# Finance Associate Business Partner

**Company**: London Borough of Havering
**Location**: Romford, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 50,676 - 54,927 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Finance Associate Business Partner role at London Borough of Havering provides financial support and advice to Council services. You will focus on ensuring effective resource management, accountability, control, and compliance with statutory obligations and corporate standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading financial reporting and analytical review across the performance cycle

- Advising budget holders and senior managers on revenue and capital budgets

- Reporting actual performance against budgets, benchmarks, and forecasts

- Developing robust in-year forecasts and providing insight to enable services to change direction, mitigate risk, and make the most of opportunities

- Training and supporting budget holders to monitor expenditure and produce monthly forecasts

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Part-qualified CCAB accountant status or AAT qualification with significant relevant experience

- Extensive accountancy experience, ideally in the public sector or local government

- Experience of providing financial management support and working constructively with budget holders

- Advanced Excel skills, strong Word and PowerPoint capability, and experience of large computerised finance systems

- Strong relationship-building, influencing, negotiation, and problem-solving skills

The salary for this role is £50,676 - £54,927 per year.

London Borough of Havering offers a supportive and inclusive working environment, flexible and hybrid working arrangements, generous annual leave, and extensive learning and professional development opportunities.

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## Skills

### Required
- CCAB accountant
- AAT qualification
- financial management
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint

### Nice to have
- public sector experience
- local government experience
- financial planning
- budgeting

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