Finance Business Partner - #1693900

Our client, Enfield Council, is looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their Adult Social Care Finance Team

Enfield Council are a dynamic local authority driven by a clear vision of how we will transform the borough, address inequality and create a lifetime of opportunities for everyone who lives, works and learns in Enfield.

A vacancy has arisen in the Finance Business Partnering team - Adult Social Care Finance Team for a Business Partner leading on Adult Social Care.

The role will support the Head of Finance in the provision of high quality, flexible, professional finance support to service departments

Key duties include:

* Support and deputise for the Head of Finance and Finance Manager to deliver financial support, advice, and guidance to the relevant service area.

* Lead on the delivery of specific finance tasks supporting the annual financial cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, and closing the accounts.

* Conduct sensitivity analysis, review and challenge budget decisions, perform options appraisals, and lead on detailed calculations underpinning new funding and grants requests.

* Provide financial input to procurement processes and take responsibility for scoring financial sections.

* Proactively seek opportunities to improve financial support and identify efficiencies in service support.

We are seeking an ambitious self-starter with a proactive approach to work. The ideal candidate will possess excellent data interpretation and information analysis skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work under strict deadlines. Additionally, you should have excellent IT and communication skills, experience in analysing and challenging budget decisions within a complex organization to achieve value-for-money outcomes, and experience in financial modelling and assessing the viability of new initiatives and service models. If you have finance business partnering and data analysis experience and enjoy building good relationships and working closely with the service, then we'd like to hear from you. Enfield offers a hybrid working arrangement with an expectation that staff will be in the office at least one day every other week as a minimum.

* Staff will be expected to attend the office as required by the service.