Senior Finance Business Partner

Finance

Head Office, Alloa / Remote Working

Permanent

Hours: 37hrs per week

Appointed: £46,255 / Confirmed: £46,917 / Advanced: £49,559

Reference: SA/687

About us:

Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support.

A key expectation of everyone who works for Scottish Autism is that they live and breathe our values; Collaboration, Change Makers, Compassion and Contribution. Our values come into play throughout everything we do at work – how we work together, and how we deliver services to the people we support and to the people we work alongside.

The finance team provides proactive and effective support and information to stakeholders across Scottish Autism and beyond. They achieve this by developing a clear understanding of customer needs, the delivery of accurate and timely financial reporting, analysis and advice to meet those needs, and the maintenance of robust financial systems and controls.

About the job:

We have a permanent Senior Finance Business Partner opportunity within our Finance team. Reporting directly to the Financial Controller, you will play a key role in the finance leadership team. You will work collaboratively with finance and non-financial colleagues to partner leaders and their teams across the business.

In this role you will:

Work closely with the Financial Controller, providing operational and strategic insights to promote the effective leadership of the finance team

Enable optimal commercial and strategic decisions through providing proactive, timely and effective support across the business, interpreting financial information and guidance, and with an appropriate degree of challenge to the business

Prepare, consolidate and present forecasts, budgets and longer-term financial plans, working together with departments. Analysing, commenting on and challenging proposed plans throughout the process

Lead the annual budget setting process, translating business intelligence and needs into robust annual budgets

Provide line management support, advice and guidance to the Senior Finance Officer.

About You:

You will:

Have Strong leadership and management skills, with the proven ability to demonstrate continual improvement

Be collaborative, actively seeking to contribute to the collective success of the team

Be customer focused, with a passion for understanding customers’ needs and going the extra mile to meet those needs

Be a change maker, always looking for ways to improve processes and service levels, and to add value

Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build credibility across all levels of the organisation and positively influence outcomes and ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages.

You will be a fully qualified Accountant (candidates qualified by experience may be considered) with evidence of up-to-date knowledge and relevant management and cost accounting experience. You will have experience of systems optimisation and process improvement within a business partnering / commercial support environment and practical application of accounting of regulations and guidance.

Scottish Autism offers you:

32 days holiday (which increases with your length of service)

Non-contributory life assurance scheme

Workplace Pension (matched up to 9%)

Wellbeing Support

Discounts at high street retailers, travel and gyms

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Be Here, Be You, Create Change

Closing Date: Thursday 10th October 2024

Interview Date: Thursday 24th October 2024

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values. We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Registered charity number is SC009068.