Job Description

What's involved

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Department

Financial Planning & Insight

Salary

50,000 - 55,000

Role: Finance Business Partner

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: 08/08/2025

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:


Competitive salary and pension scheme 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years Hybrid, Flexible working Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme Discounts - you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,416 employees and over 31,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with a rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.



St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response & Nighttime Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The Finance Business Partner is responsible for providing a best-in-class business partnering service to St John's Enterprise Network, with high quality analysis and commercial insight to both support and influence strategic decision making by St John's management teams. They will support the Senior Finance Planning & Strategy Manager - Enterprise and operate within a team to deliver against the broader responsibilities and strategic direction for Training & Supplies.



They will also be a key member of the Financial Planning and Insight team to ensure delivery of the annual three-year budgeting process, that is aligned to strategic operational plans, and the analysis of the financial performance and forecasts of the business against it. This will require regularly meeting with relevant stakeholders to critically review and challenge reported performance against agreed plans.

About You

You will hold a Professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) Have significant experience in managing the day-to-day, monthly and annual production of management accounting processes PQE experience in commercial finance roles Demonstrable, previous, extensive experience in a finance business partner role A track record of delivering high quality business and financial analysis, providing insight into, business outcome drivers, the future business state, alternative scenarios and options Have a track record of supporting the end-to-end processes for in-year forecasts and annual budgets and three-year plans that are aligned to business strategy Experience in identifying, controlling and managing risk, cost savings and efficiencies Be naturally curious and have a genuine interest in change and technology Take personal ownership and possess a flexible 'can do' mind set and be able to manage and resolve conflicting priorities and stakeholder concerns

About the Role

Provide impactful and effective finance business partnering to St John Budget Holders, the Senior Management and Executive Teams. Work with the relevant stakeholders, to timetable in the production of the charity's monthly management accounts and the annual budgeting and in-year forecasting process that is the aligned to business plans. Drive continuous improvement in St John's financial management reporting, forecasting and analysis. Drive continuous customer experience improvement by simplifying and improving St John's financial processes, to provide your collective internal and external customers, an efficient and effective finance experience. Provide financial acumen, support and challenge to St John's income generation teams, including pricing and financial analysis of new and existing products, contracts and development of process efficiencies and definition of solutions for operational effectiveness Provide insight through KPIs and reports that offer relevant insight and information on Enterprise business units Provide clear and understandable narrative to stakeholders and the rest of the team, advocating good accounting principles and helping to educate, inform and develop others within the wider finance team. Identify financial risks and ensure that adequate measures and controls are in place for them to be controlled and managed, or escalated where necessary. Work with operational business partners to provide the financial analysis and appraisal for bids, tenders and business cases, including cost/benefit of capex investment projects, and support the preparation and submission of business cases to Executive Teams for approval. Work together with commercial analytics team to provide insightful metrics, analysis and reporting to help explain and predict likely performance, highlighting risks & opportunities including comparison of competitors and external market markers Utilise technology and tools to continuously improve the presentation and content of the charity's financial management reports to best support and meet the needs of Budget Holders, the Senior Management and Executive Teams. Perform any other duties commensurate with these responsibilities, the band of the post and skills and qualifications of the post-holder.




Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk





For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply



We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women's groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.

'St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role'.



Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.