Senior Finance Business Partner

This role is a UK-based, hybrid role in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

About the role:

The Senior Finance Business Partner will provide a commercially focused finance business partnering service across UCAS. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, this role is critical to driving financial performance across the organisation, providing insight, challenge, and support to ensure the effective delivery of the UCAS strategy.

A key focus will be on evaluating strategic investments, supporting on business cases and ensuing robust benefits realization which deliver impact and maximise return on investment.

Please read the full job description and accountabilities for full details of the role.

Skills, qualifications and experience:

• Qualified accountant or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of work experience with excellent knowledge and understanding of financial accounting principles and processes.
• Strong expertise in investment appraisal, business case development, and benefits realisation.
• Line management experience.
• Outgoing, persuasive, and a confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable operating in the detail, but also with the ability to understand the big picture
• Ability to analyse and report at a strategic and operational level in a concise agile manner to suit the audience
• Confident and organised to lead projects in a structured way
• The workload is diverse and time pressured, so you will be a "right first time" type of person, comfortable keeping plates spinning whilst always delivering on time and to a high standard
• Curious and constantly striving for improvement; the ability to challenge the status quo and look for innovative and creative ways to solve problems and improve processes
• Proven experience of financial performance reporting and planning, with a clear view on how to present the information and make recommendations
• Experience of partnerships and acquisitions
• Highly proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Discrete and trustworthy.

Package:

• 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)
• Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
• A generous pension scheme
• Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox
• Internal training and development
• Subsidised gym and café
• Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme
• Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion

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