Finance Business Partner Job at USS (Liverpool)

Finance Business Partner

USS

Location:
United Kingdom , Liverpool

Category:
Finance

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

In your role as Finance Business Partner, you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders throughout the business in order to provide the required range of commercial finance challenge and support to a number of Pensions and Group functions. They will be responsible for Business Partnering agreed functions to provide reporting and analysis whilst monitoring their financial performance. The role includes contribution to the annual 3-year business planning cycle, including the annual budget. This will be supported by ongoing reforecasting, highlighting risks and opportunities to plan.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborate and build relationships with key stakeholders in order to influence decision making and gain insight into ways of working, using this insight to challenge business areas to consider Value for Money when delivering their objectives
Prepare and oversee the production of accruals, prepayments and other accounting journals into the accounting system, reviewing when complete to ensure the accurate representation of the management accounts for month, quarter and year end reporting
Prepare meaningful, accurate analysis investigating variances to budget and forecast to identify any risks or opportunities that may arise, reporting significant variances to senior finance stakeholders and suggesting potential next steps
Coordinate the collation of non-financial management information including headcount and KPIs to provide a comprehensive view of performance against targets
Provide guidance and support to assist with annual budget setting encouraging alignment with the wider business plan through ongoing communication with budget holders and other FBPs. Take ownership of end-to-end financial planning for relevant business areas including data collection/analysis, review (challenge where necessary) proposals, uploading final numbers into the Vena planning system and presentation to senior management
Produce the 3-year plan pensions pack agreeing the layout and design to illustrate costs associated with objectives. Coordinating inputs from other FP&A team members ensuring alignment to the group pack. Regularly review the pensions pack to confirm that it is reflecting the latest version of the plan and support the Senior Finance Business Partner to determine appropriate content for presentation to senior stakeholders. Provide detailed breakdown of main cost drivers explaining variances to previous plan and reasons for incremental expenditure/headcount
Prepare the CEM Benchmarking finance report submission re allocating elements of the cost base to present the most accurate view of USS’ spend vs benchmark and provide detailed variance analysis where necessary
Take ownership of the ongoing carbon works including the collection of USS operational emissions data and submission to the 3rd party support provider
Support Projects FBP reviewing business cases and attending meetings with relevance to connected business areas providing challenge of the cost/benefit analysis and communicating to stakeholders

Requirements:

Qualified accountant
Technical knowledge of accounting policies
Experience in analysing and presenting data to support decision making
In depth knowledge of business areas

What we offer:

Great starting salary
Generous annual leave package
Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
Employee Volunteer Day’s to support the communities where you work and live
Cycle to Work Scheme

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 19, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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