Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

6-12 months FTC

Manchester (1 day per week in office)

About Salix

Join us. Help deliver a greener future. At Salix, our aim is to deliver decarbonisation, create clean power and lower energy bills for consumers.

We enable people to live in warmer and healthier homes and we help deliver resilient public buildings which are better places to work, visit or use.

Our work means homes and buildings are cheaper to run as they benefit from cleaner and more sustainable energy.

We deliver and administer the government funding that unlocks greater energy efficiency and lower costs for councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities.

We are a trusted delivery partner to the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments, regional combined authorities and public sector organisations across the country.

But our role goes beyond funding and our impact through the Warm Homes Plan.

We provide practical expertise, support and insight throughout every stage of delivery, helping organisations turn ambition into real-world impact while shaping future policy and best practice along the way.

Driven by purpose and backed by decades of technical and delivery expertise, our teams work collaboratively to make complex programmes happen at scale.

If you want to work somewhere where your ideas are valued, your development is supported and your work contributes to a greener future, we’d love to hear from you.

The role:

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, this is a broad business partnering role supporting budget holders and delivery teams across Data, Technology and Comms, with a combined budget of just under £6m

Salix manages decarbonisation grant and loan schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds each year, alongside its own operating budget. You’ll provide high-quality management reporting, financial insight and business partnering across a varied portfolio which could include grants, loans, housing schemes and administration costs.

You’ll work closely with non-finance stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and clear financial analysis to support effective decision-making, strengthen forecasting and ensure strong financial governance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver timely and insightful monthly management reporting, including variance analysis and commentary.
• Work closely with budget holders and delivery teams, providing financial advice, support and constructive challenge.
• Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, challenging assumptions and helping stakeholders understand financial performance, risks and opportunities.
• Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts and identify emerging financial risks.
• Prepare cashflow forecasts and financial analysis across relevant programmes and portfolios.
• Support monthly and Board reporting, providing clear commentary and escalating material issues where appropriate.
• Ensure accruals, prepayments and journals are accurately prepared and reflected in the financial ledger.
• Support statutory and interim audit requirements and maintain strong financial controls and governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting, processes, systems and templates.
• Support finance training and help improve financial understanding across the organisation.

You will:

• Be a qualified, finalist or part-qualified accountant, or have equivalent relevant experience.
• Have strong experience of management accounting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Have experience providing effective financial business partnering and insight to non-finance stakeholders.
• Be comfortable constructively challenging budget holders and influencing financial decision-making.
• Have strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial information and communicate it clearly.
• Possess strong Excel skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Be confident working independently and managing competing deadlines.
• Have excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Ideally have experience within a grants, loans or public sector environment.
• Experience using NetSuite would be advantageous.

What's on offer:

• Hybrid working with a minimum of one day per week in the Manchester office
• 28 days' annual leave
• Contributory pension and life assurance
• Flexible working
• Supported training and development budget
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee support with public transport costs
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme