Finance Business Partner

Equiniti; Crawley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

This fixed term contract is full time but we can also accommodate it being part time for the first 3-5 months with a view to it moving up to full time hours for the duration of the contract.

Equiniti Product and Engineering Finance

Our finance team is an integral part of our decision-making process and is responsible for analysing risks, providing relevant insight, and formulating strategies to drive performance, as well as ensuring we meet all our obligations as a responsible organisation around reporting and financial transactions.

As a member of the Finance team, the finance business partner will be integral in delivering financial insight and analysis to the business. This position will report into the Finance Director and will be responsible for providing high quality analysis and MI to support key decision making. This role will utilise a mixture of business knowledge, technical accounting understanding, and excellent modelling skills to help our organisation meet its objectives. The role will be heavily focused on providing finance support and commercial partnering to the business.

Responsibilities

• Providing support to the P&E Finance Director.
• First point of contact for queries from the assigned business areas.
• Completing the month end process; reviewing, analysing, and commentating on performance.
• Completing the forecasting process, including P&L, headcount, balance sheet, and capex.
• Pro-active approach to assessing trends and risks within the core activities.
• Supporting the business through the annual budget setting exercise.
• Undertake ad-hoc tasks and projects as required.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Fully qualified accountant through either the ICAEW, ACCA, or CIMA.
• Self-motivated with proven analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated high levels of personal accountability and flexibility to meet deadlines.
• Proven experience of delivering results over a sustained period in a challenging environment.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Can interpret financial information to identify drivers impacting business performance.
• Demonstrates excellent relationship building, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Prior experience and knowledge of accounting processes.
• Knowledge of financial reporting systems (Workday and Adaptive Planning desirable).

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%.
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhanced cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.