We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finli Finance team supporting our expanding business as we continue to execute on our acquisition and growth strategy.
The purpose of the role is to truly partner with the Commercial Director and Management teams to be able to provide financial insight to enable effective commercial decision making to support the delivery of existing KPIs and to identify opportunities for future growth both through leveraging our existing integrated businesses as well as our planned acquisition businesses.
Due to our fast growth and acquisition strategy, the shape and structure of our business is a financially complex area of our business which requires someone who can easily flex from thinking strategically to support our ambitious growth plans to providing absolute granularity of detail when summarising P&L performance and building accurate budgets and forecasts. This is a chance for someone to demonstrate their flexibility and tenacity alongside their ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders with often competing needs.
It really is an exciting and varied role that we have available in our central Finli Finance team.
Main Duties:
* Financial business partnering across all businesses (integrated and non-integrated)
* Preparation of annual budgets and new quarterly forecasting
* Support on business acquisition integrations & subsequent reporting
* Manage, build and improve the central FP&A excel reporting model
* Support the Head of FP&A on full P&L reviews & reporting to the Executive board, PE house & other financial partners
* Ad hoc project support e.g. Adviser remuneration scheme
* Help create uniformity across our businesses into the “Finli way” covering reporting, performance analysis, data, budget & forecasts
* Support our data cleanse and improvement project, ensuring our data set is of a high standard, reliable and the single source of the truth
* Build deep meaningful relationships with colleagues covering Commercial, Operations, Marketing, IT and more
* Support the usage of business systems including PowerBi
* Take charge of new month end reporting packs, presentations and insight
* Operate as a key link between the Management Accountants and FP&A team
* Implementation and maintenance of processes and procedures to support the reporting and control of costs
* Ad hoc commercial reporting
* Create new and/or improved ways of working across all business units and central Finance to support improved efficiency, quality and timeliness of Financial reporting
About you:
We’re keen to hear from people who:
* Are naturally analytical and inquiring
* Have excellent Excel skills
* Love to work both independently as well as in part of a team
* A self-starter who strives for high-quality results
* Are not afraid to proactively challenge others and have your opinion
* Have a tenacious personality and are good at influencing people
* Enjoy variety in your work and are comfortable operating both strategically and tactically
* Thrive on working in a fast paced and constantly evolving environment
* Have excellent communication skills especially given the remote nature of the role
Essential:
CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification is essential.
Weekly travel to the north west required outside of working hours.
Benefits:
* Competitive salary
* QWP Pension scheme
* Comprehensive benefits package including Private Medical, Income Protection and Life Assurance.
* Career development opportunities