Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Based: Bromsgrove & Warrington (North & Midland sites)

Salary: highly dependent on experience, Car allowance OR Car, extensive benefits package

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join one of the fastest growing companies in the UK house-building sector on the back of a period of continued growth and success.

Reporting directly to the CRL Finance Manager and working closely with both Regional Managing Directors you will provide efficient and effective financial control, information and advice at all levels within the company. This will include management accounts, workflow reporting, forecasting and providing financial insight.

Key Responsibilities

• Producing monthly Regional Board reports with commentary and input into the Regional Managing Directors Operations Board report.
• Interpreting and challenging financial and statistical information from the business, to analyse the performance of the region and provide advice to the Regional Board members.
• Sales unit forecasting scrutiny and incentives tracking/control.
• Reporting against KPI's to ensure we are on track to deliver our ambitious 4 year growth plans, understanding and commenting upon key variances.
• Attending key regional meetings such as Regional Board meeting, workflow meetings and cost review meetings.
• Controlling, collating and providing annual regional budgets.
• Owning site appraisals, for each development for which you are responsible. This means keeping the appraisals updated, scrutinising and challenging inputs and searching for risks and opportunities to improve the profit margin and providing reports for key stages in the appraisals lifecycle.
• Assisting with the production of statutory accounts

Candidate Specification

• We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced finance professional who will enjoy being a trusted partner to two growing regions within the housebuilding sector.
• You will be a fully qualified professional to CIMA, ACCA or ACA level with excellent knowledge of accounting systems
• Your background will include the preparation of management accounts, forecasting, budgeting and communicating with people around the organisation.
• You will be confident in your ability to produce meaningful reports with accompanying narrative, in addition to presenting the information in board meetings
• The successful Finance Business Partner will have excellent interpersonal skills, a logical and methodical way of working with strong time management, influencing and planning skills
• Confident IT skills and the ability to write clear, concise and accurate reports are also essential skills for this opportunity.

The working hours for this role are 9:00am-5:30pm Monday to Thursday and 9:00am-5:00pm on a Friday. No weekends. It would be expected that your time would be split between the two regional offices to ensure you can support both regions equally.

In return the business offer the below benefits;

• Competitive salary
• Company Car or Car Allowance options
• Annual holiday entitlement of 25 days, plus Bank Holidays
• Day off on your birthday
• Personal Pension
• Life Assurance
• Eye care vouchers
• Investment into your personal development
• Career progression opportunities
• Long service awards
• £200 John Lewis vouchers for all expectant parent
• Colleague recommendation bonus scheme
• Colleague well-being initiatives and Ambassadors
• Socially conscious company with our own charitable foundation who offer a fund-matching programme for Colleagues