Senior Finance Business Partner

Location:
Birmingham
Job Type:
Permanent
Industry:
Digital Workspace
Job reference:
BBBH232648_1722247210
Posted:
9 months ago

Senior Finance Business Partner

Location - Birmingham/hybrid

Salary - £90,000 - £100,000 + Excellent benefits/bonus

Role purpose:

This role will be the finance business partner for Corporate Functions as well as Transformation teams and be a key member of the corporate finance team working to assist the business to drive profitable growth. This role will be critica...

Senior Finance Business Partner

Location - Birmingham/hybrid

Salary - £90,000 - £100,000 + Excellent benefits/bonus

Role purpose:

This role will be the finance business partner for Corporate Functions as well as Transformation teams and be a key member of the corporate finance team working to assist the business to drive profitable growth. This role will be critical in ensuring the business meets its strategic objectives through evaluating and monitoring investment proposals, tracking and analysing ongoing investments and projects as we all as supporting and challenging BAU corporate / functional spend.

Responsible for providing finance expertise and advice to the businesses to a broad range of senior stakeholders, supporting decision-making and driving performance across around £80m of annual expenditure. This will require working with other functions to build strong relationships and promoting a cross team culture to ensure excellent business insight is built into core reporting. The ability to build strong relationships with other functions and promote a collaborative, cross team culture will be critical for success.

Key Responsibilities:
Develop, enhance and provide "hands-on" finance business partnering across the Transformation Management Office (TMO) and corporate functions including Technology, Marketing, HR and Finance.
  • Provide constructive input into strategic business planning and commercial decision, such as prioritizing technology investments, allocating resources, identifying new partnerships, determining optimal staffing levels and expanding into new services or geographical locations.
  • Providing strategic recommendations to enhance financial performance and new business opportunities
  • Understand the competitor and regulatory markets to identify external risks and realise opportunities.
  • Pro-actively support risk management, change and strategy processes.
Lead and coordinate the budget and forecasting process across the TMO and Corporate functions. Create reliable full year outlooks and risk/opportunity assessments. Support quarterly ExCo reviews.
Prepare monthly consolidated reviews of theactuals, providing explanation of variances and remediation actions where necessary, taking accountability for month end closing and correct monthly reporting ofactuals, working closely with back office finance teams.
  • Lead monthly reviews with the different areas providing challenge and support to Management
  • Co-ordinate the annual review of the 5-year business plans
  • Accountability for the P&L and balance sheet reported, gaining assurance on its accuracy from the Business Controllers
  • Ensure robust financial control with focus on financial and management accounting, working capital, cash flow, cost control and investment appraisal. Where control is managed in a different team, the FBP needs to gain assurance that controls are effective
Manage the finance governance and reporting for transformation programmes and corporate financials, delivering "investor ready" month end reporting and analysis to the TMO management team, EXCO and shareholders as required.
Support development of good quality management information to ensure excellent business insight is built into core reporting, addressing root cause data and process issues where relevant and optimising use of financial data from different core systems. Output should be "investor ready" management reporting,
Work with senior stakeholders across the business, ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and that the expected benefits are realised. Transparent reporting and governance and effective guidance and communication will be key to ensure a strong and common understanding and ownership of results.
Ensure the impact of value creation initiatives feed into business unit performance - working with FP&A and Business Unit FBPs to ensure benefits are realised in the BU P&Ls.
Develop financial models and analysis to support and challenge the strategic initiatives under the TMO and corporate areas, including scenario planning, sensitivity analysis and stress testing business cases for investments and change projects.
Interpret financial benefits of business cases and understand the impact of not taking particular actions. Identify areas for improvement and proactively implement solutions.
Key health & safety responsibilities:
Eliminate or minimise employee exposure to risks by regularly reviewing the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessments, and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all business activities.
Monitor and review health and safety performance, observe safety behaviours in the workplace, taking appropriate corrective and preventative action as necessary and suggesting and implementing improvement activities.

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