Finance Business Partner - Spalding - £50 - 55k + bonus
Benjamin Edwards has an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join a thriving and growing business, the focus will be around operational and commercial finance, costings, capex and enhancing financial performance and providing pivot information to enable growth.
The role of the Finance Business Partner:
- Performance Reporting:
Deliver accurate and timely management information in line with weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles. Management information should be informative with commentary and insight and used to challenge performance and drive action to support the business in beating the budget.
- Business Partnering:
Provide commercial and procurement finance input and insight into the commercial and procurement teams for tender processes, service provision models, new business opportunities, price modelling, inflation recovery and other commercial/procurement appraisals. Provide operational finance input and insight into the operational and logistics team, working with them to deliver performance against agreed KPIs and targets. Work alongside other areas of the business to support and track the delivery of the profit improvement process.
- Ad hoc and project work:
Generate ad hoc information to support the analysis of business performance. Be involved and provide financial support on project work.
- Budget and forecasting:
Coordinate the generation of the commercial, purchasing, and operational elements of Budgets and Forecasts and review outputs with key stakeholders to ensure the numbers are realistic and deliverable.
- Costings:
Ensure the costing system is maintained, up to date and error free. Ensure key users are trained and supported in the use of the costing system.
- Month-end/Year end:
Contribute to an efficient and robust month-end process ensuring any differences to reported weekly flash numbers are understood and communicated. Sales and margin balance sheets are reconciled, understood and balances are justified.
The ideal candidate for the role of Finance Business Partner:
- ACCA / CIMA part-qualified or QBE.
- Excellent customer facing experience
- Strong communication skills at all levels.
- Competent on MS packages (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word)
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn and develop their knowledge, experience, and skills with the guidance of our client's highly experienced and knowledgeable Accounts team.
Benefits offered for the Finance Business Partner:
- 25 days annual leave
- Option to purchase up to 5 days annual leave each year
- Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Healthcare
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay Scheme
- Investment and support in personal learning and development
- Employee Assistance Programme