Strategic Finance Business Partner
Sutton
£600/day
Full time: 36/hrs a week
Start date: ASAP
Role Profile - Details Specific to Job Family
These roles provide a broad service that set policy and provides advice to support and assure all of the council's day to day activities. They gather information required by other groups to make strategic decisions and translate this into corporate policy and strategic advice. They have little or no direct accountability for outcomes; however, what they are accountable for is the quality of advice they provide to business leaders.
At the lower levels, these roles tend to focus on research and analysis and the interpretation and implementation of policies. At the higher level, role holders set strategy, develop policy and provide assurance across the Council more broadly.
Role Profile - Details Specific to Grade
Roles will focus on interpreting and applying policies to support local needs. Thinking is focused on specific parts of the Council rather than the Council as a whole and is usually limited to the annual business planning cycle. Will operationalise plans and deploy resources to meet these plans and objectives
Lead professionals delivering a capability to ensure the effective, cost efficient delivery of a support service.
Brief Description of job role and department
The Shared Finance Service ambition is to add value, inspire success and this role is part of the Shared Finance Service (SFS) collectively responsible for delivering SFS activities to realise this ambition. The role provides direct support to the Head of Financial Planning & Business Partnering and may be required to deputise as required.
The post holder is required to support the Head of Financial Planning & Business Partnering to provide expert advice and guidance regarding the Councils' Capital Programme and Commercial programmes. The post holder will take responsibility for leading and managing the development of the Councils' Capital investment programmes. The post holder will provide commercial finance support to a number of Council programmes and will be recognised as an expert in commercial finance models. The post holder will work as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the service to provide inspirational leadership and drive cultural change to ensure the service reflects the INSPIRE values and achieves excellent outcomes.
Essential Knowledge and/or Experience
- Completed a relevant professional qualification that supports delivery of functional responsibilities (e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, MBA etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience of operating at that level.
- Experience of working within a business partnering model and/or the ability to demonstrate an awareness of what is required to deliver the outcomes of the model
- Experience of working alongside senior managers in a Senior Finance role
- Detailed knowledge & experience of Capital Programme development
- Detailed understanding of Local Authority Capital Accounting and associated guidance
- Experience of providing commercially focussed finance support to large programmes and projects
- Experience of developing or interpreting complex financial models
- Experience and knowledge of business case development and financial viability assessments