Job Description

• Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure their performance against budget is understood and they remain up-to-date with current performance information. Gain insight from budget holders, to assist in making future financial projections enabling us to be proactive in decision making.
• Lead by giving specialist advice to management and operations on all finance related matter. Helping to align the directorate financial decisions to strategic objectives, maintaining, communicating and embedding the corporate view at all times. Design and develop insightful financial model to help shape operational decisions. 
• Act as an internal consultants in all finance related matters, building credible and influential relationships providing support and advice to the business. Engender and promote financial awareness and better use of financial expertise across the business, particularly targeting senior management and budget holders in associated Directorates.
• Take a lead on producing strategic financial modelling which feeds in to the development of the long term financial and fee strategy.
• Partner with SLT on commercial and financial decision making, focussing on cost reduction, revenue enhancement and efficiency opportunities.
• To design and develop monthly management accounts for the Directorates, and ensure they accurately reflect the current and future financial position 
• Lead monthly management accounts review meetings with Directorate senior management, helping to identify as well as understand possible risks and opportunities
• Production of timely monthly management accounts which feeds into the delivery of consolidated financial reports to the Executive Board and Council.
• To provide insightful commentary about the Directorates’ financial position, possible risks/opportunities on operations and finances to senior management and other key stakeholders.
• To update the general ledger by posting journals and ensuring the accuracy of ledger balances.
• To lead the annual budgeting process during the budgeting cycle, setting appropriate timetables and supporting budget holders and management across the to deliver the annual budget on time and to the required standard.
• To work closely with Directors and Assistant Directors, to develop five year budgets that are aligned to the strategic objectives and to ensure this is communicated and embedded within the operational business and the central finance team.
• To assist in the production and delivery of business planning across the organisation, ensuring operational and financial objectives of the business are well defined and aligned to the organisations strategy.
• To lead the Directorates’ forecasting process, ensuring latest financial forecast reflects the most current view of future operational and strategic plans. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities