Finance Business Partner - Public Services

Association of International Certified Professional Accountants; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent professional accounting organization is seeking an interim Finance Business Partner in Belfast. This role involves delivering financial management and accounting services to diverse stakeholders. Candidates should be part qualified accountants with at least 2 years' finance experience and 1 year in financial management. Strong Excel skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience working in an accounting/finance role.
• At least 1 year of experience within a financial management/management accounts role.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Client Accountant in providing financial services.
• Preparation of year-end financial accounts.
• Production of regular financial analysis reports.
• Assist customers in budget-setting and financial costings.

Skills

Financial management

Strong Excel skills

Education

Part qualified accountant with foundation level exams

Job description

Role Overview

Your new company Hays are working with a large public services body who provide a range of Accounting and Financial Services and are seeking to appoint an interim Finance business partner. This role will be responsible for delivering financial management and financial accounting services to a range of internal and external stakeholders for a period of at least 6 months. The role will require prior financial management experience and strong Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Client Accountant in providing a range of financial and management accounting services and in year reporting to external customers.
• Preparation of year‑end financial accounts on behalf of external customers.
• Preparation of monthly management accounts for BSO external customers.
• Production of regular, meaningful financial analysis reports to facilitate effective budgetary control.
• Review and report on the monthly financial services database and prepare in‑year customer assurance reports.
• Preparation of customer monitoring returns for DoH.
• Updating and monitoring customer action plans.
• Assisting with the annual budget‑setting process for customers, making recommendations for changes to the budget‑setting policy.
• Assisting in the production of meaningful income and expenditure information to customers.
• Assist customers in undertaking the financial aspects of budget‑setting, service re‑profiling, service developments/retractions and other ad‑hoc financial costings as required.
• Through the variance analysis process assist the customer in producing meaningful forecasts of year‑end outturn, developing strategies for achieving breakeven and managing associated risks.
• Ensure appropriate accounting procedures are adhered to.
• Assisting in the preparation and update of finance service level agreements.
• Contribute to the promotion of a culture of continuous service improvement amongst staff, encouraging participation of customers in reviewing and modernising current services and in‑service development.
• Liaise with internal and external audit on matters relating to financial management and accounting services for customers as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Part qualified accountant having completed the foundation level of professional accountancy examinations with one of the six professional accounting institutes (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, CIMA or ICAI).
• Minimum of 2 years' experience working in an accounting / finance role.
• At least 1 year of experience within a financial management / management accounts role, including regular budgetary reporting to budget managers, provision of support to budget holders and annual budget build.

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