Finance Business Partner - Lincoln - up to £55k & bonus & study support if required
Benjamin Edwards are exclusively recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for a successful and thriving business in the heart of Lincolnshire. This is an opportunity to join a great team with big plans. As Finance Business Partner, you will have a passion for finance and business partnering, possessing a proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities with senior leaders. Strong commercial and financial awareness are paramount, offering the individual a chance to make a real difference.
What's on offer to the Finance Business Partner
- Bonus
- Early half day finish
- Enhanced employer pension contributions and pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Life assurance policies
- Employee benefits platform with discounts at major retailers
- Free on-site parking
The role of the Finance Business Partner
- Providing financial insight to stakeholders to support with continuous improvement initiatives and control of internal costs
- Monthly generation of prices to support open book relationship with key customers
- Review of raw material across all sources of supply and explanation of movements
- Forward forecasting of pricing with clear justification of price movements
- Alongside the planning department review potential new SKUs and challenge assumptions where necessary
- Cost all SKUs and present costing outcome to key personnel within the business
- Work alongside the Commercial and Planning departments to build assumptions to include within tender costings
- Create and communicate financial business case models to highlight tender impacts to the business
- Produce and review forecasts regularly, challenging and highlighting any variances, ensuring regular communication to the business
- Support site managers and senior management in completion of budgets for direct costs and challenge where necessary
- Generation of budget models and individual SKU level detail
- Provide narrative of key assumptions in the annual budget to offer context in the detailed budgeted packs provided to the business
- General ledger account postings (accruals, prepayments)
- Stock management
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Support on annual audit at year end
The ideal candidate for the role of Finance Business Partner
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified/part qualified or QBE
- Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner
- Proficient in Excel