Commercial Finance Business Partner
- Recruiter
- KennedyPearce Consulting
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £480 - £500 per day
- Posted
- 08 Dec 2016
- Closes
- 15 Dec 2016
- Ref
- SY-BP3-289399
- Contact
- Sacha Young
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
I am currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner for a retail business based in Central London. You must be immediately available or on 1 weeks notice.
Responsibilities:
- Manage existing team to enhance the existing reporting and month end process on a £100m budget.
- Implement processes with workstreams and PMO leads to enable effective forecasting.
- Manage the production of monthly and ad-hoc reporting to the Integration Committee (consisting of c-suite employees)
- Ensure all financial data is correctly recorded on the Finance system and ledgers by liaising with the relevant Heads of finance within the business.
- Pro-actively challenge cost bases and reduce where possible.
- Understand, challenge and resolve the classification of costs as integration or BAU. This will include appropriate classification in to capital or operating costs.
- To identify and resolve any financial issues with the Project Managers and/or Project Directors. To pro-actively suggest new ways of working and solutions to problems where appropriate.
- To act as the first point of contact for project finance issues with respect to each of the integration workstreams.
- Manage regular project expenditure re-forecasts in conjunction with project managers and review these with senior staff as appropriate.
- Other financial tasks as directed by the Finance Director - Integration.
Skills:
- Ideally be a qualified accountant (Big 4 ACA with first time passes preferred).
- Must have experience of managing finance for a multi-million pound project.
- Must have worked on an integration programme or a programme with similar complexity and size previously
- Must have a track record of successful managing a wide set of senior stakeholders including a team of qualified accountants/PM's
- Must be an excellent communicator with strong relationship building skills
- Excellent IT skills with experience of operating Oracle.
For immediate consideration please email Sacha Young via the application portal.