Vacancy Details

Vacancy Type : Permanent

Location: North West

Salary : Negotiable

Consultants Name : Zach Crawford

Consultants Contact number: 07355 346348

Description

Finance Business Partner

Location – Preston
Salary – up to £65,000

About the company:
A well-established professional services business. You’ll be working in a broad commercial role, based in Preston.

Responsibilities include:
• Provide financial insight, challenge and support to the service line leadership and management teams
• Translate financial information (including KPIs and monthly management accounts) into analytical opinion by identifying and working with service line and local management to understand underlying trends and exceptions, whilst considering any wider impact of these moving forward.
• Contribute in driving operational performance by promoting commercial thinking, understanding the key drivers of the business and how they affect overall performance and profitability.
• Track progress towards budgets and periodic forecasts, supporting the business to understand their commitments and their progress towards achieving these.
• Take a leading role in the annual budgeting process, by working with the service line leadership and management teams to set a fair, but challenging budget.
• Assume a lead role within the Commercial Finance team, working closely with colleagues to proactively drive improvement, enhancing the planning tools available and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate process/reporting.

Skills/Qualifications required:
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified, part-qualified applicants or those with previous similar experience also considered
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communication skills, capable of supporting and challenging decisions makers
• Proven Excel skills
• Self-starter, tenacious and diplomatic


For more information around this role or others, or to send over your CV, please contact zach.crawford@yourrecruitmentpartner.com