Senior Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

• Lead the Business Partnering function and team, whilst collaborating with the finance and control teams across the following:
• Partner with business unit leaders to review results and provide financial and data insights and guide the financial and operational teams on data requirements
• Commercial Decision Support for vertical and horizontal leaders and influence key decisions with data-driven financial advice.
• Provide real-time financial analysis to support pricing, contracts, investments, and initiatives.
• Develop robust financial models to evaluate scenarios, risks, and opportunities and incorporate sensitivity analysis and simulations
• Analyse and report on vertical and horizontal financial and operational KPIs, enabling proactive performance management.
• Prepare, review and analyse actual results versus budget and forecast by horizontal and vertical for individual leaders, management and group reporting
• Preparation of horizontal and vertical budgets and forecasts.
• Drive budget and forecast accuracy and ability to prepare rolling 13 month forecasts.
• Manage the people budget, forecast and actual model for timely reporting and forecasts.
• Partner with the People team and horizontal leaders to make quick and informed workforce planning decisions.
• Understand and analyze margins and profitability across the verticals.
• Understand and analyze cost structures and margins across products, services, clients, geographies, projects & competitors and seek and influence opportunities for improvement
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, revenue & profit growth, and process improvement
• Partner with business units to execute efficiency programs
• Improve financial understanding within business teams through coaching, support and reporting tools.
• Flash revenue and GP reporting
• Reverse due diligence and M&A support as needed to FP&A and Group Accounting Team
• Payment approvals where required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years finance experience, with a minimum of 3-5 years team leadership experience
• Executive Level stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills across executive, product, creative and commercial teams.
• Advanced Excel skills, and interpretation of data through Excel
• Excellent presentation of financial information
• Commercial finance skills
• Management accounting skills
• Strong relationship management
• People management and leadership skills
• Problem solving and ability to work in the ‘grey’
• High growth technology/ founder led experience
• Team player and leader who is collaborative, but also ready and willing to roll up sleeves to get things done
• Desirable
• marketplace industry experience is an advantage
• Desirable
• experience of working in a PE / listed company environment

Tech Stack

• Flash

Benefits

• Inspiration
• Knowledge
• Career development