WaterAid

Finance Business Partner

WaterAid

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £48,867 - £51,439 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Regularly advise UK team leaders and senior manager to review financial aspects of their operational plans.
  • Continue to develop the systematic forecasting process for departments and ensure robust 3 year financial plans are implemented
  • Support strategic decision making on long term financial plans and modelling, supporting WAUKs 10 year strategy
  • Develop enhanced self-service reporting relevant at budget holder and department level that supports optimal decision-making
  • Create efficient finance processes that best deliver the needs of the organisation
  • Provide training and advice to build the financial management competencies of budget holders
  • Work closely with the wider finance and IS team on delivering the organisational priorities

Requirements

  • Completed a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA).
  • Experience of formulating, overseeing and reporting on operational plans, including KPIs.
  • Demonstrable innovative ability; using data and insight to inform recommendations for improvements to products, processes or activities.
  • Proven experience of using insight and analysis to provide trends, inform and drive business decisions.
  • Keen interest in information systems, ability to learn new systems quickly.
  • Experience of accounting for restricted funds, preferably in an international organisation.
  • Adaptability to build effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues and work in a collaborative way.
  • Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise and co-ordinate multiple tasks and confident to work independently.
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
  • Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
  • Working knowledge of a budgeting and forecasting system.
  • Experience of using Power BI.
  • Working knowledge of SUN Vision Excel, or a similar multi-dimensional accounting system.
  • Knowledge of donor reporting requirements /experience of reporting to donors.
  • Knowledge of development issues and the sector.
Benefits
  • 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
  • Option to buy an extra 5 days’ annual leave
  • Employer pension contribution up to 10 %
  • Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
  • Season ticket loan
  • Free annual eye tests
  • ‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
  • Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
  • Sabbaticals
  • One paid volunteer day each year
  • Additional three days leave covering Christmas closure

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
financial forecastingfinancial planningoperational planningKPI reportingdata analysisbudgetingaccounting for restricted fundsfinancial managementreporting to donorsmulti-dimensional accounting
Soft skills
adaptabilitycollaborationorganisationprioritisationindependencecommunicationinnovative thinkingrelationship buildingtrainingdecision making
Certifications
ACAACCACIMACIPFA