Description
Position Title: Senior Finance Business Partner, Support Functions
Location: Warwick
The post holder will be a key contributor in leading contributor towards our vision of 'To deliver quality financial insights, challenge & support to drive improved business performance through better decisions'. They will be an ambassador for the Finance Business Partner team, actively collaborating with the business to drive commercial outcomes aligned to the company's strategic objectives.
Purpose of the role
Provide insightful financial business partnering to a number of senior stakeholders who lead the Functions that support our business operations:
- Own the relationship with business stakeholders, building strong rapport and trust to achieve the credibility to enable challenging discussions around performance
- Effectively manage direct reports to build a high-performing and engaged team
- Understand the financial and strategic challenges faced by your stakeholders and how these impact the various companies businesses. Help to influence stakeholders and the wider business to deliver options to meet our financial targets now and in the future.
- Provide commercial insight and industry knowledge that improves decision making, drives better business performance and enhances shareholder value
- Effectively collaborate with your Finance colleagues in the UK and US to ensure provision of consistent, high quality financial information reinforced by high quality insight and financial advice, supporting the business to deliver the right financial outcomes.
Key Skills & Behaviours
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an instinctive desire to collaborate and build strong and mutually trusting relationships
- Fully qualified accountant holding either (ACCA/ACA/AAT/CIMA)
- Strong communication skills with the capability to articulate and pitch financial information at the appropriate level
- Self-starter with the ability to work using own initiative and comfortable dealing with diverse challenges and workload
- Strong attention to detail yet with the ability to understand fit with the bigger picture
- Excellent analytical skills and competent working with financial and qualitative data
- Forward looking with a curiosity to get to the root of a situation and look for options to resolve
- Strong business acumen and understanding of the wider energy industry
Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Leading and communicating
- Adapts all information in every format (eg emails, reports, models, presentations, etc.) to meet the stated needs of specific users
- Seeks early engagement with stakeholders to gain buy-in and feedback on quality and ensures decision makers have all relevant and available information in a timely manner to enable informed decisions to be made
- Applies business knowledge, analytical thinking and fact-based insight to constructively challenge and support senior business managers, partnering with them to improve decision making and business performance
Collaborating and partnering
- Analyses stakeholder information to anticipate future needs and takes the initiative to resolve potential issues and being able to trace the consequences of actions or multiple chains of events
- Has an appreciation of who the real decision makers are, and how this impacts on getting things done. Recognises powerful and political relationships within the business and understands the impact this has on getting projects completed effectively
- Develops collaborative and effective partnerships with finance colleagues and other business partners, actively breaking down silos between functions
Delivering value for money
- Helps to develop financial plans and project delivery of results
- Spot warning signs of things going wrong and proactively provides a decisive response or options to the appropriate stakeholders to enable the situation to be rectified
- Continually tracks changes in the costs and benefits throughout the life cycle of projects prompting relevant stakeholders to take remedial action to drive value for the business
- Encourages and provides rigour within risk management strategies, identify new ways to reduce risks to an acceptable level and evaluates risks, issues and opportunities from both financial and commercial perspectives
Seeing the bigger picture
- Gathers data from various sources to prepare information for reports and challenges information received over quality, integrity and consistency
- Considers a wide range of factors including alignment to business strategy and exposure to reputational risk in challenge and review of business cases
- Applies experience and judgement to assess financial and non-financial consideration of an investment and uses judgement to distinguish between critical, material and non-material inputs and interdependences
- Presents business cases to senior stakeholders taking into consideration linked impacts across the company
Changing and improving
- Continually assesses the appropriateness of financial information, identifying new and changing requirements and communicates these requirements to facilitate report development
- Actively captures and communicates 'lessons learnt'
- Promotes focus on improving the financial acumen of the business