Job Title: Finance Business Partner x 3
Location: Walsall
Salary: £37,516 – £42,398 per annum
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent and Fixed Term available
The Council’s Finance team have a number of permanent and fixed term contracts available to:
- Support key services across the Councils Directorates
- Focus support to the Councils Capital Programme
- Focus support to the Councils Transformation programme on commercialisation
The Role:
This is an exciting time to join the team.
The Council is transforming its services, leading to some excellent opportunities for driven, ambitious and experienced finance professionals who are looking to take that next step on their career.
The Transformation Programme is closely linked with their ambitious medium-term financial strategy and the Financial Services team are a key driver in helping achieve the organisations aspirational vision. As such there’s a number of posts to recruit to within the Finance Business Partnering team.
All posts are key finance links to the services they support. They are there to provide solutions, insight and advice to both support and constructively challenge services to help achieve their objectives, whilst underpinned by strong financial management. A can-do attitude, experience in supporting large, complex services and an ability to appropriately articulate financial information to a range of stakeholders are all crucial to these roles.
As well as roles to support key services across the Councils Directorates, they are also looking to bring in Finance Business Partners with more specialised knowledge in specific areas. On Capital, they’re developing a new finance team to help provide focus and support on the Councils extensive capital programme and the financial complexities surrounding this. They are therefore looking for financial expertise in this area.
They are also, as part of the Transformation Programme, looking for individuals with experience on areas of cross-cutting income generation including commercial ventures, partnership working and traded income models. Again, if you feel you can bring these skills to the team, they want to hear from you.
The Candidates:
As a Finance Business Partner you should hold a CCAB/CIMA body and undertaking active CPD, or actively studying for a CCAB/CIMA qualification and be able to demonstrate experience of providing excellent business partnering and customer services. Whist an understanding of local government finance would be an advantage, it is not essential.
What’s on offer?
Their commitment to you is to provide a safe learning environment, where you will be offered the platform to develop and enhance your career prospects, with the aim to support your drive and commitment to progress and build on your existing experience. The diverse services that they support and the progression of the transformation programme, brings with it exposure to many scenarios requiring financial support and advice. You can therefore expect opportunities to get involved and strengthen both your accountancy knowledge and your broader skillsets, enabling you to adapt to an ever changing business environment and support the many challenges public sector organisations face.
On top of this, if you are not currently fully qualified but actively studying, they provide opportunities to continue a funded CCAB qualification, provide an attractive employment package that includes a generous annual leave entitlement of up to 33 days, a flexible working scheme that allows up to a further 12 days leave per year, working from home opportunities with emphasis on an optimum work life balance arrangement and a career average pension scheme.
This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.
Please click on the APPLY button to complete your application on the Council’s careers page.
Candidates with experience of: Finance Manager, CCAB, CIMA, Chartered Accountant, Financial Analyst, Financial Controller, Finance Associate, Finance Coordinator, Management Accountant, Finance Specialist, Qualified Accountant may also be considered for this role.
