Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an Assistant Finance Business Partner for a 3 month contract on a rate of up to £350/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid based.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Produce project budgets with the project managers.
– Conduct month end processing and adjustments to produce accurate project positions by month.
– Decision making on treatment of expenditure as revenue or capital.
– Produce forecasted outturns on a monthly basis by project.
– Produce finance papers for meetings.
– Engagement with colleagues
– Attendance at meetings
– Month end closedown of Assets and Depreciation
– Capital Reconciliation
– Capital Staff Workbook maintenance
– Contractors Workbook maintenance
– Monthly meetings with Project managers
– IT Maintenance – meetings and workbook review
– Timesheets – collation and analysis for capital
– Portfolio Oversight Board Paper, Project Highlight Reports for each Project, Continuous Improvement Highlight Report
 
Essential Skills:
 
– Strong stakeholder communication and engagement skills with ability to negotiate, provide constructive challenge, convey sometimes technical information to non-specialists, and foster close working relationships with teams.
– An ability to remain calm under pressure and to work at pace against changing requirements and priorities, many of these to challenging deadlines.
– Demonstrate enhanced analytical ability using a variety of tools to develop informed options and make evidenced recommendations to enable senior colleagues, directors, and ministers to make informed decisions.
– Experience of applying processes/standards to inform decisions on financial treatment and having the justification and evidence for this.
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.