A fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner has arisen to join an FMCG / Retail company based in Leeds. This role offers hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities.
Responsibilities:
1. Partner with client group to drive actions to meet targets
2. Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities.
3. Review actual performance with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash
4. Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business
5. Ensure business understands and delivers against KPIs
6. Facilitate ad-hoc analysis and insights on specific issues at a strategic level
7. Support strategy development by providing financial performance insights and recommendations to client group, identifying potential opportunities and/or risks through scenario and sensitivity analysis
8. Evaluate investment options from a financial perspective to provide a long term view of the impact on key KPIs for client group/business area (e.g. pricing, mix, sales, margin, variable costs, media costs, working capital, ROI etc)
9. Support the management of the capex budgeting process. Accurately forecast capital spending and depreciation for the development of budgets and long term plans for capital commitments. Create multi-party reviews of proposals, ROI analysis, cash flow analysis etc
10. Identify and provide financial implications for all projects / business initiatives
11. Leverage analyses provided by FP&A to drive business choices, by overlaying the commercial acumen and insight
12. Provide insight into competitor landscape to business and FP&A teams
13. Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities
14. Provide support and challenge to ensure the quality of data, working closely with other functions to improve accuracy and timeliness
Qualifications:
15. Qualified ACMA, ACCA or ACA
16. Previous Business Partnering experience within an FMCG environment
17. Microsoft Project skills, Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills