Senior Finance Business Partner - £60-70k - Manchester Victoria
In this role, you will operate as senior support to the CFO, working closely with the business to support key stakeholders and provide them with the information to make strategic decisions, communicating risks and opportunities.
Duties;
- Implement and support divisional strategy.
- Develop a strategic partnership with the Divisional Finance Director as a trusted advisor.
- Drive Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) outputs, including business plans, project, and investment appraisals using divisional data.
- Identify, highlight, and investigate areas of opportunity for strategic recommendations.
- Provide divisional reporting and analytics.
- Contribute to the development and management of divisional strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts.
- Perform variance analysis on financial performance against the divisional plan.
- Utilise business insights, scenario modelling, and analysis to develop financial models and drive commercial decision-making and complex problem-solving.
- Ensure divisional compliance and financial control.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards and internal policies and procedures.
- Prepare accurate and timely financial statements and reports.
- Maintain a robust control environment within divisional finance, adhering to internal controls and regulatory requirements.
- Support continuous improvement within the Group.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing financial processes.
- Monitor macro-economic developments and assess their impacts on the business.
- Focus on increasing analytics capabilities, including new initiatives to analyse data.
- Collaborate with other teams.
Experience;
- 3+ years of FP&A or finance business partnering experience.
- Professional certified qualification (CFA/CPA/CA/AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent).
- Strong English language skills.
- Expert knowledge in business analysis, analysing large data sets, and information management.
- Experience in data modelling and simplifying complex data into compelling, clear, and actionable insights using Excel and reporting tools.
- Working knowledge of core finance systems, ERP, and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality.
- Strong understanding of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant FBP activities.
- Strong digital literacy with financial analysis and modelling skills.
- Commercial mindset with an ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to lead by example, and hold teams, customers, and partners to account.
Senior Finance Business Partner - £60-70k - Manchester Victoria