Finance Business Partner Location: Civic Offices, 2 Watling Street, Bexleyheath, DA6 7AT Start Date: ASAP Contract Duration: 6+ Months Working Hours: Mon Fri, 09 00, 36 hours per week Pay Rate: £ 45.74 Per Hour Job Ref: OR21651 Job Responsibilities Provide proactive financial and commercial support across the Council s transformation programme. Act as finance lead for option appraisals and commercial decisions, ensuring proposals are affordable, deliverable, and aligned with Council strategy. Translate service changes into quantified financial impacts, including revenue, capital, recurring, one-off, cashable, and non-cashable effects. Develop, review, and challenge business cases, financial appraisals, and investment proposals. Conduct cost-benefit analysis, scenario testing, sensitivity analysis, and break-even modelling. Analyse pricing, fees and charges, income projections, demand assumptions, and risk. Build and maintain robust financial models highlighting costs, savings, income, assumptions, and risks. Produce timely, accurate reporting on programme costs, savings, and benefits, including variance analysis and forecast outturn. Design and maintain processes to capture, reconcile, and evidence delivery costs, savings, and benefits realisation. Extract, validate, and analyse complex financial and non-financial data from multiple sources. Identify trends, drivers, and insights to inform commercial and financial decisions. Build strong stakeholder