Senior Finance Business Partner - Mainstay

Senior Finance Business Partner - Mainstay

Job Role: Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Hybrid, London - Will be required to travel to New Milton, Worcester and Luton occasionally.

Hours: 35 per week, Monday to Friday

As the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will contribute to our vision of being the UK's favourite property manager by:

• Providing an exceptional business partnering service to operational managers, assisting budget holders to exceed their deliverables and take corrective measures where appropriate.
• Owning division level corporate financial results and processes and supporting the finance director in understanding the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow. Ensuring that financial risks are managed and emerging variances to budgets can be anticipated and mitigated through timely action.
• Delivering on AVIVA key performance indicators, reporting, and audit requirements.

This role reports to the Director of Finance - Mainstay. There are up to 2 direct reports in this role.

Main Responsibilities

• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with senior managers and their teams regarding the 5 business units in the Mainstay Division.
• Driving change in the behaviour of budget holders, supporting product launches and business growth.
• Establishing a regular Performance Review process with Operation managers and their teams, understanding performance and driving management action.
• Acting as the bridge between strategic and delivery teams to ensure group objectives and plans are achieved.
• Providing input to Group FP&A for budget, forecasting and reporting on all volume/margin topics.
• Providing analysis and insight that links financial reports to business strategies.
• Embedding financial controls and control processes.
• Conducting ad-hoc analysis and reporting including business modelling.
• Implementing and embedding benchmarking to assist with performance assessment.
• Identifying process inefficiencies and driving improvement programs.
• Managing and maintaining AVIVA reporting and audit requirements.
• Providing coaching and training to direct reports.
• Deputising for the Director of Finance where appropriate.

Skills and Experience

• A commercially orientated qualified Finance individual (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• 5-10 years post-qualified commercial experience.
• Highly motivated and pro-active self-starter who has demonstrable ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong customer focus with excellent organisation skills.
• Team player and able to lead by example.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience of using Adaptive Insight preferable.

Diversity
We're committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will consider applications from job share applicants.

Ready to Apply?
Click the below apply button to start your application for this role. We will ask you to upload your CV and answer a few questions. You may also be asked to complete verbal and numerical reasoning tests online.
If you meet the criteria for the role, we'll be in touch to arrange a short telephone interview and our shortlist of candidates will be invited to attend interviews with the hiring manager and up to three other key stakeholders.