Job description
Finance Business Partner
up to £63k depending on experience
Hybrid working - London
I am currently recruiting for an experienced Finance Business Partner role on behalf of a fantastic client of mine in the Travel / Leisure industry. This role requires someone with a min of 3 years experience as a Finance Business Partner with the ability to influence, engage and support senior stakeholders. You will be working in a fast paced environment alongside a collaborative and hard working team.
Key Responsibilities
* Build strong and positive relationships with budget holders and senior management team,
* supporting them with analysis to drive commercial decisions.
* Ensure divisional heads understand and 'own' their numbers by providing analysis that
* informs and aids their decision making.
* Assist the offshore team with queries and review information provided from the offshore
* team.
* Seek additional commercial opportunities, cost efficiencies and control, and manage risks.
* Instigate investigations into variance analysis, drilling down, interrogating, establishing root
* causes and providing insights, alongside the Accounting and Control team.
* Work in conjunction with the Accounting and Control team to attain key financial information,
* assisting data collation.
* Produce and evolve a monthly reporting pack
* Presenting relevant financial information at monthly department meetings, including
* overviews of the P&L performance versus Budget/Forecast, KPI's, risk & opportunities and
* non-financial indicators.
* Assist in the production of rolling P&L forecasts with strong functionality, data integrity and
* accuracy.
* Assist Head of Financial Planning and Analysis to achieve tight deadlines in delivering
* budget/forecast.
* Competitor analysis and market insight reports.
Skills & Experience
* Part Qualified, actively studying and working towards your CIMA/ACCA qualification
* Highly collaborative with the ability to drive change
* Resilient and willingness to challenge the status quo / remove blockers
* Capability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organisation
* Pro-active, holding a continuous improvement mindset
* Positive can-do attitude and solution orientated
* Effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise and manage
* multiple concurrent tasks across multiple stakeholders to tight deadlines with minimal
* supervision is essential
* Advanced data analysis and forecasting / bid modelling experience
* Thorough, accurate and strong attention to detail, able to look at the bigger picture when
* appropriate
* Strong commercial and organisational acumen
* Demonstrated effective written and adaptive interpersonal communication skills
* Ability to communicate clearly particularly to non-finance stakeholders
* High standard of O365 skills (especially Excel & SharePoint)
* PowerBI experience preferred