Finance Business Partner

About Capita

We are part of Capita plc, the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions. With 75,000 staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India this is an exciting prospect for anyone looking to join Capita as it opens many doors in terms of progression opportunities in a range of sectors

We are seeking a highly visible Finance Business Partner for our finance team based in Bury. This is a newly created role with key business partnering duties working with operations, responsible for net profit reporting and analysis of reported performance against expectations. We are looking for someone who enjoys working with service teams to get under the numbers to influence business performance. The role combines strategic thinking with hands on activity

Reporting to the Finance Manager.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Operations Team to support the monthly forecasting cycle, highlighting any potential operational risks and opportunities.
• Produce accurate and timely reporting for the contract on a monthly basis.
• Ensure accurate representation of monthly P&L performance, posting all required ledger entries, reviewing the ledger to understand costs and supporting your transactions with appropriate reconciliations.
• Review reported performance against targets, challenge operations to produce and deliver action plans to improve the performance and ensure everyone understands and is able to explain the key drivers of variances.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships across the business to influence financial performance and understand the contract, price and cost drivers and challenge assumptions where necessary.
• Review forecast against Business Plan and previous forecast targets, and ensure key drivers of variances are clearly understood.
• Produce accurate working capital forecasts, working to minimise working capital through accurate & timely billing to our client, and ensure query resolution on a timely basis.
• Deliver monthly scheduled and ad-hoc reporting to tight deadlines.
• Work with finance, operational and transformation teams to streamlining existing processes, designing new reports and processes where necessary.

Key Performance Measures

• Accuracy of monthly P&L and financial forecasts.
• Relevant areas of MI / business plans / reforecast prepared in accordance with guidelines.
• Production of analysis / trends / risk & opportunity schedules with recommended actions.
• Any key issues highlighted.
• Accuracy & timeliness of key responsibilities.
• Working Capital kept to a minimum.
• Ability to use own judgement and initiative to anticipate and investigate queries.

Skills & Experience:

• Recently or part qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent experience
• Previous experience in accounting role (industry or practice)
• Diligent, attention to detail, willing to challenge
• Excellent MS Excel skills
• Experience of Business & Reporting systems (SAP desirable)
• Able to act on own initiative
• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise effectively to meet tight reporting deadlines.
• Good at communicating at all levels, with finance and non-finance teams.
• Excellent organisational skills

At Capita, training and development aren't optional extras: they're how we do our job we will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary and car allowance we also give you 23 day's holiday company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle

Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd. Services offered are those of an Employment Agency and Employment Business. Applicants will be required to register with us.

If you are successful with your application, you will need complete Capita's vetting and screening checks. This will include, but not be limited to, Reference Checks, a Criminality Check, Financial Probity Check, Sanctions Check and Media Check.