Senior Finance Business Partner
Hertfordshire (Hybrid)
Circa £70,000 + Bonus
This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercial astute and technically sound Qualified Accountant to take full P&L accountability for a growing division of this highly regarded and market leading employer of choice that offers excellent career trajectory.
The role offers a rare opportunity to make a real difference to the performance and profitability of this highly successful division as the Key Finance Business Partner to a number of Senior Operational Directors. Unlike many traditional Finance Business partnering roles you will be an integral partner to the leadership team making a tangible input into the operational and strategic direction of the business.
You will likely be a Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) on an upward trajectory with post qualified experience within a Commercial / Analytical / FP&A finance role - likely a Financial Analyst, Commercial Accountant, Commercial Financial Analyst, Finance Business Partner, FP&A Accountant, Management Accountant, FP&A Analyst or similar.
As a qualified Accountant you will have a sound understanding of financial reporting and accounting principles which can be coupled with a strong analytical and commercial mindset / skill set to act as a true Finance Business Partner to your non-finance colleagues.
Naturally you will be able to manipulate and analyse large data sets and tell the story behind the numbers translating your insight into clear, understandable actionable operational insight to drive performance.
Role In Detail:
* Partner with Operations Directors and management teams to guide financial decisions.
* Provide insightful financial analysis, strategic guidance and actionable recommendations to the business.
* Review, analyse and understand the end-to-end financials (Full P&L) for the division, alongside all relevant KPIs and other metrics, in order to be a dependable source of information so that the business can properly understand its performance.
* Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop annual budgets and align the financial planning with the overall business strategy
* Develop and monitor budgets, ensuring alignment with business goals.
* Analyse financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities.
* Deliver insights during weekly and monthly reviews, supporting strategic initiatives.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce performance reports.
* Support financial and strategic initiatives, translating metrics into meaningful KPIs.
* Present insights to senior management, influencing key business strategies.
* Act on the insights gained to provide guidance and input into decision making, framing financial metrics in a way that all levels of the business and differing stakeholders understand and can base informed decisions.
* Understand the fundamentals of the financial statements, including operations, finance processes, systems & data in order to be able to know how to interrogate data (working collaboratively with other teams) in order to solve problems and measure performance
* Attend meetings, host weekly and monthly business reviews and present periodically on your respective business area, providing the necessary insight in order for the business understand the risks & opportunities of meeting financial and other targets and the financial implications of other decisions
* Collaborate with other finance teams and the BI team to develop a suite of regular reports that are adopted as universal by the business and used to understand business performance
* Where required, provide financial expertise in strategic and other initiatives, such as identifying working capital implications within a particular initiative and an ability to translate commercial or operational metrics into reportable & measurable financial metrics that align with KPIs and targets.
* Identifying value-creating opportunities across finance and operations, partnering with the business to develop ideas into actionable recommendations
* Providing financial support and advice to programmes (e.g. working capital, finance process improvements, procurement)
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