Finance Business Partner

Full time, all year round

• 40 hours per week Monday to Friday 09.00 - 17.00
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Ever since it was founded over 450 years ago by John Lyon, Harrow School, John Lyon's School and the Harrow International Schools have been providing industry-leading educational opportunities to pupils from around the world. John Lyon's Foundation is the umbrella organisation that oversees the Corporation's schools and its charitable entities. The role: The Finance Business Partner provides financial, planning and analysis (FP&A) support to the CFCO; and finance business partnering support to senior stakeholders and finance colleagues across the Harrow School Corporation. It is an opportunity for involvement at the heart of this historic organisation, using your budget preparation, monthly reporting and financial modelling expertise to evolve the Corporation's robust financial processes; and your stakeholder experience to assist non-financial managers to agree budgets that provide value for money whilst delivering the ambitious plans that maintain our leading position within the educational industry. You will be comfortable providing input into board-level reports and will enjoy the opportunity to work on bespoke financial projects. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to this advertisement. The skills: This role will suit a candidate with first-class, end-to-end budgeting skills, from involvement in budget preparation, to financial modelling, assessing business cases and advising non-financial managers in budget conversations. You may have a background in auditing within a well-known accounting organisation before developing your skills as an accomplished financial business partner in a large company with diverse departments. You will have the ability to build trusted relationships with departmental budget holders by having financial conversations in a friendly, approachable manner with non-financial managers so that realistic budgets can be set and achieved. You will be known for your sound business judgement and initiative, with a curiosity and drive to pursue efficiencies and enable better ways of working. The benefits include:
• Free lunch.
• Automatic enrolment in the School's pension scheme.
• Salary sacrifice scheme.
• Use of the School's sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
• Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, so early application is recommended. Closing date: Midnight, 20 October 2024 Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community. The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.

The skills: This role will suit a candidate with first-class, end-to-end budgeting skills, from involvement in budget preparation, to financial modelling, assessing business cases and advising non-financial managers in budget conversations. You may have a background in auditing within a well-known accounting organisation before developing your skills as an accomplished financial business partner in a large company with diverse departments. You will have the ability to build trusted relationships with departmental budget holders by having financial conversations in a friendly, approachable manner with non-financial managers so that realistic budgets can be set and achieved. You will be known for your sound business judgement and initiative, with a curiosity and drive to pursue efficiencies and enable better ways of working.

The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Ever since it was founded over 450 years ago by John Lyon, Harrow School, John Lyon's School and the Harrow International Schools have been providing industry-leading educational opportunities to pupils from around the world. John Lyon's Foundation is the umbrella organisation that oversees the Corporation's schools and its charitable entities.

The benefits include:
• Free lunch.
• Automatic enrolment in the School's pension scheme.
• Salary sacrifice scheme.
• Use of the School's sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
• Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.