Sewell Wallis are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for a global Professional Services business in Sheffield. The role requires a strong communicator with evidenced experience partnering with senior management, with both a non-finance and financial background. You'll need to work with Management both within the UK and overseas, prioritising funding and offering insights and recommendations for budgets across your assigned Group division.
You will be a confident communicator, able to hold your own and challenge senior stakeholders where necessary. Ideally, you'll have a keen interest in international policies and be used to working with teams overseas.
As part of this role there will be international and UK travel (although not an absolute must if commitments prevent you from travelling), this will be a handful of trips across the year, all expenses paid and will range in locations globally depending on client needs.
This is a fantastic opportunity to get your foot in the door of a business that prioritises internal promotions, has a vast array of lateral and upward development opportunities, and really value and retain their staff.
What will you be doing?
- Serving as the key financial interface between the international group management and the Finance department.
- Proactively working with International Group Heads, their leadership teams to provide financial expertise and support, e.g. effective and regular presentations at partner meetings, identifying and leading initiatives to improve financial performance relating to profitability, working capital and financial efficiency.
- Support and lead the annual planning and budgeting process for the group and support the delivery and maintenance of group led strategic plans.
- Interpretation of monthly finance management information into insightful commentary, analysis, and articulation of required management actions.
- Monitoring performance against long-term strategic and short-term operational plans and assisting the management team to formulate the necessary actions to be taken to achieve agreed financial targets.
- Working on ad-hoc projects including financial modelling for required initiatives, such as lateral hires, promotions, practice area and geographic expansion.
What skills are we looking for?
- ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified with proven PQE experience.
- Finance Business Partnering experience with senior stakeholders (ideally within a professional services business).
- Confident with presentations to large audiences both face to face and digitally.
- Able to manage stakeholders during times of conflicting deliverables and proven experience of delivering on simultaneous tasks.
- Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills.
- Ability to flex working style to collaborate across functions and geographies and adapt to change.
- Gravitas to influence or challenge senior stakeholders when necessary and to gain respect as a trusted advisor.
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary of up to £70,000
- Annual performance based bonus
- Hybrid working, flexible start and finish times
- 6% pension
- Private medical Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Sick pay
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- 28 days of annual leave with bank holidays on top
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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.