Finance Business Partner – Public Sector & Grants (Hybrid)

Ivy Rock Partners Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Manchester office

Pension

Life assurance

Training budget

Cycle to work

Transport cost support

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Salix is recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner to support budget holders and delivery teams across Data, Technology and Comms. You will provide high-quality management reporting and finance insight for a combined budget just under £6m.

You’ll work with non-finance stakeholders, challenging assumptions and strengthening forecasting while ensuring strong governance and financial controls.

Qualifications

• Qualified or finalist/part-qualified accountant or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience in management accounting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience providing financial partnering and insight to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver timely monthly management reporting with variance analysis and commentary.
• Provide financial advice and constructive challenge to budget holders and delivery teams.
• Support budgeting and forecasting cycles and explain assumptions.
• Monitor performance against budgets and forecasts and identify risks.
• Prepare cashflow forecasts and financial analysis across programmes.
• Support monthly and Board reporting with clear commentary.
• Ensure accruals, prepayments and journals are correctly posted.
• Support audits and maintain strong financial controls.
• Identify improvements to reporting, processes, systems and templates.
• Assist finance training to improve financial understanding across the organisation.

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Excel

Stakeholder management

Communication

Independent working

Attention to detail

Public sector experience

Education

Qualified/Finalist/Part-qualified accountant

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Salix is recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner to support budget holders and delivery teams across Data, Technology and Comms. You will provide high-quality management reporting and finance insight for a combined budget just under £6m.

You’ll work with non-finance stakeholders, challenging assumptions and strengthening forecasting while ensuring strong governance and financial controls.