Finance Business Partner

JR United Kingdom; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in the Oxford district is seeking a Finance Business Partner to oversee financial management for multiple projects. This role involves strategic leadership in budgeting, reporting, and compliance, ensuring that financial standards are met while delivering value for money. The successful candidate will have ownership of financial forecasts, manage audits, and collaborate with various departments to support project success.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial management and project reporting.
• Ability to lead audits and manage compliance.
• Strong strategic planning and budgeting skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver monthly project reporting to business units and corporate finance.
• Ensure compliance with financial standards and capital policy.
• Lead the external annual audit of accounts.

Skills

Financial management

Reporting

Budgeting

Strategic planning

Compliance

Job description

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Finance Business Partner, oxford district

Location: oxford district, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

23.05.2025

Expiry Date:

07.07.2025

Job Description:

Finance Business Partner - Projects. £60,000 - Oxford - Hybrid working

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute Finance Business Partner to support multiple projects within the Organisation. To take complete ownership of the end-to-end financial management of projects, including reporting, policies, and procedures. Own and manage all aspects of capital policy, budgeting, and reporting.

Key role functions:

1. Deliver monthly project reporting to business units, governance boards, and corporate finance, highlighting risks, issues, and opportunities to inform and enable decision-making.
2. Work with Project Managers to ensure all projects maintain robust financial forecasts and projections, follow project and capital accounting methodology, and adhere to the capital strategy to enable strategic horizon planning and financial planning.
3. Take a strategic leadership role in the business case process to ensure compliance with financial standards. Ensure all business cases provide sufficient information to make informed investment decisions and explore all options to enable the Organisation to deliver value for money. Ultimate financial sign-off responsibility.
4. Own the update and maintenance of the fixed asset register to enable the year-end close down and ensure compliance with capital policy and accounting standards.
5. Take ownership of the strategic objectives. Ensure required capital investment is budgeted, enabling comprehensive financial plans. Prepare budget papers, monitoring reports, funding recommendations, and cash flow information on behalf of the Director of Finance.
6. Develop, own, and enforce the capital policy and project-related procedures and processes to maintain consistent standards and compliance with accounting standards. Update cyclically and provide training as necessary.
7. Lead the external annual audit of accounts concerning capital and project expenditure. Manage the relationship with auditors, take responsibility for providing evidence, answering queries, and maintaining supporting documentation, including third-party engagements, to ensure audit sign-off and regulatory compliance.
8. Act as financial lead with Procurement and Business Leads during the preparation of commercial tenders/procurement proposals. Ensure compliance with procurement policies and that contracts represent value for money in project and capital expenditure.

How to apply

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