Finance Business Partner
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £45,441 to £48,474 per year |
| Additional salary information: | pension, annual leave, flexible working |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1RG |
| Company: | West Sussex County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | CRS00800_1715678050 |
Summary
Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme, employers pension contribution at 19.70%
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional leave
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see ourStaff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
At West Sussex County Council, we put our customers at the heart of all our services. The Finance Directorate plays a leading role in this, in enabling finances to crucially support the delivery of front-line services. As a result, we are responsive to customer and stakeholder needs through a dynamic, empowered and flexible team. By aligning resources, this allows us to provide a professional service appropriate to future organisational needs. This is in addition to keeping WSCC safe and secure through appropriate financial control.
The Directorate's priorities are to ensure that the basics are done well whilst challenging the County Council to spend its money better, especially in the context of becoming more strategic and forward looking.
To find out more about this fantastic opportunity, keep reading!
The Opportunity
Salary: £45,441- £48,474 per annum, 2024/2025 pay award pending
Working Pattern: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Location: Your office base will be County Hall, Chichester and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office. This is led by the needs of the service.
As a high calibre finance professional, you'll be used to working with big numbers. Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional finance business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?
We're looking for a finance professional with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to clients. You will be responsible for advising and influencing the service to make informed financial decisions, which will have a direct impact on service delivery.
The role is offered on a generic basis, which in time means that the successful candidate could be assigned to support any part of the County Council. Initially it will involve working with Adult Social Care budgets. The service is experiencing a period of unprecedented change, where people are living longer resulting in significant growth in demand for social care services. Since we want to make sure West Sussex is a great place to live, the County Council recognises this challenge and has an ambitious improvement programme. At the heart of this is an aim to promote independence by enabling people to stay healthier and live in their homes and communities for longer. Linking financial data with performance information, and with a naturally enquiring mind, you will play an essential role in supporting the service to build a sustainable model for delivering adult social care services.
If you are looking for a diverse and exciting role which offers the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with the service, develop your talent and support senior officers by offering constructive challenge, assurance, recommendations and innovative solutions to add value to their service, then we would like to hear from you.
What experience and skills are we looking for?
As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:
- Strategic thinker - someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
- Relationship manager - someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
- Critical friend - someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.
In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS00800.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Laura Hardie at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .
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