Overview
THE ROLE:
- The Financial Business Partner will be the critical link between finance and other departments.
- You’ll support key stakeholders to assist with the effective running of their departments.
- You’ll analyse financial information and develop insights to help departments make informed
decisions. Embedding identified risks and opportunities into future forecasts, you’ll provide
clarity on the financial impact and work with your designated areas to mitigate risk or maximise
opportunities. - Reacting swiftly to key trends/issues, performing ad hoc financial analyses with interpretation of
data to provide recommendations to senior management and stakeholders to aid decision
making. - You’ll be a key player in weekly trading/period end, collating key performance metrics from
stakeholders, ensuring integrity of data and providing reports. - You’ll support our Finance Operations Manager, preparing/reviewing weekly P&L flash/forecast
results for use by the Executive directors. You’ll lead the identification and sharing of
risks/concerns, proposing corrective actions. - You’ll support the period end process, within reporting deadlines, will process journals,
investigate variances to forecast/budget and review with Head of Financial Planning and present
to Senior Management - Your expertise will help shape the annual budget presentation.
- You’ll own and maintain planning data within budgets and strategic plans
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:
- Part qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with more than 1 year of business partnering experience.
- Advanced Excel skills with proficiency in Powerpoint
- Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and numeracy skills
- Ability to build constructive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent time management, prioritising and organising skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively to colleagues at all levels across the business.
- Self-motivated and able to make decisions.
- Problem solving skills with a pro-active can-do attitude.