Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Competitive Salary 

Warwickshire 

In this role you will be responsible for owning your business relationships and acting as the Finance point of contact to senior stakeholders. As the Finance Business Partner it is your responsibility to build strong rapport and trust to achieve the credibility to enable challenging discussions.

Client Details

This FTSE 100 utilities organisation is expanding its operations not just in the UK but globally and with this in mind, they are looking for top talent to support their growth. Based in Warwickshire, their Finance function is at the front and centre leading the business in meeting its upcoming challenges. With a £3 capital investment spend and £460m of customer savings generated through innovation and customer initiatives last year we constantly strive to find a better way to generate value. Their Finance Business Partners are key; they are fully integrated members of the business management team, setting strategy, and driving themselves and those around them to add value.

Description

As a finance business partner to one of the transmission, operation, or capital delivery businesses you'll:

• Own the relationship with your business stakeholders, building strong rapport and trust to achieve the credibility to enable challenging discussions around commercial performance
• Understand the financial challenges faced by your business leads and strategically influence them to deliver options to meet our financial targets now and in the future
• Effectively collaborate with your Finance colleagues to ensure provision of consistent, high quality financial information reinforced by high quality insight and financial advice, supporting the business to deliver the right financial outcomes

Based in Warwick, with some UK travel, you'll report to a senior finance business partner and will work within a team of equally excellent individuals. Whilst you might not have any direct reports in this role you'll be expect to form close connections with those in other teams and use your influence to deliver performance.

Profile

The successful Finance Business Partner will:

• Hold a recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) - Essential
• Have a successful track record in identifying opportunities and delivering against them
• Have strong interpersonal qualities
• Have strong communication skills with the ability to build trusting relationships with key stakeholders
• Have the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders
• Have what it takes to create a compelling vision for others and can talk to us about how you lead others through the transition to the desired state
• Be confident that you can quickly grasp the different commercial and regulatory lenses on an issue to give the best outcome for a decision
• Have a strong self-belief coupled with an ability to identify your development goals as well as supporting those around you in delivering theirs

Job Offer

• A competitive salary

• Performance linked bonus

• 25 days holidays a year on top of eight public/bank holidays

• Flexible working - include maternity leave of up to 52 weeks, paternity leave of two weeks and adoption leave of up to 52 weeks. We supplement this generous leave with a range of options for returning to work.

• YouPlan workplace savings and pension scheme with 'double-matched' contributions up to 6%.

• Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan (SIP).

The closing date for this vacancy may change, therefore, we encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date.