Finance Business Partner

• Permanent Finance Business Partner role within an exciting enterprise environment
• Instantly recognisable brand with an ever-growing global presence

Client Details

Our exclusive partner is one of the most instantly recognisable UK brands out there. As a blue-chip enterprise, this would be the ideal environment for somebody with the a retail, FMCG or sports background in commercial finance to surround themselves with an ambitious team while adding value to the global brand. As one of the rare high street brands to have not been impacted too severely in 2020, they are now uniquely equipped to add new talent to their team in order to ensure success against the ambitious plan for 2021.

Description

• Leading financial performance reviews with the key operations stakeholders that you support, helping to drive action to improve financial performance, particularly focusing on deficit services and those tracking behind budget
• Support the business in maximising income through, for example, supporting fee costings and financial responses in tenders
• Support the business in controlling and ensuring the most efficient use of costs, for example, through the effective review and management of hours and payroll spend as well as non-payroll spend
• Develop and deliver in depth analysis to the business to make further recommendations around how financial performance can be improved
• Provide regular and ad hoc insightful reporting to your stakeholders as needed
• Coach and educate the operations team in terms of financial understanding to help them to improve service performance
• Support the budgeting process, building this bottom-up working closely with your key stakeholders to ensure there is engagement and buy-in to the budget targets
• Provide ad hoc financial support to the operations team and other stakeholders as needed
• Provide ad hoc support for the Head of Finance Business Partnering and the CFO as needed
• Work closely with other areas of finance to ensure key business and finance priorities and processes are aligned and give the best outcome
• The role holder will support the Head of Finance Business Partnering and CFO as needed.

Profile

• Have experience of working in a fast-paced finance business partnering role with a commercial and strategic outlook
• Be a good relationship builder, who is supportive, able to build rapport and work collaboratively with key stakeholders
• Be Fully Qualified with a recognised accountancy qualification (CIMA/ ACCA/ACA)
• Have strong analyticand interpretation skills with an ability to sport trends and make commercial judgements where appropriate
• Be organised and thorough, with an attention to detail and be able to see things through to completion
• Have experience of budgeting and forecasting, be able to work with stakeholders to deliver a budget in line with expectations
• Be able to coach and educate non-finance stakeholders, explaining complex financial issues in a simple and easy to understand way
• Be able to challenge in a constructive way
• Be resilient and flexible, and be able to deal with changing and competing proprieties
• Have Advanced Excel and other Microsoft office skills
• Have a willingness to travel to support key operations stakeholders across Yorkshire and the North East as needed

Job Offer

• Competitive salary (£40,000 - £50,000)
• 5 hours a week
• Excellent flexi-time policy
• 20 days + 8 bank holidays rising annually up to 25 days + 8 bank holidays
• Alfreton based