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Finance Business Partner

Robert Walters
Posted 17 hours ago, valid for 25 days
Location

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire AL86HA, England

Salary

£60,000 - £72,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Finance Business Partner position offers a salary of circa £55,000 plus bonus and is based in Welwyn Garden City.
  • Candidates must be qualified accountants (ACA/ACMA/ACCA) with relevant post-qualified experience to apply for this role.
  • The role involves providing high-quality financial analysis to support portfolio-level decision-making and developing strong relationships with internal and customer partners.
  • Successful applicants will need to possess good communication skills and a deep understanding of long-term contract accounting, including IFRS15 and Estimate at Completion processes.
  • The company, a leading defense organization, provides excellent career progression, training opportunities, and benefits such as hybrid working and generous pension contributions.

Finance Business Partner

Circa £55,000 plus bonus

Based in Welwyn Garden City

This role offers the chance to collaborate and gain visibility, providing high-quality financial analysis and information to support high-level decision making. This position requires the development of strong relationships with both internal and customer partners. You will have the opportunity to inspire change, challenge processes, and contribute significantly.

What you'll do:

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in providing high-quality financial analysis and information that supports decision-making at the portfolio level. Your ability to develop strong relationships with both internal and customer partners will be key in this role. You won't just be 'producing the numbers', but also articulating and presenting the key messages from the data to senior stakeholders. Your deep understanding of our programmes, along with the customer's priorities and challenges, will enable you to make significant contributions. There is an opportunity for you to inspire change, challenge processes, and bring about digitisation and modernisation in finance processes and reporting tools.

  • Provide high-quality financial analysis and information to support portfolio-level decision making
  • Develop strong relationships with both internal and customer partners
  • Articulate and present key messages from data to senior stakeholders
  • Contribute through developing a deep understanding of our programmes, and the customer's priorities and challenges
  • Inspire change and challenge our processes
  • Digitise and modernise finance processes and reporting tools

What you bring:

The ideal candidate for the Finance Business Partner role is a qualified accountant (ACA/ACMA/ACCA) with relevant post-qualified experience. You possess good communication skills which enable you to form effective working relationships across multi-functional teams. Your ability to interpret financial information allows you to communicate key messages concisely to senior stakeholders. You have detailed knowledge of long-term contract accounting including IFRS15 and Estimate at Completion (EAC) processes. Your experience in producing management reports, consolidating large datasets from multiple sources is highly valued. Commercial awareness, coupled with your ability to interpret contracts for financial analysis, is essential. You are familiar with finance systems and tools (e.g., SAP), MS Excel, and have experience using powerBI or similar tools.

  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to interpret and understand financial information
  • Qualified accountant (ACA/ACMA/ACCA) with relevant post qualified experience
  • Experience in production and ownership of management reporting
  • Commercial awareness and ability to interpret contracts for financial analysis
  • Knowledge of Finance systems and tools (e.g. SAP) and MS Excel
  • Experience using powerBI or other similar tools

What sets this company apart:

Our client is a leading defence organisation based in Hertfordshire. The salary is circa £55,000 and they offer a range of benefits including a company bonus, hybrid working, generous pension contributions, paid overtime, flexi leave, enhanced parental leave, and excellent site facilities. They also provide excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities.

What's next:

If you are a Fully Qualified Accountant with relevant experience and ready to take your career to the next level? Apply now!

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