An established business near Swansea are recruiting now recruiting for a Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis.
The organisation provide crucial services to their customers and are active in the community. The company has a strong social conscience as well as developing a commercial awareness. The Finance Business Partner feeds into this by working with internal colleagues to provide financial insight and analysis.
Finance Business Partner job description
- Understand business objectives, strategies and risks and quantify the financial impacts of these.
- Use financial expertise to understand and communicate business performance monthly, through the analytical review of the month end and year to date results.
- Understanding the root cause of issues and working with colleagues to develop operational KPI's and action plans that deliver the required financial performance.
- Prepare the Annual Mid-Year Forecast analysis, manage the process to completion and sign off.
- Maintain an up to date understanding of financial performance and accurately forecast future cashflows.
- Understand and update strategic and operational risks as required, ensuring that potential financial risks are understood and quantified.
- Develop new analysis and insight to influence, support and improve decision making.
- Champion the consistent application of financial policies and procedures.
- Support the development of financial literacy of non-financial colleagues to assist in the understanding of financial performance.
Finance Business Partner person specification
- Professionally qualified Accountant.
- Able to build meaningful relationships and partnerships, based on mutual trust and accountability
- Excellent analytical skills with an eye for detail and understanding root cause, with a focus on the bigger picture, generating meaningful insights from trends and patterns in large data sets.
- Ability to think creatively when working with ambiguous or incomplete data to diagnose and solve complex problems, offering multiple solutions.
- Expertise in using Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI, with the ability to develop other in house systems to enable self-service of data collation, analysis and presentation to customers and colleagues.
An excellent opportunity for candidates with commercial experience and for those working in Accountancy Practice making their first move into 'Industry'.
As well as the salary there is a comprehensive benefits package that includes 27 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays, increasing after length of service), pension and flexible working arrangements.
Hybrid working, two days per week in the office.
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Bowen Eldridge Recruitment is acting as a Finance Recruitment Agency.