Finance Business Partner

Badenoch & Clark are currently working with a leading FTSE 250 organisation based in Surrey to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis. Reporting into the Head of Finance Business Partnering this role has a particular focus on supporting the head office functions.

This role is ideally suited to someone who has recently completed an accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) and who is looking for the next step in their career. The company has a reputation for developing staff and the successful candidate will have the drive and passion to want to further their career in an FBP / commercial finance role.

Key responsibilities include:
*Lead the production and consolidation of the detailed annual budgets/plans and monthly reforecasts predominantly for the Head Office functions, with a focus on expenses.
*Develop analysis to support plans and which demonstrate a sufficient level of challenge, including scenario and what-if analysis.
*Responsible for month end reporting output from the team, with support from junior analysts.
*Proactively seek to understand the key drivers of the result and measure overall performance against plan. Act as Finance lead to Heads of Departments, to explain and react to variance analysis and MI.
*Responsible for producing ad-hoc analysis to meet evolving business requirements. Participate in the decision making process in the evaluation of performance and the impact of different initiatives.
*Responsible for coordination with the Corporate Planning Team to feed assumptions into the overall Group budgets/plans and provide requested analysis and commentary for presentation to the Group Board.
*Manage key inputs into the Financial Reporting Team for associated activities including monthly accruals and provisions, reconciliations, and preparation of monthly reports.

Skills / background

*Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
*Have a strong academic background (2:1 / 1st class degree is preferred)
*Excellent communication skills with the ability to confidently challenge and influence senior management
*Good systems skills (Excel & Powerpoint)
*The desire to want to progress in a forward thinking / fast moving organisation


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