Experienced Financial Services Administrator handling administration for life, pensions, and investments with a focus on client servicing. Working in a hybrid environment from Birmingham or Market Harborough.
About the role
- Finance Business Partner providing financial oversight and strategic support for UK Finance team. Collaborating with senior managers on financial planning and analysis in a hybrid working environment.
Responsibilities
- Regularly advise UK team leaders and senior manager to review financial aspects of their operational plans.
- Continue to develop the systematic forecasting process for departments and ensure robust 3 year financial plans are implemented
- Support strategic decision making on long term financial plans and modelling, supporting WAUKs 10 year strategy
- Develop enhanced self-service reporting relevant at budget holder and department level that supports optimal decision-making
- Create efficient finance processes that best deliver the needs of the organisation
- Provide training and advice to build the financial management competencies of budget holders
- Work closely with the wider finance and IS team on delivering the organisational priorities
Requirements
- Completed a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA).
- Experience of formulating, overseeing and reporting on operational plans, including KPIs.
- Demonstrable innovative ability; using data and insight to inform recommendations for improvements to products, processes or activities.
- Proven experience of using insight and analysis to provide trends, inform and drive business decisions.
- Keen interest in information systems, ability to learn new systems quickly.
- Experience of accounting for restricted funds, preferably in an international organisation.
- Adaptability to build effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues and work in a collaborative way.
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise and co-ordinate multiple tasks and confident to work independently.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
- Working knowledge of a budgeting and forecasting system.
- Experience of using Power BI.
- Working knowledge of SUN Vision Excel, or a similar multi-dimensional accounting system.
- Knowledge of donor reporting requirements /experience of reporting to donors.
- Knowledge of development issues and the sector.
Benefits
- 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days’ annual leave
- Employer pension contribution up to 10 %
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Season ticket loan
- Free annual eye tests
- ‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
- Sabbaticals
- One paid volunteer day each year
- Additional three days leave covering Christmas closure
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