Description
Finance Business Partner
Nottingham
3 months
My client is a leading Financial Serivces business based in Nottingham, but with a Global presence. We are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the UK&I Finance team. This is a highly visible role which will have significant exposure to senior stakeholders with a varied set of responsibilities.
In this role, you'll have tremendous opportunity to have an influential role across all elements of the business, and the ability to positively impact performance. This business area focuses on generating revenue for the business, predominantly working with business to business clients on a new and ongoing basis.
Key responsibilities
Forecasting and Budgeting
- Support the vertical teams in preparation of accurate monthly revenue forecasts and annual budgets, providing insight on pipeline metrics to identify key risks and opportunities, ensure plans are in place to address revenue gaps
Month end
- Provide insight on revenue variances.
- Support the centre of excellence in the mechanical month end close.
- Support best practise financial control procedures, ensuring revenue recognition policies are applied consistently across the business aligned with group accounting policy
Cashflow
- Drive improvements in cash flow via reduction of queried and aged debtors
- Control of accrued revenue and ability to work with the Account teams and Accounts receivable to facilitate resolution in a timely manner
Commissions and Target setting
- Support the quarterly commissions activity, ensuring governance is adhered to, and calculations are accurate and reflective of performance
- Ensure annual targets set by individual are appropriate to drive achievement of vertical budgets
- Support Vertical teams in the commercial bid process, and contract reviews as necessary, ensuring the impact on revenue recognition is understood and that software project accounting and tracking is in place for deals and accounting policies adhered to
- Champion best practice processes across the 'order to cash' cycle through liaising with other Finance Partners, Finance shared Service Centre contacts and Sales Operations, ensuring that corporate systems are utilised to their full potential and billing processes are automated and centralised where possible
- Champion a culture where the fair treatment of customers is at the heart of the business
- Ensure that by leading by example, you adhere to all regulatory requirements and apply appropriate controls in the interests of customers.
Skills and Experience:
- Demonstrable experience in a finance function of a large corporate, ideally Plc, with some experience partnering with stakeholders
- A qualified accountant - Ideally CIMA
- Ability to develop business relationships with key stakeholders
- An articulate and proactive approach in order to develop a thorough understanding of the Go to Market business area
- Adaptability to change and proven track record of working in and responding positively to a fast paced, Matrix organisation
- Excellent analytical, financial modelling and problem solving skills, an unfaltering attention to detail and is highly logical and numerate
- Ability to work collaboratively across a Matrix organisation, managing multiple stakeholders, including those at a senior level
- Experience working with sales/marketing teams and non-financial teams