Finance Business Partner
Employer Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (GB)
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience including bonus plus benefits
Closing date: 27 Feb 2025
Job Details:
As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll dive into reporting, budgeting and planning, offering tailored financial support and advice across a range of topics and business areas. Your insights and analysis will be key in evaluating performance and driving key decisions. A big part of your role will involve supporting business partners with initiatives, financial investments and in-store trials, using your analysis and insights to guide business actions.
You’ll manage the monthly management accounting and reporting processes for agreed cost centres, making sure that stakeholders are fully informed about their financial positions and projected outcomes, feeding into a group wide forecast process and highlighting variances, risks and opportunities.
Driving the annual budgeting process for relevant business functions will also form part of your day-to-day tasks, working collaboratively with cost centre owners and Business Directors to make sure they understand their budgets and help mitigate any risks or concerns. Plus, you’ll continually review and adapt KPI reports to ensure they remain relevant and useful.
Your analytical skills will shine as you assess the impact of new initiatives, technology, or efficiency measures in the UK & ROI stores. You’ll track trials, make sure results are understood and learnings are applied to future business cases. Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners is also important, as will providing helpful feedback and challenge to make sure we make the best decisions.
Minimum Requirements:
To be the best in this role, you need to be ACA qualified or newly qualified, and have a solid background in business partnering and knowledge of finance standards. Your excellent communication approach will help you engage and influence stakeholders at all levels. You’ll need to be able to tailor and translate complex financial information in a clear way, providing actionable insights for non-financial audiences. Strong Excel experience, a proactive approach and commercial awareness is a must.
Company:
Specsavers is a great British success story – a family-run retailer that is a familiar name on almost every high street in the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is to change lives through better sight and hearing. It’s why we exist, every day, all around the world.
We are a family run business that is driven by family values, and it is this culture that is the foundation that allows everything else to be possible. Joining us means joining an ambitious yet down to earth group of people who thrive at a high pace. You’ll be encouraged to unearth new skills, abilities, and opportunities, and push yourself like never before. We work hard but we have loads of fun along the way. We promise more than simply a job and a workplace, but a career and a team. And a career where you can truly make a difference.
Our Specsavers values make clear what it is we stand for. They help to guide our decision making. Our values have been integral to us for many years, and we’ve recently reviewed, refreshed and simplified them. At Specsavers we do the right thing, we care for one another and we deliver on our promises – this is what we stand for.
Our Finance team provides a high level of support to our stores and other areas of the business. When big decisions are being made elsewhere in the business, this team provides the financial insight. They’re experts in their field whether in Commercial Finance, Reporting, Shared Service or Tax and Treasury.
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