Assistant Finance Business Partner
Posted 3 days ago by SF Recruitment
£225 Per day
Fixed-Term
Undetermined
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Summary: The Assistant Finance Business Partner role is a 3-month fixed-term contract based in Coventry, serving as the single point of contact for finance-related inquiries within the region. The position involves collaborating with management to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards while supporting operational performance and financial services programs. The candidate will also engage with various stakeholders to validate business cases and provide insights through financial data analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with local stakeholders: Sales (Operations), Finance, External Partners, and customers.
- Validate business cases, deals, etc.
- Ensure accurate, transparent, consistent, and timely financial records and reporting submissions, in compliance with IFRS Accounting Standard and other corporate and legal standards.
- Support the development, rollout, implementation, and maintenance of financial services programs in the region.
- Support for external and internal audits.
- Support central business controlling team with forecast and planning.
- Monitor and analyze financial data and produce reports to share business insights and drive decisions.
- Support the region in improving overall operational performance with Financial Services partners.
- Perform product and pricing benchmarking to secure competitiveness of products.
- Work closely with partners to provide internal training to the region.
- Maintain strong relationships with internal departments such as Finance, Digital, Training, Network Development, and IT.
- Lead and support on a wide range of finance and company projects.
Key Skills:
- Experience in a similar role with a strong understanding of the automotive industry and retail network business.
- Experience working within a Global/European organization with an understanding of vehicle sales.
- Certified Accountant.
- Understanding of different financial services and product needs per country.
- Team player capable of working in a dynamic environment.
- Strong data and analytical skills.
- Organized with the ability to multitask and prioritize workload.
- Flexible team player with strong collaboration skills.
- Experience with Salesforce is a benefit.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Fluent in English; additional European languages or Chinese Mandarin are beneficial.
Salary (Rate): £225 per day
City: Coventry
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Detailed Description From Employer:
SF Recruitment are recruiting for a 3 month fixed term contract based in Coventry for an Assistant Finance Business Partner This role will be the Single point of contact (SPOC) for the region for finance related questions and work together with management team to support and challenge their daily activities. The role will ensure the timely and accurate capture of financial information/output necessary for effective management decisions, and in compliance with Local GAAP, local statutory laws and accounting standards, corporate policies/procedures and key controls. What you'll do:
- Work closely with local stakeholders: Sales (Operations), Finance, External Partners and customers
- Validate business cases, deals etc.
- Ensure accurate, transparent, consistent, and timely financial records and reporting submissions, in full compliance with IFRS Accounting Standard and other corporate and legal standards
- Support the development, rollout, implementation and maintenance of the financial services programs in the region.
- Support for the (external & Internal) audits.
- Support central business controlling team with forecast and planning.
- Monitor and analyse financial data and produce reports to the organization to share business insights and drive decision.
- Support the region with improving overall operational performance with Financial Services partners.
- Perform product and pricing benchmarking and secure competitiveness of our products
- Work closely with partners to provide internal training to the region.
- Have a strong relationship with internal departments, such as Finance, Digital, Training, Network Development and IT.
- Project Management lead and support on a wide range of finance and company projects.
- Experience in a similar job with a strong understanding of the automotive industry and retail network business.
- Experience working within a Global/European organisation combined with an understanding of vehicle sales.
- Be a certified Accountant.
- Understands the different needs per country in regard to financial services and products.
- Team player, willing to support and is capable of working in a very dynamic and changing environment.
- Strong data and analytical skills.
- Very organised with the ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
- Flexible team player, you like collaborating closely with different kinds of people, but you also excel when working alone.
- Experience with Salesforce is a benefit
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to work well with a wide range of people.
- Fluent in English, any additional European languages or Chinese Mandarin would be a benefit.