Finance and Planning Business Partner

Overview

In this role you partner with senior leaders to put finance at the heart of decision making, offering strategic and operational financial guidance. You will challenge and inform programme managers, shape business cases, and ensure risk, policy, and KPI delivery are managed effectively. You’ll translate financial data into clear business insight to support actionable decisions, while driving change and promoting best practice. The opportunity includes strong support and development as you contribute to the Library’s transformation efforts.

Pay / Benefits

• generous training opportunities

Responsibilities

• Support Executive Leadership Team, directors and their teams with planning, modelling, and analysis of financial information
• Act as a two-way conduit for information between the business area and finance
• Ensure decisions consider impacts on KPIs, funding sources, capital expenditure, risks, governance, regulatory landscape, and management information
• Assist with regular and ad-hoc decision making including business cases, new products, option appraisals and pricing
• Ensure delivery against performance KPIs through business as usual and change initiatives
• Support business/operational plan reviews to reflect business reality

Key requirements

• CCAB part qualified or AAT fully qualified with commitment to become CCAB qualified
• Courage to challenge managers and speak up
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Innovative and proactive approach to exploiting change opportunities and promoting commercial best practice
• Ability to interpret financial and performance information in layman’s terms for advising management
• Sound leadership and ability to develop small professional teams

• influencing and relationship-building
• clear communication
• leadership
• financial analysis
• planning and modelling
• business case development

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