Senior Finance Business Partner

SRM are recruiting a Senior Finance Business Partner ( ACCA / ACA / CIMA) role for a household name in Bury St Edmunds. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager to support the budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes and monthly reporting cycle, and to maintain and develop relationships with key internal stakeholders

Month End Reporting

• Support the month end process, to include:
• Ownership of a selection of Business areas / cost centres, to include indirect cost of sales and overheads and where applicable, margin and per project 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 our 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.
• Presentation of monthly reporting packs 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 and Budget Committee pack.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning:

• 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 Senior Management and 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 to Executive team during the reporting cycle.
• Supporting / managing certain areas of costs at group level, to include below EBITDA budgeting.
• Supporting the Finance Manager - FP&A, in delivering the group balance sheet model, group budget submission, and annual business valuation model process.

Insight & Analysis

• 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 enhance Senior Management understanding of business performance, including development of material and agenda for monthly Budget Committee meetings.
• Support the Finance Manager - FP&A, in the development of ad hoc models to support investment, business development and other corporate initiatives.

Systems Development

· Support IT teams, project teams and external consultants as required to ensure integrity, development, and enhancement of financial accounting, reporting, and planning systems.

Candidate Profile:

• Qualified accountant with relevant post qualification experience

• Experience of Management Accounting and Business Partnering

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively at all levels

• Have a pro-active approach to identifying and resolving problems

• Strong Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables etc)