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Senior Finance Business Partner - UK Industrial Fusion Solutions
Overall Purpose:
A Senior Finance Business Partner (SFP) is a key role in supporting the delivery of major programme and/or Business Unit (BU) objectives. As a valued member of the Senior Management Teams (SMT) for the UKIFS major programme areas the SFP provides financial support in a range of activities covering strategy, planning & analysis, accounting, reporting, bids and costing support, hoc project work. Whether providing financial input into the 5 Year planning process, a new business case, or closing the monthly accounts, a strategic outlook, accuracy, timeliness, collaboration and understanding of performance essential in this important & high-profile role
Accountabilities:
* To be the key Finance Partner for the programme area or BU; acting as the key point of contact for all finance related matters of programme or BU delivery.
* Work closely with the programme or BU SMT to ensure that programme or BU objectives are delivered and to provide challenge around financial performance
* Review and analyse performance, producing reports and commentary for the monthly management accounts, individual project managers and business unit management to enable monitoring of profitability against budget, reasons for major variances, and risks and opportunities.
* To ensure provision of consistent, high quality financial information, reinforced by high quality insight and financial advice, supporting the programme / BU to deliver the right financial outcomes and to help drive sustainable performance improvement
* Work with the Head of Financial Accounts to ensure accurate recognition of expenditure & revenue in accordance with UKIFS financial policy & where appropriate, with IFRS15 Revenue from contracts with customers, and to ensure that aged debt is kept to a minimum
* Working closely with your SMT & business area to ensure the successful delivery of the business strategic planning, budgeting and forecast processes
* Build effective working relationships with your key PM's and other relevant senior managers and stakeholders to enable the creation of robust programme or BU budgets and periodic forecasts at project and at a consolidated business unit level.
* Support the maintenance of a robust control environment, including responsibility for relevant balance sheet accounts appropriate to the business area, such as prepayments, accruals, Work in Progress, Income in Advance are fully reconciled with adequate supporting documentation available for audit purposes.
* Act as key point of contact for programme audits & ensure all audit requirements are met.
* Follow up on internal audit actions and ensure they are closed out to agreed timescales
* Support finance wide initiatives, such as testing of new reports & upgrades, and other ad hoc work.
* Support the overall capability within finance by leading on initiatives and procedures which improve processes to support and manage programmes and / or enhance the technical capability of junior team members through training and coaching.
Qualifications Required:
* A qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by experience
Experience Required:
* Experience of working closely with senior business managers & teams in a "business partner" capacity
* Experience of management of overhead and indirect costs
* Experience of longer term planning and projects.
* Experience of an ERP accounting system; experience of using Unit 4 (Agresso) would be an advantage
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