Description
Our Blue Chip FTSE 100 client requires
The Finance Director is a lead role focussed around the main business partnering activities such as business analysis and insights, strategic business planning, budgeting and forecasting. They will lead the Business Partner teams to provide timely and effective support Senior Business Management stakeholders, as well as maintaining ultimate responsibility for a robust financial controls and compliance framework.
This role is responsible for the accountabilities listed below at the organisation level, and is responsible for providing strategic financial input and advice to MD and leadership team, advising them on the financial impact of key decisions, and has ultimate responsibility for the accuracy of management reporting.
Duties
- Work with business management teams to optimise the Value Proposition including providing the necessary MI to substantiate the value proposition.
- Advise the business on the optimal debt/equity structure including building relationships with both debt and equity providers
- Review the processes and systems and make recommendations for improvement.
- Provide financial leadership to Telecoms Infrastructure opportunities, including customer propositions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and financial modelling
Team Leadership
Lead a team of Finance Business Partners in a highly diverse, complex, problem solving environment with the ability to role model the behaviours outlined in the Group's Leadership Blueprint
Performance Improvement
- Provide proactive challenge to the business on financial performance to drive improvements
- Definition of management reporting requirements to ensure the right MI is available and being used in decision making by both Finance and the Business
- Work with business management teams to identify and implement initiatives and opportunities eg cost reduction, product mix, customer/contract profitability,
- Drive pipeline and delivery; work with Enterprise Business team to ensure achievement of targets; and identify opportunities and risks
- Facilitate finance review sessions with senior Finance and business stakeholders
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Co-ordinate and consolidate the annual budget including stakeholder sign off, providing financial insight and challenge as necessary to ensure budgets are accurate, realistic, and aligned with the broader strategy
- Co-ordinate and consolidate the quarterly forecast including stakeholder sign off, providing financial insight and challenge as necessary to ensure forecasts are accurate, realistic, and aligned with the broader trategy
- Coordinate plan and out-look analysis, review and final approval (including central targets and overlays), and competitive position monitoring
- Fully qualified accountant with 5+ years Post Qualified Experience in a Business Partner business-interfacing role with experience of solving business issues of similar scale and complexity
- Experience working as a Finance Director for a large Multi National Company
- Experience of mergers, acquisition and disposals
- Developing, motivating and leading a diverse, multi-locational team
- Interpreting and assimilating multiple data sources, including external market data, and rendering into meaningful insight and appropriate recommendations and clear actions
- Effectively communicating financial performance to operational colleagues to embed financial understanding within the business
- Influence strategy and translate this into actionable programmes, opportunities or activities that result in improved profitability or risk mitigation
- Able to manage multiple complex projects/processes simultaneously
- Operationally and commercially focused
- Structured finance modelling experience
- Private Equity experience
- Proficient in MS Office applications (particularly excel)
- Highly developed analytical skills
- Degree-level education or equivalent
- Knowledge of equivalent systems, processes and workflow technology
- In depth knowledge of ERP software (Oracle desirable)
Should you choose to contact Sopra Steria Recruitment regarding this role or to apply for it, all personal data you submit to us will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Notice which you can find on our website.