Finance Business Partner

Spinwell Global Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Spinwell Global Limited seeks a Finance Business Partner for a 12-month contract, hybrid with onsite presence at Green Park, Reading. You will build relationships with accountable leads and provide financial insight to support strategic and operational decision-making.

The role requires strong financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and governance, with the ability to lead and mentor teams while maintaining high personal standards.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Robust financial analysis and decision-support capabilities.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial governance.
• Proven ability to partner with business units and drive outcomes.
• Leadership capabilities with team coaching and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to become trusted partner for accountable leads.
• Represent finance in stakeholder forums within operating units.
• Ensure services for business partners are delivered on time, within cost and quality expectations.
• Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and teams.
• Produce forecasts, budgets, procurement plans, reports and variance analyses as per business rhythm.
• Support, review and approve business cases and drive value for money.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Forecasting & budgeting

Business partnering

Leadership

Communication

Job description

Role: Finance Business Partner REF107454

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Hybrid up to 3 days per week onsite. Green Park, Reading

IR35: Inside

Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate

Security Clearance: Requested SC

Spinwell is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER

• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become the trusted partner of the accountable leads.
• Effectively representing business partners in a wide range of stakeholder forums within the operating units.
• Ensuring that the services for business partners are delivered to the business rhythm in accordance with appropriate processes and systems.
• Line and task manage capacity and deployment of business partner managers and their teams in support of Lead Business Partners.
• Ensuring the teams deliverables are:
• Produced to acceptable time, cost & quality, including but not limited to forecasts, budgets, procurement plans, reports and variance analysis.
• Produced to the required Business Rhythm.
• Ensure resource demand and supply issues are reported and communicated and the supported to drive an appropriate resourced position.
• Support, contribute, review and approve business cases
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER

• Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads, customer budget holders and wider stakeholders, Steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities.
• Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs.
• Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.
• Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications.
• Flexibility in undertaking duties unique to the needs of the business area and supporting the business to resolve complex problems.
• Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, affordable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.
• Undertake scrutiny of business cases to ensure that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial) and through-life implications ensuring a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
• Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance.
• Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice.
• Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritising changes that will add the most value.
• Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas.
• Setting the direction, empowering, inspiring, motivating, and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual's personal development and careers.

Disability Confident Scheme

The client supports the Disability Confident Scheme and is committed to providing fair and inclusive recruitment opportunities. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role may be eligible for an interview under the scheme. Where application volumes are particularly high, the client may shortlist those candidates who best meet the role requirements.

Armed Forces Covenant

The client supports the Armed Forces Covenant and is committed to helping veterans and military spouses or partners access employment opportunities. Eligible veterans and spouses or partners of Armed Forces personnel who meet the minimum essential criteria may qualify for an interview under the client's applicable recruitment scheme. Where application volumes are particularly high, shortlisting may be necessary.

How to Apply Under These Schemes

If you believe you qualify under either scheme, please inform your Spinwell recruitment consultant when applying and quote the relevant vacancy reference. We will explain the applicable process and confirm your request with the client.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, or would prefer an alternative or more accessible method of communication, please let us know. We will work with you and the client to accommodate your needs wherever reasonably possible.

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