Interim Finance Business Partner

The role will involve partnering with 3-5 schools and managing their budgeting and forecasting programme alongside the Heads. This may involve producing high level analytics for the governers and setting commercial budgets for growth.

Client Details

Our client is a well established multi-academy trust boasting a large proportion of Outstanding and good schools backed by a solid central function. The locally focused schools allows for outstanding sharing of teaching and learning and provide excellent support through a central service.

Description

The key responsibilities include;

- liaising regularly with Headteachers across the schools to understand and overcome key challenges affecting the financial performance of the business

- working with finance assistants within the schools and manage workload appropriately

- own and prepare the board pack preparation, month-end and assist on year-end

- own the delivery of insightful and comprehensive management reporting to aligned senior management team members

- support and lead ad-hoc strategic projects, investment/bid appraisal and transformation initiatives as required by the Head of Finance Business Partnering

Profile

The successful candidate will have;

- CCAB qualified

- a strong personality, comfortable challenging people and processes to drive the best business outcomes.
- a good communicator, comfortable with written and verbal presentation
- past experience of business partnering/financial planning and performance in a commercial entity would be beneficial
- good team player
- Delivery focused and willing to go 'above and beyond' to get the job done
- Ability to embrace change in a rapidly evolving organisation

Job Offer

275-325/day pending experience.