The Vacancy
Position: Finance Business Partner
Location: Lombard House
Contract Type: Fixed Term – 12 Months
Help turn financial information into better decisions and more sustainable services.
The opportunity
We are looking for a proactive and credible Finance Business Partner to work alongside leaders and budget holders across designated service areas. This is a key role in strengthening financial planning, performance management, and decision-making across Inspire.
You will combine strong financial analysis with practical business understanding, translating financial and operational information into clear advice. You will help colleagues understand performance, identify risks and opportunities, and take action to deliver financially sustainable services.
What you will do
- Act as the primary finance contact for designated directorates and service areas, building trusted relationships with leaders, managers and budget holders.
- Lead monthly and quarterly management reporting, explaining key variances, trends, and underlying performance drivers.
- Lead budget setting, in-year forecasting and medium-term financial planning for your service areas.
- Provide constructive challenges and practical financial advice to support accountable decisions.
- Develop costings and financial models for business cases, tenders, funding applications, contract reviews and service developments.
- Identify financial risks and opportunities, agree actions with budget holders and track delivery.
- Promote strong financial control and compliance with policies, delegated authorities, procurement requirements and funding conditions.
- Use Access Financials, Power BI and other reporting tools to improve the quality and accessibility of financial information.
- Contribute to finance transformation, process improvement, testing, training and business-readiness activity.
What you will bring
- A recognised professional accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA, or part-qualification supported by substantial relevant experience.
- Experience of preparing and interpreting management accounts, budgets and forecasts.
- The ability to analyze financial and operational information and identify the issues that matter.
- Experience explaining financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues and influencing decisions.
- Confidence in providing financial advice and constructive challenges to managers and budget holders.
- Strong Excel and financial modelling skills, with the ability to use finance and reporting systems effectively.
- A practical, collaborative approach, sound judgement, and the ability to manage competing deadlines.
Why join Inspire?
This is an opportunity to shape how finance supports services at an important point in Inspire’s finance transformation. You will work in a modernizing finance function focused on better information, stronger decision-making and more effective partnership with operational teams.
Our values are central to how we work. We are Inclusive, Passionate, Determined, Kind, Honest and Innovative. We welcome applicants who can bring these values to life through their relationships, decisions and delivery.
Following the interviews a waiting list will be created for similar posts for a nine month period.
Inspire is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection based on merit
Our Organisation
Inspire is an all-island charity and social enterprise and our aim is wellbeing for all. We work together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions to ensure they live with dignity and realise their full potential.
We campaign to create a society free from stigma and discrimination with a culture of compassion that focuses on people and their abilities.
Our Benefits
Enhanced Annual LeaveCycle to Work SchemeShopping DiscountsEmployee Wellbeing InitiativesDeath in Service BenefitOccupational Sick Pay
To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.
WHJS1_NI
…