Finance Business Partner

Qualifications:
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Previous experience of budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, financial performance analysis, and cost management.
• Ability to take responsibility for key finance processes, utilizing support roles and prioritizing work to meet deadlines.
• Technical accounting knowledge with previous experience within financial services.
• Stakeholder management skills and potential to grow into a leadership role.

Challenges I Solve:
• Instill accountability (efficiency and effectiveness) in the business supported by accurate month-end reporting and analysis.
• Utilize data to understand and surface business drivers, levers to manage financial performance, and emerging risks and opportunities. Support and challenge the business to make good decisions on cost.
• Robust delivery of planning cycles for respective areas: budgeting, forecasting, longer-term strategic planning.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis on costs, benchmarking financial performance against peers. Timely, insightful, and commercial commentary and discussion with the business.
• Inputting into board papers and investor packs; driving business strategy and influencing at multiple levels of the organization.