Finance Business Partner jobs in United Kingdom

Finance Business Partner GBP49,359 per annum – Grade 9 Leeds / Hybrid Full time / Permanent – 37 hours per week 3 posts available

Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part–time working and/or job share. We're excited to share that our team is growing. The Business Partner Team within the wider Finance department is a newly established group of passionate professionals committed to maximising the impact of our funding. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in providing expert advice and in–depth analysis on budgets, funding, and financing options that drive our strategic goals.

You will collaborate with policy and delivery teams to monitor performance against budgets and forecast future funding requirements, whilst working with investors and external funders to develop innovative funding solutions that help us achieve our mission as a Combined Authority. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference by shaping the financial landscape of our organisation. If you're a proactive, forward–thinking Finance Business Partner with a flair for financial strategy and a desire to work in an impactful role, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Offer

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including:

1. 28 days Annual Leave (increasing upon years of service) plus bank holidays
2. Generous Employer–Contribution Pension Scheme
3. Free Travel on rail and buses across West Yorkshire with the M–Card (Zones 1–5)
4. Flexible Working Practices with Health & Wellbeing initiatives, including agile working options if you would rather work from home, or another suitable location, as well as a generous flexi–time scheme to ensure you achieve the best work/life balance and career goals.

Having recently undergone a major office refurbishment we have bright, airy, modern office space, with all latest technology, and just a 2–minute walk from Leeds Train Station.

The Role

Reporting into the Senior Finance Business Partner, your key responsibilities will include:

1. Lead on the financial evaluation of options for implementing Directorate plans to best achieve desired outcomes.
2. Providing financial advice to Directorates, including the allocation of resource and how short to medium term objectives can be aligned and affordable within available resource.
3. Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial modelling of funding and investment options for the Combined Authority.
4. Supporting the creation of investor facing presentations and materials.
5. Monitor and provide insight and advice on the financial performance of a complex portfolio of funding programmes.
6. Lead the monthly management accounts, annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for relevant Directorates, ensuring clear links are made to the business planning process, resources are focussed on driving performance and ensuring synergy with other Directorates.
7. Provide expertise and advice to the Directorates on financial matters to drive performance.
8. Work with the Directors and their key staff to ensure programmes are resourced and implemented cost effectively.
9. Support the delivery of an effective financial business partnering service across the organisation, including advice, support, challenge and guidance to colleagues, ensuring financial controls and procedures are adhered to.
10. Building credible relationships with internal policy teams and external funders.

Please review the Role Profile on our website for more information about the responsibilities.

About You

You might bring experience from a consulting, finance, investment, or policy background. The most important thing is that you are comfortable working with budgets and financial models, able to think strategically, and want to work creatively to help us use our funding to achieve policy goals. Other key skills, attributes, education and experience include:

1. CIMA / CCAB qualified (CIPFA, ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, ICAI) or a commitment to work towards a professional qualification.
2. A degree in a relevant field or demonstrable practical experience.
3. Practical experience of managing and reviewing complex budgets.
4. Experience of financial planning and analysis, and / or investment modelling.
5. Strong communication skills and ability to work constructively across multiple internal teams.
6. An understanding of how finance can contribute to policy objectives.
7. Experience of forming and developing effective senior level working relationships with Members, Government and partner organisations.

To Apply

If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.

Further Information

The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro–divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met. Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis.