Description
Finance Business Partner
Aberdeen
10 week contract
£130 per day (Inside IR35)
The post of Finance Business Partner is within the Finance Team which supports the client with its budgetary, finance and purchasing functions. The team is located within Corporate Services and manages the budget for all programme, staff, admin and capital expenditure as well as income to support the delivery of strategic objectives. The post holder will be a member of a team providing support for a number of branches and will be required to undertake a range of financial tasks.
Specific Duties
You will support the Senior Finance Business Partner in the budgetary, finance and purchasing functions.
Provide support to each branch within the CEO Directorate as well as the Corporate Services and Communication & Marketing branches to understand their core business, branch's budget activity and embed financial management within day to day work. Work to include holding monthly finance meetings, reviewing expenditure in returns, comparing data and producing monthly accrual journals.
The post has responsibility to draft and action journals to ensure costs are allocated against correct account codes.
Assist with the monitoring of the branch's programme budget forecasts including reviewing actual expenditure against forecasts and investigating reason for variances. To update branch actual and forecast spend into rolling forecast spreadsheet and month variance reports per set timelines. Prepare reports for the branches are supported to allow senior managers access to financial information.
Responsible for setting up requisitions for the purchase of goods and services for expenditure, ensuring that appropriate accounting codes are include in the requisition. Receipt good/services following confirmation by project manager/approvers that the goods/services have been received. Deal with queries from staff/suppliers and updates to existing purchase orders.
Review and validate for payment invoices that have been posted. Review and prepare journals to allocate payments made via Procurement Card (ePC) to budget centres. Assist with the preparation of other journals where costs have been allocated centrally and need to be moved to budget centres.
Essential Criteria
You'll have good communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively as part of a team and the confidence to build good working relationships with internal stakeholders.
Proven organisational and time management skills to be able to manage the priorities of your workload whilst meeting agreed deadlines and dealing with urgent matters as they arise.
Ability to analyse and interpret financial information and present findings and finance advice to non-finance managers. Understanding of financial planning and budgeting techniques.
You'll have experience of using Excel for constructing and interrogating spreadsheets for reporting purposes.
Desirable Criteria
Knowledge of financial/accounting rules, practices and principles.
Hold or training for an accountancy qualification.
Competencies
People Management
Communications & Engagement
Analysis & Use of Evidence
Financial Management