Description
Finance Business Partner (Finance and Operations)
Rate: £flexible (INSIDE IR35)
Location: Chesterfield
Term: 3 months
Sopra Steria Recruitment are now looking for a Finance Business Partner to join a fantastic organisation in Chesterfield for an initial 3-month contract.
Role
To provide relevant and timely financial analysis to evaluate and challenge performance of the costs which impact the P&L and investment decisions.
Responsibilities
- Provide financial support and management information to evaluate and challenge monthly and quarterly performance of all areas of cost which impact the function.
- Provide analysis and KPI's to highlight areas of investigation and month end variance analysis
- Identify Risks and Opportunities and highlighting through the appropriate channels
- Provide analytical support for the budgeting and forecasting processes
- Highlight performance issues for review in relevant monthly Performance Reviews
- Provide quality analysis to support business cases and benefits evaluation
- Participate in cross Finance initiatives and workstreams
- Approval of Purchase Order requisitions within the agreed company levels
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with any specific legislative, regulatory, or contractual requirements.
Skills/Experience
- Good understanding of finance systems (particularly SAP and Business Objects packages)
- Computer literacy/numeracy with strong Excel, Word and Powerpoint skills
- Qualified accountant
- Broad range of accountancy skills - ideally qualified or part qualified accountant with CCAB recognised qualification (eg ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or working towards full qualification
- Management accounting and business partnering experience
- Budgeting and forecasting experience
- Experience of balance sheet review and controls; audit experience preferable
- Good communicator and good at building relationships
- Experience in a 'commercial' finance environment
- Ideally, experience of Personal financial Services and/or telecoms business
- Month end and budgeting processes
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