Finance Business Partners

A Local Authority which has an outstanding track record in delivering organisational transformation. Over the last three years they have delivered over £300m of savings whilst working hard to improve services to their customers.

As part of this next stage, they are looking to recruit  Finance Business Partners. They  are not looking for people who want to deliver routine financial management; they want to do more than just a monthly reporting cycle; they want to drive change and improvements in financial practice across the business.  You will bring commerciality, insight, new ideas and be passionate about supporting complex change and what you can bring to the varied projects.

The skill sets/backgrounds required in are as follows:

• PFI and Alternate funding
• Capital, Highways and Infrastructure (Experience of working on large scale Capital projects)
• Children’s/Adult’s Social Care
• Education – Schools
• Innovation/Commercialisation

If you have experience in any of the above then please do apply.

Experience

• Qualified Accountant
• The ability to work with minimal supervision and be a strong team player
• Confidence and able to quickly establish solid working relationship with wide variety of stakeholders
• The ability and willingness to respond quickly and positively to change; identify and implement change in response to business needs
• The ability to think logically or laterally, and using ingenuity to remove or get around difficulties
• The ability to work flexibly across service areas and with partners to achieve the priority outcomes of the Council