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Finance Business Partner

Four Recruitment Ltd
Posted 7 days ago, valid for 17 days
Location

Preston, Lancashire PR4 0AS, England

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The role focuses on supporting business leaders to achieve sustainable profitable growth through financial analysis and strategic decision-making.
  • Candidates should have ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualifications or equivalent accountancy experience, along with consultancy or professional services experience.
  • The position requires strong analytical skills and a proactive approach to drive operational performance and enhance planning tools.
  • The role also involves leading the annual budgeting process and developing key relationships with service line leadership.
  • The salary for this position is competitive, and candidates should have a minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience.

Opportunity

The purpose of this role is to support the business leaders to deliver sustainable profitable growth. You will develop strong, effective, and credible relationships with the business leaders, supporting their operational and strategic decision making by providing insightful financial analysis and analytical opinion. You will contribute to key decision making, using business partnering skills to both challenge and support, helping drive operational performance.

Role

  • Provide financial insight, challenge and support to the service line leadership and management teams.
  • Develop and manage key relationships with the service line leadership and management teams to assist in gaining a thorough understanding of the business.
  • Translate financial information (including KPIs and monthly management accounts) into analytical opinion by identifying and working with service line and local management to understand underlying trends and exceptions, whilst considering any wider impact of these moving forward.
  • Contribute in driving operational performance by promoting commercial thinking, understanding the key drivers of the business and how they effect overall performance and profitability. To benchmark this information across the service line and wider business to help recommend how best practice could be applied.
  • Take a leading role in the annual budgeting process, by working with the service line leadership and management teams to set a fair, but challenging budget that is line with the firm's budget theme.
  • Assume a lead role within the Commercial Finance team, working closely with colleagues to proactively drive improvement, enhancing the planning tools available and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate process/reporting.

Experience

  • ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified, or equivalent accountancy experience.
  • Consultancy/business strategy/professional services experience preferred.
  • Proven and strong analytical skills coupled with demonstrable experience in evaluation methodology and/or analysis of performance
  • Proactive, self-starter, tenacious and diplomatic; must be a completer/finisher

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.