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Assistant Finance Business Partner
£48,873 - £59,220 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth, London
Hybrid role (2-3 days in the office)

Are you passionate about making financial improvements, implementing change and want to diversify your local government experience?

Within Children’s Finance, our role is to strategically advise Service areas on all financial matters in the wider organisational context, while also supporting them to set and manage their budgets effectively, along with monitoring the delivery of cost savings and efficiencies as we deliver our programme of business change. In Children’s Services, we operate a business partnering model, ensuring that our finance team most effectively supports and facilitates specific service areas.

Can you join us to streamline our financial reporting process and drive efficiencies and continuous improvement to ensure robust financial management?

About the role

As Assistant Finance Business Partner, you will report to the Strategic Finance Business Partner for Children’s Services – deputising for them when necessary. You will be expected to:

• Deliver financial management through accounting, budgetary control, forecasting, and provision of financial advice. You will be expected to handle high volumes of financial data, and work closely with budget holders and other non-financial stakeholders, translating and summarising this data and providing effective challenge as required.
• Take a lead on financial reporting and ensure timely and accurate preparation of monthly budget monitoring reports. You will play a pivotal role in streamlining financial reporting processes within the Children’s Services Finance Team.
• Drive the production and analysis of KPI reports, providing clear insights to support business decisions.
• Work with the Strategic Finance Business Partner and support the Council’s medium-term financial forecast (MTFF) and within this the development of strategic financial plans and models. You will be expected to drive efficiencies and savings proposals to ensure that savings targets are achieved.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Qualified Accounting Technician - AAT; OR Part qualified CCAB Accountant - CIPFA, ACA, ACCA; OR Part qualified CIMA or suitably qualified by experience.
• Experience and proficiency in using standard IT packages (MS Office specially MS Excel & PowerPoint) and have ability to train and support others in their effective day-to-day use.
• Ability to simplify complex financial issues and present them in a manner that the recipient understands, and in a relevant format with the right level of information.
• Experience of management and /or financial accounting beyond a basic level, as well as, producing budget monitoring reports and supporting the effective use of these.
• Working within public/third sector Finance or Finance in the private sector providing a public sector service.

Join our forward-thinking finance team and play a key role in driving financial sustainability, innovation and improvement across Children's Services. Apply today and be part of a team where your insights will influence decisions that matter.

Closing Date: 9 August 2026
Shortlisting Date: w/c 10 August 2026
Interview Date: w/c 17 August 2026

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.