Junior Finance Business Partner

Description

• Ensure adequate financial controls and clear audit trails are in place to support accounting and reporting processes.
• Review monthly expenditure for allocated branches, compare Oracle finance system data, identify accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, and process journals as required.
• Support the Senior Finance Business Partner and wider team in budget planning and control, ensuring timely, accurate, and relevant financial reporting, draft budget preparation, and year-end accounts.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with branch staff and wider colleagues.
• Review budget monitoring returns, checking forecasts, year-to-date actuals, and budget data, and challenge areas requiring clarification to ensure robust financial oversight.
• Assist in maintaining overall financial control, ensuring the integrity of financial data, systems, and records.
• Produce monthly financial monitoring reports and forecasts for branches, highlighting issues to inform senior management decision-making.
• Create requisitions for goods and services in the Oracle purchasing system, confirm receipt of goods/services, and validate invoices for payment.
• Assist with financial ledger updates, including performing monthly reconciliations.

Requirements

• Budgeting, Forecasting and Costing (Understanding of budgeting guidance. Budget management. Understanding forecasting. Understanding costing) – Awareness Level.
• Experience in management accounts or currently studying for an accountancy qualification or holding a numerical/business degree.
• Basic finance skills (Numeracy. Excel) – Practitioner Level.
• Work flexibly across the team, adapting quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
• Working with Data in Finance (Data analysis. Data interpretation. Data visualisation. Interrogation of finance systems) – Working Level.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance