Finance Business Partner

Marks Sattin have been exclusively retained to recruit this brand new role working for an exciting global, multi-award winning client who boast some blue chip and household names as clients including Google, Reckitt Benckiser, Coca Cola, Asda, Harrods, Pepsi and many others. This newly created role is as a result of another significant client win (both in client size and value to the business) and the decision has been made to add to the finance team to support two key functional areas as a result. This commercially focussed is a true Business Partner role provides you an excellent opportunity and platform to develop your career further into a future commercially focussed finance leader. Reporting to the European CFO with a dotted line into Group Finance/FP&A also, this Business Partner role involves:

• Day to day finance lead for the two key functional areas: Marketing and Support Services
• Provide accurate MI Reporting and Commentary
• Working with the senior management of the service lines and service line senior client leads, to ensure that all service line finance issues are resolved in a timely and accurate way;
• Managing the month-end process for the service lines, with specific responsibility for the profit & loss statements, balance sheet accounts affected by the service lines, including: Deferred Revenue, Accrued Revenue, AR, Project Accruals (Purchase Reserve), General Accruals, Credit note provisions, prepayments etc.
• Providing support during the year end process regarding queries with the two service lines;
• Leading and supporting the annual budget and mid-year reforecast processes and the Annual three-year planning process for the two service lines;
• Providing support in client pricing and costing decisions;
• Developing commercial models to support new client bids and client renewals;Working with UK management to ensure that all finance issues relating to client are resolved in a timely and accurate way
• Managing the month-end process for the client, with specific responsibility for the clients Profit & loss statement, down to contribution level and the balance sheet accounts affected by the client, including: Deferred Revenue, Accrued Revenue, AR, Project Accruals (Purchase Reserve), General Accruals, Credit note provisions, pre-payments etc.
• Day to day management of a team of three staff: two performing AR/Invoicing/Credit Control roles and one performing an AP role

Candidates should be full qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), strong academics and a proven (and rapid) track record of achievement to date. A career with a heavy bias towards Commercial Finance/ Strategy Finance, Business Partnering/ FP&A is needed with strong internal and external customer facing skills. Someone with a Project Accountant type background could also work. Whilst not essential working within outsourcing, client services/management, facilities management and such sectors where you are serving a client would be a nice to have. Strong inter-personals are a must as there is regular customer (internal) and client interaction.

This is an urgent requirement so apply now for immediate consideration.

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