Business Manager
Job Introduction
As one of UK's best employers we have an exciting new opportunity for a Business Manager to join our Children & Families Service.
Location: Together Trust Central Office, Schools Hill, CheadleHybrid working – covering services across the Northwest37.5 hours per week | Full time – Permanent roleSalary: £41,490 per annum
Reports to: Head of Service, Children and Families
The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people we support.
The Children & Families Service supports children and young people with learning disabilities, autism, disabilities and complex needs in residential homes and a Fostering service across the Greater Manchester area.
We are looking for a Business Manager who will play a key role in the Management Team overseeing budgets reviews, forecasts, expenditure, due diligence of service delivery. They will support the Head of Service, Principal Managers, Fostering Manager and Registered Managers to ensure services operate in an efficient and cost-effective way.
This role is a new role to the service operation, and we are looking for a compassionate, collaborative, caring individual to drive change, engagement and excellence through their expertise to enhance, and empower our operational leads.
Responsibilities include but are not exhaustive;
- Operational Finance - liaise with the finance business partner and functional leads to ensure processes are in place to track and report financial performance across all service activity
- Contract Management - Work closely with service leads to ensure contracts are embedded effectively and managed to evidence efficient and quality service delivery
- Resource Management - Liaise with internal Trust department including People and culture, Finance, Digital, Communications,. Business Development alongside service leads.
- Service and Contract Development -liaising with and supporting Business Development, service leads and Head of Service to support the development of innovative and robust service models and proposals ensuring new tenders are won and funding secured
- Provision of budget and planning support along with commentary and compliance working closely with all service leads.
- Escalate anomalies and present findings to Senior Stakeholders, peers and Registered Managers.
- Create and complete audits.
- Experience in E-rostering or similar systems experience.
- Understanding and management of staff turnover and absences.
- Involvement with tenders and due diligence.
The ideal candidate.
- Qualifications – a relevant degree or professional qualification in Business, Management or Finance to at least Level 4. - Essential
- AAT or ACA Qualified. - Desirable
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Financial management costing and audit to include Budget/cost centre management/statutory accounting/cost models preferably within the Charity sector.
- Enthusiastic and self-driven enjoying building relationships with all stakeholders.
- A problem solver who enjoys finding solutions with a positive outlook.
We also offer….
- Annual Leave27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years. Based on a working pattern of 5 days per week.
- Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service
- Occupational sick payand family friendly policies includingenhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platformoffering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
- Proud to be a real living wage employer
- Refer a friend scheme, rewards for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
- Long service awardsincluding cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programmefor you and adults at your home
- Inclusive networksfor colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability & Neurodiversity Action group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together)
Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.
Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
Find out more — watch our short video to see what it’s like to work with us.
Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support y