Ivy Rock Partners
Senior Finance Business Partner
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This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK's leading social housing providers at a time of significant investment and organisational change. Working as part of a high-performing Finance Business Partnering team, you'll provide strategic financial support across a broad corporate portfolio, partnering with senior leaders.
This is a highly visible role where you'll influence decision-making, support major change programmes and ensure finance plays a key role in delivering organisational priorities.
You'll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing commercial insight, robust financial analysis and constructive challenge.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with Directors and Heads of Service across Corporate Services and Transformation.
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting process for your portfolio.
- Provide insightful financial analysis, identifying trends, risks and opportunities to support strategic decision-making.
- Challenge business cases and investment proposals, ensuring financial assumptions are robust.
- Support the development of long-term financial plans for corporate functions.
- Monitor programme expenditure, benefits realisation and delivery against budget.
- Produce high-quality management information and present financial performance to senior leadership.
- Build strong relationships with budget holders, improving financial understanding and accountability.
- Drive continuous improvements to financial processes, reporting and business partnering across the organisation.
- Support year-end processes, audit requirements and wider corporate finance initiatives as required.
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We're looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner who enjoys working closely with operational stakeholders and influencing decision-making.
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You'll ideally bring:
- A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA).
- Proven Finance Business Partnering experience within a large, complex organisation.
- Experience supporting corporate functions such as Transformation, PMO, IT, HR or central services.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting and management reporting experience.
- Excellent commercial acumen and analytical skills.
- Experience supporting business cases, investment appraisals and change programmes.
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders.
- Strong Excel skills and experience using large ERP systems.
- A proactive approach with a genuine passion for continuous improvement.
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