Key responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to provide commercial financial insight and challenge
- Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activity
- Provide financial support for transformation and operational improvement initiatives
- Develop and review business cases, financial models and scenario analysis
- Support investment prioritisation, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis
- Own and improve monthly performance reporting
- Clearly explain financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and commercial performance
- Challenge spend requests and business cases constructively
- Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Support continuous improvement across finance business partnering, reporting and planning processes
Skills and experience
- Qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Strong Finance Business Partnering / Commercial Finance experience
- Experience working within a large, complex organisation, ideally 5,000+ employees
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling experience
- Proven experience partnering and influencing senior non-finance stakeholders
- Experience within SaaS, software, digital, technology-enabled or service-led businesses would be advantageous
- Experience supporting transformation, investment appraisal, benefit tracking, cost initiatives or operating model change
- Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability
- Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrix environment with multiple senior stakeholders
Industry:
Finance & Strategy