Investigo are working with a large global organisation to recruit for Finance Business Partner position to be based out of their offices in the Weybridge area. This role offers a great opportunity for a Management Accountant to make a concerted move into Commercial Finance.
This is a hybrid working opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted, visible and accessible point of contact to business leaders
- Provide commercial and financial decision support; challenge and insight into business profitability to drive future performance.
- Accountable for the accuracy of financial records, compliance, business financial plans and forecasts that are produced by the global back office teams.
- Understand the value drivers of the business and provide guidance on contract / service performance including ROI, scenario planning, KPI analysis and benchmarking.
- Support the portfolio strategy through market, competitor and portfolio analysis; and inform market entry and exit decisions.
- Develop customer relationships to support successful commercial and financial negotiations regarding variable revenue, rebids and change notices.
- Support business leaders to deliver contractual obligations through identification of over and under delivery, performing root cause analysis, and making recommendations.
- Drive contract / service cost optimisation projects through profitability analysis and efficiency recommendations.
- Proactive identification, assessment and management of financial and commercial risks
- Drive contractual uplifts to support individual businesses as required
Skills and attributes:
- Capability of adding value in a commercially orientated bidding and contracting environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of the business within their scope of responsibility.
- Evidence of ability to influence, negotiate, listen to and resolve conflicts with decision makers.
- Ability to highlight problems, offer practical solutions, and support their execution.
- Commercial acumen, as well as experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business value drivers.
- Translate business requirements into open, honest and transparent insight to solve.
- Ability to interpret and deal with incomplete data; and the capability to exercise judgement where there is ambiguity.
- Evidence of building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Evidence of building trust with a team; allowing direct conversations and not sanitising messages.
- Experience of having worked successfully in a virtual team.
- Adaptable, energetic and a continuous learner
- A high level of focus on the achievement of targeted results
- A high level of flexibility and a positive attitude to innovation and change
If you are interested in being considered for this position or other similar roles please apply with a copy of your latest CV.
