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
What You’ll Do:

• 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 performance

Essential skills and experience required:

• 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

What we can offer you:  
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.

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