Finance Business Partner in Widnes

Location: Widnes
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Community Integrated Care
Job Hours: Full-time
Remote: Work from home

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What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Community Integrated Care is on an exciting journey of transformation and growth and we are looking to recruit an experienced, dedicated and efficient Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Team on a full time, permanent basis! 

This is a full time, permanent post and you can be based anywhere in the North West but must be able to travel to our head office in Widnes as and when required.

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.
  • Remote Working!  Do you want to work from home? Or do you prefer being in an office? With this role you have the option of hybrid working from home or from our head office in Widnes - or a blend between the two! 
  • Benefits:  retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
  • 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!
  • Dare to Learn:  Access to our amazing on line training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
  • 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.
  • Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role: The main function of this role is to help deliver the organisational targets for our TEC (Technology Enabled Care) and Charitable Projects departments. This role is responsible for understanding, analysing, and interpreting commercial finance information, which supports the achievement of financial targets within your area of responsibility. You will partner leaders in the organisation to make informed, financially sustainable, and commercially effective decisions through the provision, interpretation, and reporting of accurate MI, ensuring that information is operationally sound. You will also provide financial expertise, insight, and guidance for their stakeholders to shape the delivery of department strategy, and ensure that plans, budgets, forecasts, are aligned to strategic objectives and are financially viable. Day to Day (list not exhaustive see attached job description)
  • To be a key member of the operational leadership team, enabling effective governance and leadership of the TEC region.
  • To be a key member of the Commercial Finance business partnering team to ensure full coverage across the department, leading on cross-working and projects to ensure business continuity.
  • To ensure that the Partnerships and Communities teams are mainly funded through income inflows, with the remaining overhead justifiable as enriching the lives of the people we support through delivering best lives possible.
  • Work with the Director of Partnerships to maximise funding for the charity through access to fundraising and grants, ensuring that all applicable expenses are included and justified for submission in preparation for external review.
  • Provide excellent financial analysis, advice, and guidance to the Managing Director of TEC, Director of Partnerships and Communities, and Managing Director of Age Exchange.
  • To ensure that the Income and Expenditure of the TEC region, Age Exchange charity and the wider charitable purpose is representative and any variances to target have a clear commentary.
  • To ensure all significant financial risks and opportunities affecting short and medium-term projections are all captured.
  • To communicate, justify and negotiate with Local Authorities, Integrated Care Boards and other providers regarding fee rates, contractual and commercial requirements.
  • To scrutinise and challenge assumptions that build any short, medium, and long-term projections.
  • Responsible for the production, analysis and reporting of the TEC region, Age Exchange charity and the wider charitable purpose Budget and Quarterly Re-forecast’s.
  • To cost all new business opportunities within the TEC region, Age Exchange charity and the wider charitable purpose. This is ensuring that it’s financially viable alongside being commercially shrewd to deliver corporate growth targets.
  • Help prepare business cases regarding new business or cost investment ready for Executive and Board approval.
  • Report on the profitability of the property investment of the charity, analysing and reporting the utilisation of the service charge to ensure the people we support have the best lives possible.
  • Providing cross-organisational financial reporting on TEC and digital transformation across the charity.
  • By exception, assist other operations and the Commercial Finance department during busy periods and to cover absence
  • Your values:

    Our Ideal candidate

    Skills and Experience

  • Working towards or possess a relevant Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
  • Have a Finance Qualification (AAT, ACCA Certificate, CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting)
  • Experience in financial modelling and business partnering, preferably within the charitable sector.
  • Ability to analyse complex financial data, interpret trends, and draw meaningful conclusions to support decision-making.
  • Experience of providing accurate and meaningful summarised reports from mass data.
  • Have excellent Excel skills
  • Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

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