We have an excellent contract job opportunity for a Finance Business Partner/Senior Finance business analyst.
Role overviewThe Finance Business Partner will provide delivery-focused finance and commercial support to the Spend Intelligence project. The purpose of the project is to support procurement decision-making through improved transparency, structure and insight over spend data across client's OpCos.
Contract - 6 months (high potential to extend further)Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB)Hybrid - 3 days on-site per weekPay - attractive daily rate (inside IR35)
Scope and objectivesThe Spend Intelligence project aims to establish a consistent, automated and P&L-reconcilable view of spend to support procurement RFP and tender activity, supplier negotiations and value identification.
The contractor will:
1. Support the build-out of a robust spend intelligence dataset
2. Ensure financial integrity and comparability of data across OpCos
3. Translate finance and procurement requirements into actionable insights
Key accountabilities
4. Support delivery of the Spend Intelligence workstream under agreed scope, priorities and timelines
5. Work with Finance, Procurement and OpCos to gather spend, payables and invoice data in a consistent and increasingly automated manner.
6. Ensure spend data is accurate, comparable and reconcilable to finance actuals
7. Work closely with the Power BI / Data & Insights team to:
8. Translate finance and procurement requirements into reporting logic
9. Validate dashboards, visualisations and summary outputs
10. Produce clear spend insights and analysis to support:
11. Procurement RFPs and tenders
12. Supplier negotiations
13. Opportunity identification and value cases
14. Support Finance and Procurement stakeholders in interpreting outputs for decision-making
15. Operate in line with agreed finance, procurement and data governance frameworks
Key relationships
16. Business Transform - Finance and Spend Intelligence leads
17. Procurement teams
18. OpCo Finance teams
19. Power BI / Data & Insights teams
20. Programme and Transformation stakeholders
Skills, qualifications and experience
21. Strong experience in finance business partnering or commercial finance roles
22. Experience in spend analysis, cost transparency or procurement-related analytics
23. Experience collaborating with BI / PowerBI teams
24. Ability to work with complex, imperfect datasets and impose structure
25. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
26. Experience working on projects or programmes within large organisations is desirable.
Qualifications
27. Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) preferred, or equivalent experience
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