Senior Finance Business Partner (Adults Social Care)

About the Role

Sutton Council is seeking an exceptional candidate to fill the role of Senior Finance Business Partner in its shared finance service with Kingston Council. Whilst this role sits within the shared service, its focus is on Sutton Council only. It will focus its support on the Adults Social Care unit within the council's People Services directorate..

This key role supports the Strategic Finance Business Partner (Adults Social Care) by providing support for services and their budget managers. The primary focus will be on revenue but elements of the capital programme may fall within their remit. The successful candidate will take responsibility for:

delivering support to budget managers to support core financial processes and activities, including planning and budgets, financial management and monitoring, and year end processes

supporting budget managers to fulfil their financial responsibilities

being a critical friend to budget managers to ensure that forecasts and financial modeling is robust and realistic

supporting the Better Care Fund financial administration 

reviewing service databases (such as Mosaic) to create useful analysis and insight to inform financial processes

assisting in the completion of statutory returns or ad hoc requests for information.

About Us

This role is part of the Financial Planning and Business Partnering team that supports Sutton Council only, within the shared finance service. The team has 17 positions that combine to deliver revenue and capital financial planning and business partnering services.

The aim of the shared finance service is to add value and inspire success and we do this by:

Translating business intelligence into business success by delivering clear professional advice and insight

Safeguarding the financial health of our Councils

Empowering our customers to manage their finances

Learning, improving and exceeding; supporting each other to develop our talent and achieve more.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

Experience providing high quality business partner support to budget managers in a large organisation

A relevant professional qualification (e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, MBA etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience of operating at that level

Experience of working in a customer-focused environment and achieving successful outcomes in the delivery of services that meet customer needs

Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to provide detailed and accurate information at pace with little oversight

Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, with the ability to discuss, analyse and present finance concepts and processes in a range of ways.

It is desirable that candidates will have experience supporting adults social care services in a local authority.

Our Offer To You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)

Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)

Three volunteering days per year in Sutton or Kingston

Comprehensive learning and development programme

Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities

Interest free season ticket loans

Local Government Pension Scheme

Car parking scheme

Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

Zip car scheme

Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses

Confidential wellbeing and counselling support

Subsidised gym membership