Job Description

Action for Children

Finance Business Partner - Wales and Northern Ireland Childrens Services.

Salary: c\xc2\xa355,000 per annum.

Location: Remote working with occasional travel to Watford Head Office, National Offices, and Local Services.

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits: 29 days annual leave pro rata PLUS bank holidays, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands.

Closing Date: Tuesday 27th February 2024.

Interviews are scheduled for week commencing Monday 4th March 2024.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children\'s lives.

A bit about the role

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, your remit is to provide and manage a professional financial service in support of national teams in the Children\'s Services directorate, with primarily responsibility for Wales and Northern Ireland and offering support across other areas of the directorate as required.

This is delivered through leading a high calibre finance team to impact on strategic and commercial decision making, and influence and affect outcomes to enable each nation to effectively deliver services and generate bottom line contribution growth consistently, in agreed timescales and with due financial probity.

How you\'ll help to create brighter futures

• Lead on the production of accurate, timely financial information for Wales and Northern Ireland nations of the Children\'s Services directorate, and review and report on the same in accordance with approved budget and Business Plan requirements.
• Lead on all aspects of delivering Children\'s Services Wales and Northern Ireland directorate budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial modelling.
• Lead in scrutinising, challenging, and guiding budget holders and providing direction and understanding to recipients to enhance their financial acumen and utilisation of the data.
• Provide insightful reports into contract performance to Children\'s Services Wales and Northern Ireland Senior Leadership Team.
• Work cross functionally and in partnership with local operational management with financial negotiations (including attending commissioner meetings) with commissioners, as needed, and to ensure all financial and commercial contract outcomes are met, whilst looking to grow Action for Children\'s bottom line.
• Work closely with National and Operational Directors to ensure contract returns are maximised and all opportunities to grow the charities bottom line are taken.

Let\'s talk about you

• Qualified accountant with experience of working in an organisation that provides delivery contracts to its customers.
• Will have worked at senior level and partnered with senior stakeholders whilst experience in managing and developing a team.
• Working knowledge of local authority practices is desirable.
• Good IT skill sets including Excel and Oracle EPM Business intelligence systems or equivalent.
• A \'can do\' attitude and be willing to embrace change with transferable skillsets to help in other areas of finance.
• Flexibility and adaptability to be able to support work across the wider Children\'s Services directorate and Finance function as required.

Please see the for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Contact: David Simpson, Recruitment Partner on 01923 361732.

At Action for Children, we\'re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace by actively encouraging applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic candidates and people with disabilities, as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and meaningful action to ensure fair opportunity to all groups in our communities and for AFC.

Don\'t meet every single requirement? If you\'re excited about this role but your experience doesn\'t align perfectly with the job description, we\'d love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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