Opportunity
The purpose of this role is to support the business leaders to deliver sustainable profitable growth. You will develop strong, effective, and credible relationships with the business leaders, supporting their operational and strategic decision making by providing insightful financial analysis and analytical opinion. You will contribute to key decision making, using business partnering skills to both challenge and support, helping drive operational performance.
Role
Provide financial insight, challenge and support to the service line leadership and management teams.
Develop and manage key relationships with the service line leadership and management teams to assist in gaining a thorough understanding of the business.
Translate financial information (including KPIs and monthly management accounts) into analytical opinion by identifying and working with service line and local management to understand underlying trends and exceptions, whilst considering any wider impact of these moving forward.
Contribute in driving operational performance by promoting commercial thinking, understanding the key drivers of the business and how they effect overall performance and profitability. To benchmark this information across the service line and wider business to help recommend how best practice could be applied.
Take a leading role in the annual budgeting process, by working with the service line leadership and management teams to set a fair, but challenging budget that is line with the firm's budget theme.
Assume a lead role within the Commercial Finance team, working closely with colleagues to proactively drive improvement, enhancing the planning tools available and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate process/reporting.
Experience
ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified, or equivalent accountancy experience.
Consultancy/business strategy/professional services experience preferred.
Proven and strong analytical skills coupled with demonstrable experience in evaluation methodology and/or analysis of performance
Proactive, self-starter, tenacious and diplomatic; must be a completer/finisher
If you interested in applying for this role please submit your CV or call Phil on 01204 326444 or 07984 199519
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