
Global Finance Business Partner
- Billingham, County Durham
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be a Strategic Partner: play a key role in the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes related to global costs areas, ensuring alignment with global objectives and identifying opportunities for cost optimization.
- Global cost controlling: Lead the cost controlling for specific global cost areas including global IT, Quality and Science and Innovation. Work closely with the Global IT Finance Business controller providing guidance on cost control, opportunities and cost optimization. Additionally liaise with all FDB sites to ensure accuracy of the data reported.
- Global capex project controlling and partnering: Lead the cost control of global capex projects initiated by global functions, with a particular emphasis on global IT, while also encompassing other relevant global functions as appropriate. Provide guidance and support throughout the project governance and approval process, ensuring that business cases supporting the request are robust and underpinned by a comprehensive financial rationale. Serve as a representative of global finance on the IT portfolio board and in other business forums as needed. Ensure that global projects are accurately budgeted and accounted for at FDB sites, adhering to relevant accounting standards and policy.
- Drive Performance with Data: Analyse financial results, spot trends, and provide insights that empower leadership to make data-driven decisions. Drive accountability to global cost owners through meaningful, transparent data, ability to self-serve, as well as providing finance business partnering to these functions. Provide transparency through reporting the total cost of global functions including local and global costs.
- Tell the Story Behind the Numbers: Prepare and present reports, business cases, and performance analyses—turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership
- Process Improvement: Strive for continuous improvement supporting the enhancement of finance processes, systems and tools for great accuracy, efficiency and compliance
- Master’s degree in Finance or Economics required
- 5+ years of experience within Business Finance Partnering, FP&A or Business Controlling ideally in a large global organisation
- Professional Accounting Certification (e.g CPA, ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc)
- Ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas
- Competitive salary plus company bonus scheme
- 35 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
- Salary Sacrifice scheme offering, healthcare, bikes, dental etc.
- Generous pension scheme
- Free parking and electric charging points