Finance Business Partner

Royal Museums Greenwich

Hours
36 hours per week

About the Organisation

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities through sharing our collections and expertise. We form a campus within the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site, with supporting operations at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre in Kidbrooke, the Brass Foundry in Woolwich, and administrative offices in Greenwich.

About the role

As one of two Finance Business Partners, the postholder is responsible for ensuring that Royal Museum Greenwich’s strategic ambitions are correctly planned for and that adequate financial resources are in place to achieve them. Key elements of the role involve advising and supporting all staff with financial responsibilities to ensure that financial decisions are optimised and to keep relevant staff informed of key financial updates and changes, and to communicate any relevant changes to the rest of the Finance team.

Further core responsibilities include supporting assigned Heads of Departments and directors on all financial matters, advising on budgeting and forecasting, monitoring of actual results and ad hoc queries, and working as a team with the other Finance Business Partners, leading on the production of the monthly management accounts pack, ensuring timely and accurate reporting and incisive analysis and commentary.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce relevant, timely and accessible reports and ensure good dialogue to enable budget holders to monitor the financial position of their assigned budget(s)
• Working as a team with the other Finance Business Partners, lead on the production of the monthly management accounts pack, ensuring timely and accurate reporting and incisive analysis and commentary
• Support budget holders to produce reasonable and considered budgets and forecasts within an agreed timescale
• Working as a team with the other Finance Business Partners, lead on budgeting and forecasting to ensure a timely process and a high level of accuracy and engagement
• Undertake ad hoc analyses as requested by budget holders or senior finance managers to enable maximisation of income or the most efficient use of resources
• Provide financial support as required for fundraising bids
• Provide support as required to key museum projects
• Lead on reporting to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on all matters relevant to budgeting, forecasting and management accounts, including monthly submission of the Grant-in-Aid funding request
• Take responsibility for the chart of accounts for Income & Expenditure, ensuring that it is fit for purpose and user-friendly
• Provide training to non-financial managers with budgetary responsibility as required
• Support year-end processes as required
• Review and authorise payments as required

Other Responsibilities:

• Sustainability: Ensure their ways of working meet the museum's values around sustainability.
• Health and Safety: Observe all Health and Safety rules and procedures as laid down and attend all relevant training as required.
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Build a departmental culture which values and promotes a positive attitude to EDI.
• Carry out any other duties when required.
• Other reasonable duties and responsibilities as directed by the Head of Finance

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable track record of working in a business partnering role with non-finance managers to achieve high-quality reporting and budgeting forecasting within a charity or heritage cultural organisation
• Excellent analytical skills and strong proven problem-solving ability
• Strength in getting the best from IT systems to support planning and reporting needs
• Ability to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders 
• Customer and service focused
• A self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and to accomplish tasks to a high level of quality without supervision
• Superb attention to detail
• Adaptable and willing to meet the current and future needs of the organisation and key stakeholders
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft 365 packages
• Be prepared to be flexible in meeting the demands of the role, as the role may involve some evening and occasional weekend work

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of supporting large capital projects, ideally in an environment with a high fundraising element

Required Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)

Compensation & Benefits

• Generous pension scheme and life cover
• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 1 year) plus bank holidays
• 40% discount in our cafés, 30% in our shops
• Interest-free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
• Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
• A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely

How to apply

• Apply to our website

Interviews

• Interviews are pencilled in for w/c Monday 12th January

Policies

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.

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