Finance Business Partner - London
Posted Today by Mark Sattin
£50,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
Summary: The Finance Business Partner role is a 2-month contract position within an Events company in Central London, focusing on financial accountability for various events. The position requires collaboration with project teams to manage project spending and provide accurate financial data. The ideal candidate should be dynamic, organized, and driven, with a strong background in finance and project accounting. Immediate availability is required for candidates interested in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Month end closedown
- Regular analysis of income, GP%, staffing costs
- Assist in preparing the annual budgets and reforecasts / rolling forecast
- Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Assist with year-end audit
- Assist with weekly payment runs
- Assist the Finance team in any other ad hoc projects and events
- Producing ad-hoc budgets and projections for the Directors
- Oversee consolidated event P&L tracker for all events
- Reconcile card and cash takings to accurately report and recognise revenue
- Owning the event budget from a Finance perspective and challenging any overspends
- Ensuring PO's have been raised and approved for all committed costs
- Liaising with Operations and Management to ensure correct and timely client reporting
- Working with Project Manager to reconcile project against budget and report on variances
- Producing analysis reports to identify trends to help onsite operations
- Ownership of the bespoke budgeting system ensuring all standard costs are up to date
- Liaise with the developer of the bespoke budgeting system to ensure issues are tracked and fixed
Key Skills:
- Project accounting experience
- Advanced Excel skills (vlookup, sumifs, pivot tables etc)
- Strong analytical skills, with expertise in budgeting and variance analysis
- Able to work with large volumes of data and complex spreadsheets
- Confident and able to challenge senior managers on event budgets and expenditure
- Organised, methodical with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Able to multi-task and cope with pressures of conflicting work priorities
- Experience and managing projects to tight deadlines
- Experience in events/festival/hospitality industry
- Paprika accounting system
Salary (Rate): 50000
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other