyses, provide written financial advice, and write procedural documentation.
3. Effective oral communication skills in order to provide clear financial advice and guidance to service managers.
4. Intermediate to advanced use of Excel - comfortable with handling very large volumes of data using VLOOKUP's, formulas, and pivot tables.
5. Knowledge and skills to contribute to the review and maintenance of financial systems and processes.
6. Ability to understand and respond to organisational priorities and organise own workload in order to meet deadlines.
7. Computer literate with a good degree of proficiency in the use of spreadsheets and accountancy systems.

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