Job Description

Produce timely and accurate financial information and oversee the finances for all corporate services areas, building effective and successful relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and provide commercial insight and financial advice to enable stakeholders to understand, manage and achieve their budgetary targets.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure they understand their financial commitments and obligations and that they are able to interpret their results in a way to produce accurate future forecasts.
• Support budget managers in the preparation of their annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, and providing analysis and supporting schedules to ensure budgets and forecasts are robust and understood. .
• Produce monthly reporting packs showing performance against budget and forecast for each stakeholder, producing variance analysis to identify areas of overspend and appropriate actions and plans are in place to meet budget requirements.
• Provide meaningful and insightful commentary for input into the monthly and quarterly reporting packs including forecast and budget packs.
• Ensure that the commentary is sufficient to enable stakeholders to pick out the key items from the reports.
• Hold regular meetings with stakeholders and their teams to ensure that they understand their figures and to track against targets.
• To also suggest improvement priorities where they are not tracking favorably.
• Understand the future requirements of stakeholders and act as an early warner of any issues that may put targets in jeopardy, thus ensuring the robustness of Action for Children's forecasting and budgeting reporting.
• Lead on any financial input for significant business cases and ensure the financial data within any business case is robust and reliable.
• Liaise with the CFO to ensure full visibility of all data and assumptions made prior to signing off a business case

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrable communication skills to explain financial facts and data to non-financial managers.
• Building and sustaining relationships with operational colleagues and apply business partner skills to influence and drive decision making and change
• To act as a critical friend, providing financial challenge and critique to ensure robustness of business proposals and decisions
• Experience of managing and leading change, to introduce new systems and processes
• Planning and organizing skills to deliver work outcomes to time and quality standards, in particular for planning and managing the budget setting process, including coordinating and organizing various stakeholders and business units
• Working intuitively and using your own initiative to produce and develop monthly and quarterly accounting packs and relevant KPI information
• Writing reports to explain and pin point key impacts and actions, in a simple and concise manner
• Commercially astute and forward thinking and to utilize transferable skillsets in order that you can help other areas of finance.
• Good IT skill sets including Excel and TM1 / Business intelligence systems
• Qualified Accountant with a good understanding of the management reporting requirements and cycle within a large organization