Assistant Finance Business Partner

Assistant Finance Business Partner

Location: Home working

Salary: £31,000 - £33,000

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

We’re currently looking for an Assistant Finance Business Partner.   Whilst the role is home based, there is a requirement to travel occasionally to Twigworth, Gloucestershire where our Central Office provides financial support, leadership and governance to the group as well as a number of our sites across the country. 

The Role:

As a key member of the Finance Business Partnering Team you’ll be working closely with our Finance Analyst and Financial Controller in supporting one of our Finance Business Partners to ensure that the financial position and forecasting of a number of our services (schools/colleges) within the group is accurately reported.

Whilst ensuring our Principals are kept fully abreast of financial matters relating to their site you’ll be expected to help and guide the sites’ leadership teams to maintain good budgetary control; ensuring they are fully versed in their financials and are enabled to make appropriate decisions as a result.

For the services you’ll be responsible for; you’ll play a key a role in preparing the month end management accounts (with meaningful commentary and analysis); assisting the Finance Business Partner with the preparation of the annual budgets and monthly reforecasts; help to embed financial controls and processes on site and provide insightful analysis, performance monitoring and financial modelling as appropriate.

Experience: 

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:  

• AAT Qualified (or studying towards CIMA) preferred.
• Experience in working in a Finance team, and experience of producing monthly management accounts and reports.
• Strong IT skills with good knowledge of Excel.
• High degree of accuracy/attention to detail.
• Excellent team player with strong communications skills, with an ability to clearly explain financial concepts to non-financial managers.
• Credibility and confidence to work with senior managers across the organisation.

Whilst the role is predominantly home based there will be a need to work from our office in Twigworth and travel to our services occasionally.

What’s on offer?

Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

Save money on your bills!!

 With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food        bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)How to Apply: 

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Liz in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at Liz.Hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.