
Finance Business Partner
- Southend-on-Sea, Essex
- £55,000-65,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintain an effective forecasting, planning, reporting and analysis capability on both a GAAP and cash basis.
- Creation, development and production of Finance exhibits and analysis packs including commentary on both revenue generation and expenses.
- Own and develop short, medium and long term cashflow projections.
- Own the process for budgets and forecasts, implementing new processes where required and supporting the business to deliver the information needed.
- Produce expected outcomes of new projects and track benefit realisation from projects now live, making recommendations to senior management where lessons can be learned.
- Identify and implement improvements to the planning/forecasting process.
- Prepare insightful analysis to aid key decision makers, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Support the wider finance team with the financial close process, including understanding variances in the monthly results.
- Liaise with auditors where required, supporting deliverables such as analytical review.
- Any ad-hoc duties as required.
- Previous business partner experience, with a demonstrable track record of delivering value to a business.
- Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders and high-profile sensitive performance data.
- Must have experience within financial planning and analysis (i.e budgeting/forecasting), including the creation and production of high-quality management information.
- Experience in dealing with planning and forecasting on both a GAAP and cash basis, across all 3 primary statements (P&L, balance sheet and cashflow).
- Project appraisal and evaluation at various stages of the project life cycle.
- Strong competence in excel, understanding best practice and having strong self-audit skills
- Recognised accountancy body qualification essential
- Possess excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills with experience of building relationships with senior management and the wider business, including being able to explain complex issues to non-finance colleagues in a clear and concise way.