Head of Finance Business Partnering
Posted 4 days ago by HAYS
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester, UK
Summary: The Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering role is a leadership position within a market-leading Insurance Group in Manchester. The successful candidate will oversee a team of Finance Business Partners, providing critical financial support and insights to various functions and stakeholders. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, and managing financial risks while collaborating closely with senior stakeholders. This role demands a qualified accountant with extensive business partnering experience and a strategic mindset.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of Finance Business Partners to support various functions and stakeholders.
- Provide financial support, insight, and oversight over financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting, and planning.
- Establish a framework for standardized reporting and cost management analysis.
- Conduct functional analysis to support investments and transformation projects.
- Report on Flash and actual results, managing financial risks and controls.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and provide additional analysis as required.
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified accountant with experience in senior business partnering roles.
- Extensive business partnering experience at an executive level.
- Strong understanding of corporate functions and costs.
- Experience in cost management and financial modeling.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Proven track record in team collaboration and strategic thinking.
Salary (Rate): £600.00 Daily
City: Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
An Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering role for a market-leading Insurance Group.
Your new company
A market-leading Insurance group in Manchester.
Your new role
Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering role, reporting to the Financial Director. You will lead a team of FBPs to support a range of functions and stakeholders, with key decision support information. You will provide financial support, insight, and oversight over their financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting and planning. You will provide a framework of standardised reporting and cost management analysis. Providing functional analysis to support investments and transformation projects, applying functionally specific expertise in finance, technology and data. You will be responsible for reporting of Flash and actual results. You will also be responsible for functional financial risks and controls, including process mapping of planning & forecasting, proactive capturing, escalation and management of the risk register. You will work closely with senior stakeholders and provide additional analysis as required.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be a fully qualified accountant, with experience of senior business partnering roles in large and complex businesses. Extensive Business Partnering experience to an Executive level & confident to present analytics and options, robustly. You will have an inquisitive mindset and a strong understanding of corporate functions and costs. You will have extensive cost management experience. Solution-orientated, flexible and pragmatic, you will be able to work under significant pressure and intensity, handling multiple priorities. You will be a true finance leader, with broad commercial finance experience: reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics. A proven team collaboration track record. Experience of investment appraisal, building financial models, to support key decisions. A strategic thinker with the ability to model bottom-up and top-down solutions.
What you'll get in return
A varied and rewarding role, with a high calibre business. A generous daily rate and flexible hybrid working from office and home.
What you need to do now
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