Corporate Business Partner Watford
Job description
Role: Corporate Business Partner Salary: £43,000 per annum /Hours: Fixed Term , 12 months - Full Time, 35 hours a week Monday to Friday Location: Remote (with occasional travel to the Watford office) Benefits: 28 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, and a discount portal with your favourite brands with Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers. Vulnerable children in the UK need your help. Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive. Why Action for Children? Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives. We are proud to say we are also an Investor in People (Silver Award). About the Role As part of a small team of finance business partners, you will be the key finance support to Spring Nurseries and Oscars Out-of-School clubs - a proud and successful part of the Action for Children family which provides high quality childcare to children and families around the country. The business is run through Action For Children Developments Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary which gifts 100% of its profits back to the charity each year. As the Corporate Business Partner, you'll: Work closely with the Spring & Oscars senior management to ensure they have full understanding of the financial position of the business and provide high quality financial advice on any issues arising Ensure the accuracy of the monthly accounts and work closely with the Finance Officer to complete all month end journals and processing Perform balance sheet reconciliations for all relevant balance sheet codes, and work with the financial accounts team to ensure accurate balance sheet accounting for AFC Developments Ltd Produce monthly reporting packs with commentary to explain key variances and trends Lead on the budgeting and quarterly forecasting process, ensuring the submissions are robust and submitted to organisational timetables Understand the future requirements of stakeholders and act as an early warner of any issues that may put targets in jeopardy, thus ensuring the robustness of Action for Children's forecasting and budgeting reporting. Lead on any financial input for significant business cases and ensure the financial data within any business case is robust and reliable. Support the annual financial audit and prepare financial information for the AFC Developments Ltd board as required. Lead on the tracking of cost and savings analysis which arise from reviews and produce regular reports for ELT. Work collaboratively with finance colleagues to ensure information from your areas of control is available in a format which can easily fit into any produced financial reports and models. All about you: Qualified Accountant with good understanding of management reporting within a large organisation. First-class communication skills to allow financial facts and data to be communicated to non-financial colleagues. Demonstrable experience of business partnering skills. Solid technical knowledge, particularly in VAT, limited company accounting and charity finance. Confidence to challenge and critique your stakeholders to ensure accuracy. Experience of delivering monthly and quarterly reporting for various stakeholders Strong IT Skills including Excel and forecasting/budgeting tools. Working intuitively and using your own initiative to identify areas that need work. Talent Pool We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't. For any recruitment related queries or help with your application please contact: Sarah Manderfield by email Diversity, equality, and inclusion At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family. Want to know more about Action for Children? Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube to get to know us better. Action for Children
