Senior Finance Business Partner

I am recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join a well-established and highly reputable service company based in the city centre of Manchester on a full time, permanent basis.

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, this is a pivotal role within the finance function were you will drive business performance within a successful firm. You will enable the department to achieve it's objectives through in depth financial analysis and commercial awareness.

You will lead the annual budgeting and three-year planning process, responsible for producing an integrated and cohesive set of financial outputs that are well explained and owned by the business.

An overview of the duties are:

• Provide financial and commercial support to Head of FP&A, CFO and CEO.
• Define and deliver the annual budgeting process, co-ordinating widely across the finance department and all senior stakeholders in order to do so.
• Develop and refine your financial modelling techniques to ensure that the budget and forecasts are robust and accurate and that alternative scenarios are modelled to suit different strategic assumptions.
• Produce a monthly forecast for P&L, cashflow and key KPI
• Create techniques to monitor the capital cash spend
• Provide insightful analysis on the financial performance of different parts of the Well group, identifying trends and patterns
• Liaise with the various financial business partners to ensure a consistent narrative and understanding of business performance
• Identifying and developing relevant financial metrics to permit insight into the business
• Partnering with the Heads and their team and help shape strategy
• Support Head of FP&A and CFO on any other ad-hoc strategic projects, opportunities or initiatives
• Day to day management of direct reports
• Create, maintain and validate accurate business models for strategic workstreams
• Partner with senior managers outside of finance to provide solid financial support, relevant challenge and a holistic joined up view for exec decision making
• Will be required to work on monthly, quarterly annual and 3-year strategic planning horizons.

You will be Qualified in ACCA/CIMA/ACA with 5 years PQE, have extensive experience in a similar role dealing with senior stakeholders and hold advanced financial modelling skills (Excel based) to be considered.

If you are interested in hearing more about the role then please send your CV for immediate consideration.