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I am delighted to be supporting an award-winning business seeking to recruit a Senior Finance Business Partner on a contract basis in a key role to support the monthly reporting cycle, and the forecasting and business planning processes, and to maintain and develop relationships with key internal stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include:
Support the month end process, to include:
- Ownership of a selection of business areas to include indirect cost of sales and overheads and where applicable, margin and analysis.
- Review and comparison to budget and expectation of actual performance, both in the month and year to date.
- Preparation and posting of journals which comply with internal controls - within the defined timeframe.
- Production of monthly financial performance packs for the defined areas, to present to budget holders and other key internal stakeholders.
- Approval of journals raised by direct report.
- Preparation of reporting data to flow into the group management accounts.
Support the annual budgeting and business plan update process, including:
- Guiding budget holders for the areas owned by this role, through the budget process to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Producing outputs that meet the requirements of budget holders.
- Delivering insight and analysis of budgets and business plans to ensure long-term trends are identified and communicated to stakeholders.
- Delivering all budget packs on time.
- Presentation / discussion of budget packs during the reporting cycle.
- Supporting / managing certain areas of costs at group level, to include below EBITDA budgeting.
- Supporting the Senior Finance Manager in delivering the group balance sheet model, group budget submission, and annual business valuation model process.
Support processes to deliver insight and analysis regarding key areas of business performance including:
- Monitoring KPIs, understanding any deviations from expectation and, where required, engaging other members of the Finance team and wider business, in identifying and implementing remedial actions.
- Supporting business engagement to ensure maximum value from business unit/department level relationships.
- Gathering information from the business as required, to provide to the Commercial finance / Corporate finance teams, to enhance the accuracy of reporting and to feed into models.
- Support monthly internal review procedures to understanding of business performance, including development of material and agenda for monthly Finance Review (Management Accounts) meetings.
- Support the Senior Finance Manager in the development of ad hoc models to support investment, business development and other corporate initiatives.
Support IT teams, project teams and external consultants as required to ensure integrity, development, and enhancement of financial accounting, reporting, and planning systems.
The successful candidate will be CIMA / ACCA / ACA qualified or part-qualified with experience of management accounting / business partnering and a proven track record in delivering results on time, and in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders. Plus, a competent user of excel with experience of reviewing and interpreting spreadsheets.
This role offers an excellent salary, benefits and bonus package, plus hybrid working.
For further information, please contact Laura Vatter.
