Senior Finance Business Partner
Posted a week ago by Barclay Meade
Our client, a leading engineering and maintenance provider, is currently seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their team in Warrington. Our client is known for enhancing the efficiency of assets, ensuring high availability, and reducing maintenance costs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Commercial and Operational management, providing financial insight to drive business improvement through higher margins and faster cash conversion.
- Developing the team of Finance Business Partners.
- Collaborate with the Senior Finance Leadership Team to implement the wider finance strategy.
- Support ERP optimisation within the finance team, contributing to projects and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Review and approve month-end reporting for contracts, ensuring robust and timely reporting to Group.
- Minimise working capital requirements through monthly debt and WIP reviews and influence payment terms in contracts/bids.
- Become a trusted Finance partner for commercial/operational stakeholders.
- Attend commercial reviews and project boards to improve processes and drive actions.
- Support continuous improvement and margin improvement processes by providing facts and evidence of improvements and sharing knowledge between business units.
- Support the budgeting and rolling forecast process, ensuring balanced yet challenging targets are set and achieved.
- Review estimates and tenders to validate margin estimates and cash flow forecasts.
- Drive change and improvement within the department and across business processes.
- Support additional projects and transformation initiatives as required.
Job Requirements:
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Demonstrable FP&A and commercial finance experience.
- Experience working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.
- Commercial and resilient character with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerBI.
- Experience using ERP systems.
Desired Skills:
- Experience using SAP.
- Experience in the engineering or professional services sector.
If you are a qualified finance professional with a demonstrated ability to drive financial and operational improvements, we would love to hear from you.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- ASAP
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- 573487_1719818697
- Job ID:
- 221919763
- Applications:
- Less than 10
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