Job Description

In this role you’ll drive effective planning, insightful management reporting and profit improvements with our non-financial stakeholders across the business within one of our vertical finance categories

• Building and maintaining close working relations with key stakeholders to support and challenge performance
• Developing and delivering comprehensive and insightful weekly and monthly financial reporting to support the objectives of the functions, highlighting risks or opportunities, and working with stakeholders to take corrective action
• Delivering regular updates and presentations to give a meaningful understanding of the results for your area, leading the discussion and challenging the results to drive improvements
• Providing assessments of business cases and strategic opportunities to support and influence decision making
• Leading and supporting the planning process to improve the accuracy of budgets / forecasts
• Challenging submitted plans to ensure they are realistic, accurate and challenging keeping an eye of costs/capex spends etc
• Upskilling other team members, and providing cover across the team to develop a wider knowledge of the business
• Supporting the weekly/month-end accounting processes for your area to ensure accurate reporting of the financial performanc

We can offer you a competitive salary, bonus, 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 3% contribution into your pension, life assurance and income protection. On top of this, we offer a great range of flexible benefits that aim to provide something for everyone, so whether you want shopping vouchers, insurance or healthcare we’ve got you covered.

This role offers fantastic opportunities for you to climb the career ladder into managerial roles within both the function and wider business. At Hermes, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, we thrive on it and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Be educated to degree standard and holding a full professional accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent You’ll have some finance experience (pre and post qualification) and will be no stranger to budgetary control, profit & loss accounts and financial reporting Experience of supporting, challenging and influencing non-finance stakeholders in a fast-paced environment across all levels of seniority Naturally you’ll be very numerate and analytical, with commercial acumen to evaluate business plans as well as the charisma needed to influence often conflicting ideas Good communicator and strong inter-personal skills, able to communicate effectively to all levels within an organisation Strong IT skills and knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams etc A UK driving licence as within some of our finance business partner roles (project/depot) you’ll need to be able visit our hubs on a regular basis