Finance Business Partner
York, North Yorkshire YO1
£60,000 - £65,000 per annum
Full time Permanent role
Hybrid working 3 days working from home
Commutable from Selby, Harrogate, Wetherby, Leeds, Malton, North Yorkshire, or West Yorkshire
Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are recruiting for a experienced Commercial Finance Business Partner to join a company based in York, North Yorkshire.
The Role
The role of Commercial Business Partner will primarily partner the Chief Commercial Officer and team. They will drive business engagement and crucially, provide robust insight into revenue and cost of sale performance, advancing understanding, lessening risk, and equipping the business to improve performance and profitability. They will lead forecasting and budget cycles, providing valuable insight and modelling, with high quality presentation. They will also work closely with the commercial team on new business opportunities and where appropriate, M&A opportunities. Reporting to the FP&A Lead, they will be an enthusiastic self-starter, comfortable with change and challenge, willing to ‘get their hands dirty', and a thoughtful team player.
Duties
- Business Partner the Chief Commercial Officer and team to provide support and understanding of business performance to drive decision making, including provision of timely, accurate and relevant reporting on a weekly/monthly basis
- Establish robust working relationships with key stakeholders. Become the key finance contact for your areas of responsibility, establishing yourself as a critical and trusted member of their management tea
- Own and develop revenue and CoS recognition methodologies, advancing accuracy and reporting. Become deeply familiar with the complexities of revenue by key client, and CoS detail, such that you are the go-to ‘expert' on these matters.
- Prepare accurate and detailed budgets, forecasts, rolling forecasts and 3-year strategic plans in line with business deadlines, supporting the process with clear communication and high quality output
- Support the development of KPI reporting, enhancing both existing reporting and identifying new relevant KPIs
- Champion continuous improvement and standardisation of processes, including implementation of best practices and automation initiatives, collaborating with technology teams
- Ad hoc analysis and project involvement as required
- Actively support the management accounts team, sharing knowledge and insights to enable commercial understanding across the teams
The Person
- An engaging and ambitious team player with a strong values set, an excellent work ethic and the ability to influence others
- Experience working in a rapidly changing environment
- Comfortable working autonomously, with a track record of delivering in challenging situations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to develop good relationships across the business
- Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with 3+ years PQE and experience of budgeting, forecasting and KPI production
- Confident IT user with advanced Excel skills able to manage large and complex data sets and an ability to pick up new IT systems quickly
- Excellent analytical skills, with ability to identify trends in data and share these with both financial and non-financial users
Benefits
- 26 days holiday with an option to purchase more through our holiday purchase scheme. Plus bank holidays on top.
- When you need support, we rely on our excellent Employee assistance program to help you with your wellbeing.
- A private company pension enabling you to keep one eye on the future.
- Your development is critical to our success so giving you access to Continuous Professional Development is always available to you.
- A very useful cash plan to help with those unexpected health issues such as dentist, eye wear or prescriptions and much more.
- Rewards gateway giving you access to an endless list of little perks and savings with retailers.
- Many of our teams are happy to work in a hybrid working pattern so we provide a technology package to keep you connected
- Learning new skills is important so accessing our platform will engage your enquiring mind.
If you would like to apply for the role of Finance Business Partner then please email your CV to or call Deb on
Closing date is 16.10.2024 Please note this could change subject to suitable applications.
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Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are committed to the selection, recruitment and development of the best people, basing judgements solely on suitability for the job. Whilst we endeavour to respond to all applications individually, due to high volumes, this is not always possible. Thank you for your interest in this role and we look forward to working with you in the future