Finance Business Partner
- Recruiter
- Homeserve
- Location
- West Midlands
- Salary
- £60k + Benefits
- Posted
- 10 Sep 2014
- Closes
- 08 Oct 2014
- Contact
- Nirmal Mistry
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Title: Finance Business Partner
Salary: £60k + Benefits
Location: West Midlands
Robert Walters is excited to be recruiting a Business Partner on behalf of HomeServe (HML), a leading force in the home emergency repairs market.
As a FTSE listed business, HomeServe continues to undergo an exciting period of growth and has expanded internationally into the US, France, Spain and is exploring growth markets in Italy and Germany. To meet their vision of being the first place to turn for home emergencies and repairs, HomeServe is supported by a world class finance function.
They are looking for a qualified accountant to join their innovative and growing team based in Walsall. Partnering with teams across the business, you will drive business performance improvement across all the key metrics for the business area.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious accountant who will relish a challenging and varied role, and who is not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Main Responsibilities
- Be the expert for the performance of the marketing renewals activity and the key person the business looks to for commercial information and appropriate MI
- Produce a suite of reports that will support the performance of the business and clearly explain the performance of the Marketing function
- Working with internal partners to drive profitable solutions and improvements to new and existing products and processes
- Maintain and develop key relationships with the marketing areas of the business and the other parts of the business as required from time to time
- Perform sound commercial analysis based upon key KPIs
- Develop, monitor and review trends in performance to ensure the business continues to make the right decisions
- Ensuring that the Forecast is produced each month, with appropriate tracking to actual and MI, and reporting variances as appropriate
- Responsible for ensuring that the Annual Budget is produced
- Not afraid to challenge the ‘status quo’ across all areas of the business
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Qualified accountant
- Strong commercial finance experience, in a similar fast paced environment, with the ability to communicate at all levels.
- Proven ability to work in cross functional teams. Is able to proactively challenge, influence and gain alignment.
- Knowledge of Oracle and Hyperion or similar and ability to learn new systems
Desirable
- Degree level educated
- Understanding of Cognos planning
- Experience on working in a FCA regulated business
- Experience of working in a service related environment
This is an excellent opportunity to join HomeServe during this exciting period of growth. The role offers a unique opportunity to improve and develop the future development of the finance function, and is a fantastic opportunity for the successful applicant to build their business partnering skills
You will be rewarded with an excellent base salary and an outstanding benefits package, including a competitive pension.