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Finance Business Partner - DDAT
Hybrid - Hook
Full Time, Permanent
£60,000 - £70,000 per annum
Join Serco as a Finance Business Partner and be at the forefront of driving profitable and sustainable growth across our diverse services. In this dynamic role, you'll provide essential commercial and financial decision support, perfectly aligned with our strategic and customer priorities. You'll collaborate with a portfolio of businesses, challenging assumptions, influencing key decisions, and recommending innovative efficiency improvements. Your contributions will be vital in winning good business and enhancing shareholder value, ensuring Serco's continuous growth and success.
Serco is a global leader in delivering essential public services across sectors such as defence, health, transport, and justice. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, we provide rewarding career opportunities where you can make a real impact. In this role of Finance Business Partner for the Technology Internal Shared Service, you’ll have the chance to shape financial strategies that drive growth and profitability. You’ll be responsible for monthly reporting for growth and +Impact, delivering financial and commercial support to organic growth opportunities. Serco offers a dynamic, collaborative environment with a focus on professional development, where your contributions are valued, and your career can thrive.
Main responsibilities of the role:
* Act as a trusted, visible, and accessible point of contact to business leaders; support the delivery of commercial and financial decision support to drive future performance.
* Understand the customer landscape and their drivers to provide contract / service pricing, cash, and margin optimisation recommendations, ensuring an acceptable balance of risk and return.
* Provide business knowledge and interface with the Centre of Excellence to enable their production of accurate financial records, compliance, business financial plans and forecasts.
* Accountable for the accuracy of financial records, compliance, business financial plans and forecasts that are produced by the Centre of Excellence.
* Understand the value drivers of the business and provide guidance on contract / service performance including ROI, scenario planning, KPI analysis and benchmarking.
* Provide challenge and decision support for new business, drawing upon the Pricing and Deal Architecture and Legal teams, as appropriate.
* Develop customer relationships to support successful commercial and financial negotiations regarding variable revenue, rebids and change notices.
* Support business leaders to deliver contractual obligations through identification of over and under delivery, performing root cause analysis, and making recommendations.
* Support contract / service cost optimisation projects through profitability analysis and efficiency recommendations.
* Proactive identification, assessment, and management of financial and commercial risks.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders through the sharing of knowledge and collaboration.
* Champion working as part of a virtual team with the business, Centre of Excellence and Group Finance to embed and sustain the Finance Operating Model.
What you’ll need:
* You’ll be either a Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant (either ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with relevant experience.
* Advanced Excel skills.
* Capable of adding value in a commercially orientated bidding and contracting environment.
* Able to highlight problems, offer practical solutions, and support their execution.
* Commercial acumen, as well as experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business value drivers.
* Experience in influencing senior stakeholders and driving decision-making processes.
* Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex environment.
* Strong relationship-building skills, both internally and externally.
* Willingness to travel occasionally within the UK.
What we offer:
* Company car.
* Bonus scheme – 5% on target, 10% exceeding targets.
* Private healthcare.
* Life assurance.
* Up to 6% contributory pension.
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Annual leave purchase scheme.
* A Serco benefits portal offering a wide range of discounts for major high street brands in Retail, Leisure & Hospitality.
* A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Health Cash Plans, free flu jabs and more.
* A wealth of career development training to suit your future aspirations. These range from role specific training, leadership coaching, formal study and much more to support you to build your career with Serco.
* A safe and supportive culture.
* A company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.