Finance Business Partner

Royal Museums Greenwich; Greenwich; Hybrid; GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent cultural organization in the UK seeks a Finance Business Partner to ensure that financial resources align with strategic ambitions. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with experience advising non-finance staff, budgeting, and producing management accounts. This full-time role offers flexible working options and a supportive environment. Benefits include generous annual leave, discounts at cafés and shops, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

25 days annual leave, rising to 30

40% discount in cafés

Interest-free loans

Free entry to exhibitions

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record of working with non-finance managers.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting.
• Knowledge of financial reporting in government bodies or cultural organizations.

Responsibilities

• Advise and support staff with financial responsibilities.
• Produce the monthly management accounts pack.
• Monitor actual results and handle ad hoc queries.

Skills

Excellent analytical skills

Ability to communicate effectively

Problem-solving skills

Education

Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)

Job description

About us

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise.

We form a campus within the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site, with supporting operations at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre in Kidbrooke, the Brass Foundry in Woolwich, and administrative offices in Greenwich. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy “Charting Our Course” puts people at the core of its success.

The Role

As one of two Finance Business Partners, the postholder is responsible for ensuring that Royal Museum Greenwich’s strategic ambitions are correctly planned for and that adequate financial resources are in place to achieve them.

Key elements of the role involve advising and supporting all staff with financial responsibilities to ensure that financial decisions are optimised and to keep relevant staff informed of key financial updates and changes, and to communicate any relevant changes to the rest of the Finance team.

Further core responsibilities include supporting assigned Heads of Departments and directors on all financial matters, advising on budgeting and forecasting, monitoring of actual results and ad hoc queries, and working as a team with the other Finance Business Partner, lead on the production of the monthly management accounts pack, ensuring timely and accurate reporting and incisive analysis and commentary.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) with a demonstrable track record of working with non-finance managers to achieve high quality reporting, budgeting and forecasting, ideally within government bodies or heritage/cultural/charitable organisations. Excellent analytical skills, the ability to communicate financial concepts effectively to non-financial stakeholders and solve problems are also essential.

This is a permanent full‑time in Band 3 – Senior Management. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, working Monday to Friday between the hours of 9 am – 5 pm, although due to the nature of the work, some flexibility may be required.

Salary: £51,500 per annum

Interviews are pencilled in for w/c Monday 12 January.

We encourage you to read the full job description/person specification before applying for this role.

Benefits

• Generous pension scheme and life cover
• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 1 year) plus bank holidays
• 40% discount in our cafés, 30% in our shops
• Interest‑free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
• Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye‑contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.

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