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Job Description Finance Business Partner

Job title: Finance Business Partner

Reporting to: Head of Finance (HoF)

Direct Reports: None

Location: Farringdon (2X in office, TUESDAY is a must)

Salary: £46,651 p.a. (plus pension, loan schemes, enhanced annual leave, life assurance)

Duration: Permanent

Our client is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and younger people, families, teachers and school staff.

Their teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling,

creative work and play and support a child's ability to engage in school life.

Overall Purpose of the Business Partner role

• This role is key to ensuring efficient and effective financial management for their designated areas of the organisation (Business Units (BU)) by providing finance partnering to key managerial and senior internal stakeholders, ensuring that all financial planning, implementation and monitoring is robust and effective.
• The Finance Business Partner holds a key position for the day-to-day provision of financial information for planning and control purposes. The role will provide ownership of the end-to-end processes necessary to take financial data and to report in a meaningful way back to the relevant audiences in the
• To develop and support the financial management of the organisation by overseeing the processes and procedures for recognising income and expenditure in the
• This is in tandem with overseeing the full budgeting and management accounts process related to the relevant Business
• Carry out Primary or Review role on monthly finance payroll process.
• Working closely with internal customers to interpret data and provide analysis, interpretation and support as required

Key Responsibilities:



Business Partnering duties (for areas of responsibility as defined by HoF):

• Act as a single point of contact in Finance for representatives of relevant Business Units (as requested by HoF). Business Unit staff to include: operational Cost Centre Owners, business development leads and Heads of departments
• Improve, develop and issue reporting for management information and dashboards for above
• Lead system and process improvements to enable more accurate information and a better information
• Work with BU staff to develop narrative for
• Assist with regular rolling forecast of the expected outturn for the
• Take ownership of finance system and end-to-end processes relating to the above
• Partner with Heads of Departments, Cost Centre owners and other decision makers in modelling financial and strategic decisions
• Produce business cases analysis, investment appraisals, tenders, grant applications and other analysis for decision makers
• Ensure that all relevant financial systems and processes are effective, efficient and documented

Management accounting (for areas of responsibility as defined by HoF):

• Lead the planning and delivery of month-end processes
• Lead the production of monthly, quarterly, and statutory and management reports and KPIs
• Reconciliations of relevant systems to enable accurate end-to-end processes and reporting
• Assist BU staff (including Cost Centre owners) in monitoring budgets and delivering operational targets
• Produce budgets for review with Cost Centre owners
• In concert with business units produce monthly management accounts narrative

Payroll duties

• Carry out Primary or Review role on monthly finance payroll process (as requested by HoF)
• Work with Cost Centre owners and HR team to accurately maintain employees on the payroll system (Starters, leavers, terms, additional hours, tax codes, pension etc)
• Responsible for the maintenance, integrity and continuous improvement of the payroll system.
• Responsible for supporting the implementation of new and improved payroll systems as necessary. e.
• Responsible for ensuring the payroll is processed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Responsible for ensuring Statutory returns are processed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Responsible for ensuring that pension deductions are processed accurately and returns made in a timely manner.
• Responsible for ensuring that payroll/pension queries are resolved in a timely
• Responsible for supporting the work of internal and external audits providing information on

General finance duties:

• Provide a high quality, customer focused finance service to the
• Liaise with auditors during annual
• In order to produce robust and meaningful reporting, where necessary provide support to the Accounts Assistants in the performance of their roles with inter

• invoicing
• bank analysis
• bank receipts
• Maintaining registers
• Journals and posting
• reconciliations

Overarching requirements

• Stay up to date with relevant accounting regulations and promote best practice and improve processes where appropriate
• Keep abreast of relevant policy and statutory requirements relating to finance matters
• Demonstrate a commitment to the organisation and to customer care by ensuring regular communication, visibility and feedback to all stakeholders.

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