Finance Business Partner

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Community Integrated Care are seeking to appoint a highly skilled and experienced Finance Business Partner to join the Finance team working on a Full-time Permanent basis covering the North East region.

What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You may be required to visit services and attend meetings at our regional offices, but otherwise you can work from home.
• Competitive Salary: £35,000- £40,000 per annum (dependent upon experience) plus a £5,000 car allowance
• Holiday Purchase Scheme: up to 5 days
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: life assurance, retail discounts, leisure savings, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Employee of the month scheme
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life
• We will also pay for your DBS

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

• Provide excellent financial analysis, advice and guidance to the Managing Director and local leadership teams to enable them to effectively manage their regional business.
• To input, monitor and challenge the region’s five-year growth strategy.
• To ensure all significant financial risks and opportunities potentially affecting short and medium-term projections are all captured and ideally minimised or exploited.
• To cost all new business within the Central region. This is ensuring that it’s financially viable alongside being commercially shrewd to deliver corporate growth targets.
• To fully understand the full Central operation including all nuances to help partner and give sensible and rounded advice to deliver financial improvements.
• To work with the Management Accountants to ensure that the actual and target information in the ERP system are as a representative and realistic as possible.
• To work on set initiatives across the organisation to ensure we have a standardised UK wide approach on our financial processes and reporting.
• To scrutinise and challenge assumptions that build any short, medium and long-term projections.
• Help prepare business cases regarding new business or cost investment ready for Executive approval.
• To communicate, justify and negotiate with Local Authorities regarding fee rates and contractual requirements.
• To work across multiple regions to assist during busy periods.
• Working with our Director of Partnerships and Communities on our grants and fundraising strategy alongside ensuring accurate transactional accounting.

Your values:

• Ideally qualified to ACA / ACCA / CIMA (or equivalent)
• The successful candidate will have experience of working within a finance department
• Have intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills and have experience working on ERP systems.
• Able to develop and build sound working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• It is also important that you share our company values which are at the heart of everything we do and ensure that we deliver high quality, consistent care and support.

To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s

Community Integrated Care is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.