Assistant Finance Business Partner WSD London & South
| Posting date: | 06 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,055 to £44,415 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Full and part accountancy allowance available |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 403870/2 |
Summary
We are transforming the way the Civil Service works by creating great places to work, leading the largest commercial office programme in the UK, working towards halving carbon emissions from government offices, and achieving greater value for taxpayers. And we are looking for innovative, solutions-focused people to join our team.
Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leading transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme, Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme, as well as delivering modern, cost-effective real estate service solutions.
Innovation and progress are at the heart of our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged. And we’re dedicated to becoming a leading, inclusive employer both in the external market and throughout the Civil Service. Our strong emphasis on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces.
Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability, nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth. We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningful impact; where you influence; where your voice really matters; where you help to shape our future direction.
The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.
To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Assistant Finance Business Partner role in the GPA is integral to ensuring that the GPA’s accounts are accurately recorded and present a high degree of integrity, producing insightful management information, forecasts and supporting the business and GPA clients to make informed decisions.
The WSD AFBP London & South will be responsible for working with internal regional and contract management teams, suppliers and clients to ensure an accurate and robust month end process is followed, presenting financial information to regional management teams and providing suitable challenge and support to their decision making, contributing to the annual building budget process, contributing to process improvements within the team and working across GPA to resolve any client related issues.
There are 3 roles in the team, reporting in to the Finance Business Partner Workplace Service Delivery – the London & South regional lead will work alongside a counterpart for the North & Central regions who are both responsible for working with the regional teams and involved in the contract management of the Hard FM, Soft FM and Security providers; and a central Performance and reporting lead, responsible for the Performance Partner relationship and leading on Workplace Services’ management reporting provision delivery to the operational and leadership teams as well as client finance and BNP interaction. The three team members will be expected to work closely together, to ensure consistency and efficiency across the national operation, and to work effectively with the central management accounting team.
Key Responsibilities
- Producing management accounts for relevant budget holders and contributing to GPA’s client budget process.
- Partnering with budget holders in the London & South Region.
- Provide advice on financial treatment of project costs to ensure that all items are correctly assessed for capitalisation, and that the treatment of abortive costs and feasibility works are appropriately treated as RDEL, while being allocated to the correct projects.
- Contributing to property reconciliations to ensure all expenditure has been fully recovered from tenants.
- Attendance at monthly stakeholder meetings to support the management of projects, supply chain and client relationships.
- Supporting any client discussions as required to ensure recovery of billed amounts, keeping accrued income minimal and controlled.
- Building a network internally with other finance teams to ensure smooth transition of data and knowledge between interlinked processes, and contributing as part of the wider finance team.
- Promote continuous improvement by developing and improving accounting processes and procedures relating to projects and other expenditure.
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations including accruals and prepayments.
- Analysing financial performance to identify variances and ensuring transactions are accounted for correctly.
- Preparing and processing journals.
- Supporting internal and external audits.
- Facilitating forecasting and reporting.
- Identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the financial data.
- Ensuring Record to Report principles are embedded within the GPA.
- Deputise for the Finance Business Partner as required.
The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.
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