We’re here for the first step, the next step, and the big step.
You’re not just a number to us. You’ve got to know you’ll love working here. It’s as important to us as you ‘being the right fit’. We want to help you feel what it’s like to work at Evri, to see the value you can bring to any of our roles, and how we can help you grow. We’re never one-size-fits-all. Our careers are as unique as you are.
We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the Evri Finance team to develop and deliver clear and robust value add reporting and insights to the Operations team and field business partners, which drive performance improving actions and decision making.
As a Finance Business Partner for our ‘Final Mile’ you will be responsible for building, engaging and delivering the Strategic Finance Plan, Budgets and Forecasts for your area through quality stakeholder management.
You will be accountable for:
Financial Planning
1. Deliver detailed and accurate Operations Financial Plans for Courier and Delivery Units, which have been stress tested and had full engagement with business owners;
2. On an ongoing basis, embed identified risks and opportunities into future forecasts, providing clarity on the financial impact and work with the Operations team and field business partners to mitigation that risk or maximise on the opportunities;
3. Own and maintain all planning data inputs and all the assumptions and drivers within the forecasts, budgets and strategic plans.
Performance Management
4. Track agreed performance actions and report back to the Operations team on key themes;
5. Support the challenge and influence of stakeholders to ensure they make well informed decisions that improve business performance;
6. Partnering your designated area with Central Operations, you will work closely with key stakeholders across the business and the field business partners to ensure targeting and cost control are optimised;
7. Tell the performance story, with impactful on weekly, periodic and on longer-term performance trends.
Data, Reporting, and Insights
8. Reconciliation of key performance layers and conduct variance analysis weekly, periodic, quarterly and full year, to understand what is driving the results;
9. Driven by curiosity to identify opportunities and feed those into the organisation as actionable insight driving the forward plan. Linking actuals and planning is critical.
10. Liaise with Financial Control on period end actuals reporting to ensure the view is reconciled, so that we can communicate with impact to our stakeholders and ensure actions are taken on under-performing areas;
11. Delivers key cyclical performance reporting for your area Operations, including P&L and Capital, and support on providing a consolidated review of performance;
12. Seek to simplify weekly and periodic reporting processes, to ensure effort marries value;
13. Identify new techniques and methodologies to improve insights, including external benchmarking, working with internal & external relevant stakeholders, and developing own knowledge of advancements in modelling techniques;
14. Responding to key trends/issues to perform complex financial modelling and interpretation of the data to provide recommendations to senior management and stakeholders to aid decision making;
15. Support the transition to dashboarding and a productionised data and reporting environment, with combined financial and non-financial KPIs information provision;
Financial Governance and Control
16. Analytical support on business cases including trial analysis for infrastructure and strategic projects;
17. Build business cases with the accountable operations team and field business partners, to support the draw down of investment to secure future value, supporting the Finance Manager – Network and Planning;
18. Own relevant appraisal assumptions and ensure agreed business cases flow back into financial planning models;
19. Continue to improve the financial control environment to ensure risk is reduced, through clear risk management processes and best practice financial control is in place;
To be successful in this role you will require the following…
Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:
20. Accountancy qualified (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) or near qualification, with 4+ years of accountancy experience
21. UK Driving Licence
22. Ideally worked in an insights or business partnering role
23. Strong working knowledge of analytical methods, practices, and techniques, including hypothesis framework approach to answering questions
24. Evidence of delivering strategic financial plans, budgets and forecasts
25. Proven ownership of systems and procedures
26. Business casing and financial appraisal
Why Work Here?
We’re constantly looking at ways to become a more inclusive and diverse employer, and our benefits package is important to us. Here’s some of what we currently offer:
27. Flexible working; work from home, or in the office – whatever suits you.
28. 26 days + bank holidays, as well as an option to buy and sell up to 5 days holidays.
29. Bonus Scheme: an annual bonus that can earn you up to 15% if you really push the boundaries
30. Career progression framework; map out your next steps in your career
31. Pension: 3% employer contribution on top of what you choose to commit yourself
32. A range of discounts from our clients
33. We also have a range of flexible benefits such as additional life assurance, critical life insurances and others to choose from