Senior Finance Business Partner (Community Engagement)

Permanent/Full time

Location – Hybrid Working (up to 3 days in the office) – Birmingham, London or Sheffield 

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29,500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The Senior Finance Business Partner (Community Engagement) is a key leadership role within the FP&A team and is responsible for driving financial analysis and insights across our Community Engagement Network providing best-in-class financial business partnering to the Fundraising, Volunteering and Youth teams, with high quality analysis and business insight to both support and influence strategic decision making. 

The incumbent will be a key member of the Community Engagement Leadership Team, supporting the Chief Experience Officer and work closely with the network Directors. With support from direct reports, the role is responsible for providing business partnering including the delivery of the annual three-year budgeting process and interim forecasts, ensuring they are aligned to strategic operational plans.

The Senior Finance Business Partner must be self-motivated and impactful with first class financial planning and business partnering experience. This role requires gravitas and presence, with excellent communication and the confidence to present a logical argument and constructive challenge; to be the critical friend.

About You: 

To be successful in this role, you will be educated to degree level or equivalent, have a Professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), Significant experience in delivering accurate budgets and forecasts and experience in leading a team to deliver a best-in-class business partnering service across an organisation.

 About The Role 

• Provide strong support to the Head of FP&A through the delivery of high-quality business and financial analysis, with detailed outcomes and benefits, to identify and present coherent rationales for change, to support continued coordinated, consistent and effective delivery of services.
• Provide financial acumen, support and challenge to the networks team, including efficiency reviews, business cases and strategic planning to optimise the charity’s resources
• Lead on the analysis and review of information and processes (including cost base and pricing for fundraising grants) to ensure SJA achieves value for money, sustainability and maximise their commercial output and resource efficiencies.
• Drive continuous improvement in St John’s financial reporting, forecasting and analysis.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.   

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.