Senior Finance Business Partner

Oversee and influence the commercial performance of the largest division of a household-brand company.

Client Details

Keeping 14 million members safe and on the move, this well-respected company continues to go from strength to strength. Now with additional PE funding, their ambitious growth plans are taking real momentum, meaning there has never been a better time to get on-board with this company and develop your career alongside their trajectory.

Description

* Accountable for integrity of financial forecasts and reporting (including but not limited to; P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow, Cost to Serve)

* Business Partner with Commercial team to challenge and drive cost savings

* Stock management via PowerBI reporting tool

* Responsible for Commercial (and KeyCare) month end reporting

* Develop full understanding of various financial modelling undertaken to be able to drive improvements, remediate potential issues and immediately highlight and risks or opportunities within the business

* Act as a deputy where required to the Head of Finance in reporting and understanding overall the finance view for Operations.

* Full understanding of underlying assumptions within modelling supporting the update of these and allowing continued full use across commercial finance and wider business teams. Ensure project benefits/costs are embedded in the overall cost forecast.

* Own the financial forecast models for Operations, making continual improvements to drive increased accuracy and efficiency of the models.

* Ownership of the weekly performance reporting, ensuring financial performance is clearly explained and linked to KPI performance

* Work across the Operations finance team to develop and improve reporting

* Drive the improvement of Operations reporting, forecasting and MI to provide both accurate and timely financial information, giving transparency and insight into business performance.

* Mentor and lead junior team members to drive forward change and meet the collective team deliverables

* Produce the monthly business review packs for Operations, for director and exec review meetings, including detailed commentary over cash, balance sheet and EBITDA performance, with all variances explained and understood - working with the finance business partners to ensure a representative picture of performance is communicated

* Ad-hoc projects and involvement to support the wider Finance team.

* Responsible for building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.

Profile

Capability, Knowledge and Experience:

· Proven experience working in a Senior Finance role in a large complex organisation with experience of driving change

· Gravitas to challenge operational management to ensure cost efficiency whilst customer service levels are maintained or improved

· A confident self-starter, with a hands-on approach and the ability to operate within a dynamic environment

· Ability to challenge the norm, spot trends, to enable challenge into Operational performance

· Strong communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and ensuring complex scenarios are fully understood

· Strong analytical skills, including structured problem solving, diagnostics, modelling, business analysis

· Ability to interpret large datasets to produce succinct insight and driver analysis

· Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work well in a team environment

· Strong motivational skills with the ability to work using your own initiative to tight time scales

· Manage to tight timeframes and manage the time scales of other stakeholders to ensure that activity is focused

· Commercial acumen and a proactive, 'results orientated' approach

· Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to prioritise and deliver under tight or conflicting deadlines

· Accurate, thorough and reliable

· Excellent Microsoft Excel/Office skills

· Experience of Sap/BPC preferable

· Ideally, some experience of R & SQL

Education and Qualifications:

· Graduate level education

· Recognised accountancy qualification

Personal Characteristics:

· Gravitas to be able to engage with and build strong working relationships with the Operations Management team.

· Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to prioritise manage and deliver under tight or conflicting deadlines

· An innate curiosity & desire to understand and challenge

· Financially numerate with excellent attention to detail and accuracy

· Enthusiastic & ambitious

Job Offer

Generous salary of £70,000 and £5,340 car allowance, 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, Good matched Pension and company related benefits