We are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a dynamic team based out of either Crawley or Worthing.
Our finance team are an integral part of our decision-making process and are responsible for analysing risks, providing relevant insight, and formulating strategies to drive performance, as well as ensuring we meet all our obligations as a responsible organisation around reporting and financial transactions.
As a member of the Finance team, the finance business partner will be integral in delivering financial insight and analysis to the business. This position will report into the Finance Director and will be responsible for providing high quality analysis and MI to support in key decision making.
This role will utilise a mixture of business knowledge, technical accounting understanding and excellent modelling skills to help our organisation meet its objectives. The role will be heavily focussed on providing finance support and commercial partnering to the business.
This is a full-time role, and you would be required to work on a hybrid basis from either our Worthing or Crawley office 2-3 days per week. The contract is 6 months initially via an umbrella company and is deemed as inside IR35.
What you'll be doing:
- Providing support to the P&E Finance Business Partner and Finance Director.
- First point of contact for queries from the assigned business areas.
- Completing the month end process; reviewing, analysing, and commentating on performance.
- Completing with the forecasting process, including P&L, headcount, balance sheet and capex.
- Pro-active approach to assessing trends and risks within the core activities.
- Supporting the business through the annual budget setting exercise.
- Undertake ad-hoc tasks and projects as required.
What we're looking for in a Finance Business Partner:
- Fully qualified accountant through either the ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA.
- Self-motivated with proven analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
- Has demonstrated high levels of personal accountability and flexibility to meet deadlines.
- Proven experience of delivering results over a sustained period in a challenging environment.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Can interpret financial information to identify drivers impacting business performance.
- Demonstrates excellent relationship building, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Prior experience and knowledge of accounting processes.
- Knowledge of financial reporting systems (Workday and Adaptive Planning desirable).
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