Remote Finance Business Partner & Forecasting Analyst

National Fire Chiefs Council Limited.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

National Fire Chiefs Council Limited is seeking a Finance Business Partner Analyst to join the Finance team in a largely remote role with occasional UK travel. You will support monthly forecasting, provide insightful financial analysis, and ensure reporting accuracy.

The role emphasizes building stakeholder relationships and using Excel and Power Query to drive process improvements. You will work with budget holders across the organisation, challenge assumptions, and contribute to robust

Qualifications

• AAT qualification or substantial equivalent experience in management accounting, financial reporting, forecasting or financial analysis.
• Experience working with budget holders or non-financial stakeholders to support monitoring, forecasting or decision-making.
• Demonstrable ability to review financial information, challenge assumptions and provide constructive input.
• Advanced Excel skills including formulas, lookups, pivot tables and data cleansing.
• Experience consolidating information from multiple sources into complex reports.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly forecasting and budget monitoring cycle for budget holders.
• Review forecast submissions to ensure robust, evidence-based assumptions.
• Consolidate, validate and maintain monthly forecasts and reporting data.
• Produce analysis on budget variances, forecast movements and risks.
• Maintain grant monitoring information and supporting datasets.
• Perform reconciliations, data validation and quality assurance checks.
• Develop and improve reporting processes using Excel and Power Query.
• Explain complex financial information clearly to non-financial colleagues.
• Support continuous improvement of forecasting, grant monitoring and reporting controls.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power Query

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Data validation

Remote collaboration

Education

AAT qualification

Part-qualified accountant

Public sector finance experience

Tools

Excel

Power Query

Job description

National Fire Chiefs Council Limited is seeking a Finance Business Partner Analyst to join the Finance team in a largely remote role with occasional UK travel. You will support monthly forecasting, provide insightful financial analysis, and ensure reporting accuracy.

The role emphasizes building stakeholder relationships and using Excel and Power Query to drive process improvements. You will work with budget holders across the organisation, challenge assumptions, and contribute to robust