Finance Business Partner

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🕒 May 12

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

💵 £70k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Department for Education

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏛️ Government

📚 Education

Government • Education

Department for Education is the UK government department responsible for child protection, education, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. It develops policy, publishes guidance and regulations, administers services like student loans and school funding, and oversees research and statistics related to education and learning. The department provides information and online services for students, parents, teachers, and educational institutions, and ensures compliance with national education standards.

📋 Description

• Work alongside Programme Directors and their teams in capturing evolving requirements as they design, plan and implement the full delivery of the programmes (Pre-award 25%) • Review funding applicants’ cost templates for consistency, accuracy and value for money (Pre-award 25%) • Support the development of new funding models, including commercial analysis, granted to ARIA via its freedoms in the ARIA Act (Pre-award 25%) • Build trusted and effective post-award financial management support to Programme Directors (Post-award 50%) • Manage the relationship with external grant and contract recipients, ensuring that all invoice, reporting and audit requirements have been met (Post-award 50%) • Ensure that ARIA’s Programme Directors have visibility into reliable and transparent financial data on all Programme spend (Post-award 50%) • Execute accurate programme re-forecasting models (Post-award 50%) • Boost the Finance team’s developing AI and automation initiatives (Other 25%) • Feed into ARIA’s evolving data roadmap, enabling the rich data collected from Creators can inform cross-portfolio insights (Other 25%) • Lead on adhoc projects that boosts the Finance team in scaling to meet ARIA’s ambitions (Other 25%)

🎯 Requirements

• Highly numerate with a high level of attention to detail • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Experience of working as a business partner to multiple programmes or different business units • Ability of balance the trade-offs between Finance governance and programme priorities • Background in external audit, commercial finance, financial accounting or management accounting • High level of budgeting/forecasting or FP&A experience • Ability to manage own workload and priorities • Adaptable mindset and comfortable with working in a fast changing environment within a small, highly-performing team • Fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) • Experience of building financial plans with scenario planning (desireable) • Worked in mission-compelled organisations that frequently require trade-off decisions, including third sector (desireable) • Comfortable with working in new scenarios with an adaptive mindset (desireable) • Experience working within Finance governance structures, including internal and external audit and Audit Committees (desireable) • Has used a diverse range of systems associated with start-ups and scale-ups, including Google suite and data visualisation systems such as Tableau or Power BI (desireable)

🏖️ Benefits

• 27 days annual leave provision, with the option to buy/sell additional days • Hybrid working arrangements; 60% in office / 40% at home • Supportive environment for learning and development opportunities • Enhanced family leave arrangements • A free and confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme • Life Assurance • 2 days of paid volunteer days • 5% defined contribution pension scheme with Smart Pension • Cycle to Work scheme • An excellent office location in Kings X, London