Finance Business Partner
- Recruiter
- Oliver James Associates Limited
- Location
- England, Cheshire, Chester
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 17 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 24 Aug 2017
- Ref
- 998155
- Contact
- Tom Allen
- Job Title
- Finance Business Partner
- Category
- Insurance
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Title: Finance Business Partner
Salary: Upto £50,000 + Bonus
Location : Cheshire
Post type: Permanent
Oliver James Associates is proud to be working with a leading Financial Services organisation in the search for a strong Finance Business Partner, the role will support key stakeholders in providing a flexible resource across strategic initiatives and working on priority projects.
Role Requirements
- Microsoft Excel/Access skills
- Experience in multi-product European environment
- Big 4 accountancy experiences
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Stakeholder Management Skills
- Ability to prioritise
- Confident, ambitious and driven
Key Deliverables
- Ownership of the production of European gross margin by client and product for the monthly and annual forecasting process.
- To extract detailed data from internal databases into appropriate formats which aid the delivery of commercial insight and guidance for decision making
- Business partnering client and product managers providing challenge and support
- To deliver accurate and timely Management Information to internal and external stakeholders
- To deliver and support in ad hoc business requests
- Support monthly close process including margin calculation and also variance analysis
- Support year-end statutory reporting
- Establish and build relationships with internal stakeholders
- Establish and build relationships with the market facing teams to aid delivery of business plans
- Engage, grow and support the development of the FP&A team
Key Responsibilities
- Ownership for the delivery in year objectives aligned to required performance standards
- Influence, shape and execute solutions to realise objectives
- Effectively uses all resources to ensure optimisation of delivery
- Engages positively with stakeholders
- Constructively challenges drivers for change and takes ownership of change activity ensuring implementation is timely, to quality within budget and risks are mitigated.
- Identify PI/CI opportunities both embracing and encouraging change
- Ownership for the delivery and management of TCF initiatives to ensure fair customer outcomes
- Manage risks, including identification, mitigation and controls within department/ span of control
- Day to day management of systems and controls aligned to regulatory responsibilities
- Drive and support a compliant and customer centric culture
- Builds on capability and talent opportunities for all staff
- Drives delivery through the engagement of people and cross functional teams
- Engages employees by demonstrating company values and behaviours and ensuring key business messages are cascaded where relevant
- To embed and live the company values in everything you do
- Adhere to Information Security policy
Benefits
- Excellent salary reflecting the level of the role
- Outstanding bonus potential
- Generous pension scheme
- Flexible benefits choice