Finance Business Partner Bexley17*

Finance Business Partner

Location: Civic Offices, 2 Watling Street, Bexleyheath, DA6 7AT

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Duration: 6+ Months

Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 17:00, 36 hours per week

Pay Rate: £ 45.74 Per Hour

Job Ref: OR21651

Job Responsibilities

• Provide proactive financial and commercial support across the Council’s transformation programme.
• Act as finance lead for option appraisals and commercial decisions, ensuring proposals are affordable, deliverable, and aligned with Council strategy.
• Translate service changes into quantified financial impacts, including revenue, capital, recurring, one-off, cashable, and non-cashable effects.
• Develop, review, and challenge business cases, financial appraisals, and investment proposals.
• Conduct cost‑benefit analysis, scenario testing, sensitivity analysis, and break‑even modelling.
• Analyse pricing, fees and charges, income projections, demand assumptions, and risk.
• Build and maintain robust financial models highlighting costs, savings, income, assumptions, and risks.
• Produce timely, accurate reporting on programme costs, savings, and benefits, including variance analysis and forecast outturn.
• Design and maintain processes to capture, reconcile, and evidence delivery costs, savings, and benefits realisation.
• Extract, validate, and analyse complex financial and non-financial data from multiple sources.
• Identify trends, drivers, and insights to inform commercial and financial decisions.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across transformation, service, and corporate teams; act as a credible, constructive advisor.
• Present complex financial information clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Ensure financial models, reports, and processes meet internal control, audit, and governance standards.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of financial processes and data quality.

Person Specification

Must-Have Requirements

• CCAB qualified accountant (or equivalent) or significant senior finance/commercial experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Strong knowledge of local government finance, including budgeting, forecasting, MTFS, and public sector constraints.
• Proven experience developing and challenging business cases and financial models.
• Commercial acumen, including evaluation of income generation, pricing, commercial models, and contracts.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets.
• Hands‑on modelling and reporting skills (advanced Excel; experience with Power BI or similar tools desirable).
• Strong communication and influencing skills; able to explain finance to non-finance colleagues and challenge assumptions constructively.
• Ability to find, cleanse, reconcile, and combine data from disconnected or inconsistent sources.
• Experience working independently and delivering high‑quality outputs to deadlines.

Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Experience supporting transformation programmes (cost reduction, service redesign, operating model change, digital transformation).
• Experience in commercial projects such as fees and charges reviews, traded services, or income optimisation.
• Experience presenting finance content in governance reports (boards, committees, cabinet‑style).
• Familiarity with local authority finance systems and data environments (ERP, general ledger, purchasing/AP, HR/payroll, contract registers).

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