Finance Business Partner
This role involves providing comprehensive financial analysis and strategic guidance to internal operations. As a crucial member of the team, you will collaborate closely with operations, Operations Directors, and wider management, contributing to decision-making processes with your expertise in risk intelligence and financial proficiency.
The role is hybrid, with an expectation of 3-4 days per week at our Head Office in Hemel Hempstead and occasional on-site visits.
Duties
- Working with the BI and Procurement teams to interrogate non-financial datasets (e.g. procurement of direct goods through the central procurement system) to properly improve analysis of margins
- Establishing reviews, analysis and understanding of the end-to-end financials of operations, alongside all relevant KPIs and other metrics, to be a dependable source of information so that the business can properly understand performance
- Acting on the insights gained to provide guidance and input into decision making, framing financial metrics in a way that all levels of the business and differing stakeholders understand and can base informed decisions off
- Appropriately challenging the business to ensure a risk-intelligent culture and identify issues as they arise
- Understanding the fundamentals of financial statements, including operations, finance processes, systems & data to be able to know how to interrogate data (working collaboratively with other teams), with a view to solve problems and measure performance
- Attending meetings, hosting weekly and monthly business reviews and presenting periodically on your respective business area, providing the necessary insight for the business understand the risks & opportunities of meeting financial and other targets and the financial implications of other decisions
- Collaborating with key stakeholders to develop annual budgets and align the financial planning with the overall business strategy
- Continuously monitoring financial performance against budgets and forecasts, at venue level and overall P&L
- Collaborating with other finance teams and the BI team to develop a suite of regular reports that are adopted as universal by the business and used to understand business performance
- Where required, providing financial expertise in strategic and other initiatives, such as identifying Tax or working capital implications within a particular initiative and an ability to translate commercial or operational metrics into reportable & measurable financial metrics that align with KPIs and targets.
- Identifying any potential finance risks or opportunities, work with key stakeholder to mitigate or maximise opportunities
- Inputting into periodic reporting and attend business meetings etc. to meet various stakeholder requirements and provide insight to wider senior management
Requirements
- Strong accounting principles knowledge
- Analytical skills for assessing financial impacts of operations
- Proficient in financial reporting, tax, and compliance
- Effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills for complex financial information
- Ability to translate financial analysis into understandable narratives
- Experience with data analysis tools
- Strong time management for meeting deadlines
- Aptitude for identifying value-creating opportunities
- Professional Accounting/Finance qualification
- Demonstrated cross-functional teamwork
- Leadership qualities for driving financial initiatives
- Experience in strategic financial planning aligned with objectives
- Proactive approach to driving business agenda
- Commitment to integrity and ethical financial practices
- Leadership in ensuring team compliance with financial regulations
Due to the anticipated high volume of applications for this advertisement, it is with regret that we may only be able to contact those applicants successful in being shortlisted. However, your application for this or any further roles, may mean that we are able to contact you when additional vacancies become available. Should you not want this to be the case, please feel free to contact us directly to ensure we are aware of your wishes.
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