Finance Business Partner

Description

Our client in Aberdeen are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a temporary basis until 31st December 2019. The role will be based within the Finance Team which supports budgetary, finance and purchasing functions. The postholder will be a member of a team providing support for a number of branches and will be required to undertake a range of financial tasks including managing budgets for all staff, administration and capital expenditure as well as income to support the delivery of strategic objectives.

This is a full time post with a typical working week of 37 hours ( Monday – Friday ) on a pro rata annual rate £25,367 along with holiday accrual

Specific duties of the role:

* To support the Senior Finance Business Partner in the budgetary, finance and purchasing functions
* Provide support to each branch within the CEO Directorate as well as the Corporate Services and Communication & Marketing branches to understand their core business, branch’s budget activity and embed financial management within day to day work. Work to include holding monthly finance meetings, reviewing expenditure in returns, comparing data and producing monthly accrual journals. The post has responsibility to draft and action journals to ensure costs are allocated against correct account codes
* Assist with the monitoring of the branch’s programme budget forecasts including reviewing actual expenditure against forecasts and investigating reason for variances. To update branch actual and forecast spend into rolling forecast spreadsheet and month variance reports per set timelines
* Prepare reports for the branches to allow senior managers access to financial information
* Responsible for setting up requisitions for the purchase of goods and services for expenditure, ensuring that appropriate accounting codes are include in the requisition. Receipt good / services following confirmation by project manager / approvers that the goods / services have been received. Deal with queries from staff / suppliers and updates to existing purchase orders
* Review and validate for payment invoices
* Review and prepare journals to allocate payments to budget centres. Assist with the preparation of other journals where costs have been allocated centrally and need to be moved to budget centres

Essential criteria required:

* Good communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively as part of a team and the confidence to build good working relationships with internal stakeholders
* Proven organisational and time management skills to be able to manage the priorities of your workload whilst meeting agreed deadlines and dealing with urgent matters as they arise
* Ability to analyse and interpret financial information and present findings and finance advice to non-finance managers
* Understanding of financial planning and budgeting techniques
* Experience of using Excel for constructing and interrogating spreadsheets for reporting purposes

Desirable criteria:

* Knowledge of financial / accounting rules, practices and principles
* Experience of SEAS accounting system and EASEBuy purchasing system, or similar finance and procurement systems
* Hold or training for an accountancy qualification

Expected competencies of the postholder:

* People Management
* Communications & Engagement
* Analysis & Use of Evidence
* Financial Management

If you are interested in the role of Finance Business Partner in Aberdeen please apply with an up to date CV today

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