Manager, Financial Advisory Finance Business Partner, Finance, Enabling Functions, London
- Recruiter
- Deloitte (UK)
- Location
- London, Greater London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 11 Sep 2021
- Closes
- 11 Oct 2021
- Ref
- 6879
- Job role
- Finance business partner
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Manager
Job description
Your opportunity
We are looking for a highly skilled Finance professional to join our team of Business Partners.
Working closely with practitioners and partners in our Financial Advisory business, you will gain a high level of understanding of opportunities and challenges in the business in order to provide financial advice and enable better decision making. For the role to be effective you will need to build strong relationships with all stakeholders based on trust and impact.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Your role
Will include specific responsibilities:
Your work, your choice
At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.
Location: This role will be based from our London offices there maybe occasional travel to our regional offices.
Work pattern: This is a full time permanent opportunity.
Your professional experience
Your service line: Enabling Functions
At Deloitte,we're all aboutmakingan impact that matters, together.And nowhere is this moreapparent than among our 2,000 strongEnablingFunctionsteams. With our combined specialist skills and business partnering expertise,weprovide all the essential strategy, support and advice our client-facing colleagues need, right across the firm. This enables them to focusall oftheir efforts on delivering the best service possible to their clients.So not only will you be providing world-class support to our internal clients, you'll be making an impactforallthehugelyinfluential organisations Deloitteworks withtoo.Covering all our distinctareas:Human Resources, Clients & Industries, Finance & Legal,Central Business Services, National Quality & Risk Management,Technology & Digital Services,and Real Estate,the opportunities herearevast. And what's more,you can grow your career in whatever directionyou choose.We'll support you all the way.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
About Deloitte
Our Purpose & Strategy
To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society - defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it's about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.
What do we do?
Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe
The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.
What do we value?
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Being a Leader at Deloitte
Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people - both inside and outside work - and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.
We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but our Leadership Charter helps all of our people understand what we're looking for:
Your opportunity
We are looking for a highly skilled Finance professional to join our team of Business Partners.
Working closely with practitioners and partners in our Financial Advisory business, you will gain a high level of understanding of opportunities and challenges in the business in order to provide financial advice and enable better decision making. For the role to be effective you will need to build strong relationships with all stakeholders based on trust and impact.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Your role
Will include specific responsibilities:
- Partner with the business to understand financial challenges, providing expert advice and solutions
- Responsibility for financial planning and forecasting, challenging the business to achieve growth
- Providing financial advice and analysis to leadership on areas such as investment and capital expenditure, acquisitions, due diligence reports, business cases, financial models, post-investment reviews, pricing, staffing and business shape, partner performance reviews
- Analysising MI providing value added insights into business performance and driving investigations
- Owning key processes and standards across Business Finance to drive ongoing improvement and consistent best practice
- Driving strategic initiatives from conception through to implementation and realisation of benefits
- Work closely with the Financial Control team and gain an in-depth understanding of key controllership metrics
- Drive increased financial acumen in the business
- Develop trust and build strong relationships with practitioners
- Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
Your work, your choice
At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.
Location: This role will be based from our London offices there maybe occasional travel to our regional offices.
Work pattern: This is a full time permanent opportunity.
Your professional experience
- We would expect a successful candidate to have the following experience:
- Recognized accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Experienced in a business partnering role
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the key factors which influence a professional services business
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; developing strong relationships all levels of staff and partners with ability to influence where required
- Strong technical, problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to drive change and experience of leading initiatives from concept to implementation
- Energy and motivation; an enthusiastic and dedicated team player
- Excellent communication skills - experience of dealing with senior stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with ability to work on own initiative, and under pressure to meet deadlines
- Good IT knowledge and skills (strength in Excel essential)
- Knowledge of SAP would be advantageous
Your service line: Enabling Functions
At Deloitte,we're all aboutmakingan impact that matters, together.And nowhere is this moreapparent than among our 2,000 strongEnablingFunctionsteams. With our combined specialist skills and business partnering expertise,weprovide all the essential strategy, support and advice our client-facing colleagues need, right across the firm. This enables them to focusall oftheir efforts on delivering the best service possible to their clients.So not only will you be providing world-class support to our internal clients, you'll be making an impactforallthehugelyinfluential organisations Deloitteworks withtoo.Covering all our distinctareas:Human Resources, Clients & Industries, Finance & Legal,Central Business Services, National Quality & Risk Management,Technology & Digital Services,and Real Estate,the opportunities herearevast. And what's more,you can grow your career in whatever directionyou choose.We'll support you all the way.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
About Deloitte
Our Purpose & Strategy
To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society - defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it's about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.
What do we do?
Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe
The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.
What do we value?
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Being a Leader at Deloitte
Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people - both inside and outside work - and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.
We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but our Leadership Charter helps all of our people understand what we're looking for:
- We live our purpose: we act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognising others for the impact they make
- We develop talent: we develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
- We drive performance: we deliver exceptional client service; maximise results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
- We believe positive influence can make an impact that matters: we influence clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
- We move, together, towards a strategic direction: we understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligning people to objectives and setting priorities and direction.