Interim Finance Business Partner

Partner Financial are currently working with an international consumer business. With a strong commitment to excellence, growth in the market and changes to the operating model, the business requires additional support in their commercial team.

The business is now looking to recruit an Interim Finance Business Partner who will play a key role in driving the transformation and new systems agenda in a Group Wide implementation project. This individual will work closely with the Programme Director and instil financial rigor, commerciality and efficiency throughout all elements of the projects. The new appointee would ideally start immediately.

Key responsibilities:

• Identifying financial and commercial risks and ensuring mitigation of, to ensure the Programme’s success is not compromised
• Prepare and present monthly budgets and forecasts for both short and longer term planning
• Implementing Project Accounting methodologies to strengthen governance and influence risk management
• Providing the financial insight that will influence and support strategic decision making through financial modelling and scenario analysis
• Taking ownership for the review of various business cases at key points and recording actual spend vs forecast
• Completion of month end management accounts, including headcount reporting, variance analysis and commentary as required
• Commercial management of project contracts, ensuring compliance, negotiation of new contract spend and adherence to terms
• Taking ownership for creating and managing the cost recharging methodologies.

The ideal candidate:

• A Qualified Accountant, with extensive experience working in complex, matrix organisations
• Experience business partnering with cost functions and driving transformational change
• Strong cost control experience
• Proven experience driving and influencing change
• Experience analysing business cases and investment opportunities
• A natural ability to manage a multitude of senior stakeholders

We will be contacting candidates with the closest match to the client’s selection criteria within 48 hours days of application to arrange an initial meeting. If you have not heard from us within these timescales, thank you for your interest but please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.