Senior Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner
up to £70k depending on experience
Hybrid working - London

I am currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner role on behalf of a fantastic client of mine in the Travel / Leisure industry. This role requires someone with a min of 5 years experience as a Finance Business Partner with the ability to influence, engage and support senior stakeholders. You will be working in a fast paced environment alongside a collaborative and hard working team.

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong and positive relationships with budget holders and senior management team,
• supporting them with analysis to drive commercial decisions.
• Ensure divisional heads understand and 'own' their numbers by providing analysis that
• informs and aids their decision making.
• Assist the offshore team with queries and review information provided from the offshore
• team.
• Seek additional commercial opportunities, cost efficiencies and control, and manage risks.
• Instigate investigations into variance analysis, drilling down, interrogating, establishing root
• causes and providing insights, alongside the Accounting and Control team.
• Work in conjunction with the Accounting and Control team to attain key financial information,
• assisting data collation.
• Produce and evolve a monthly reporting pack
• Presenting relevant financial information at monthly department meetings, including
• overviews of the P&L performance versus Budget/Forecast, KPI's, risk & opportunities and
• non-financial indicators.
• Assist in the production of rolling P&L forecasts with strong functionality, data integrity and
• accuracy.
• Assist Head of Financial Planning and Analysis to achieve tight deadlines in delivering
• budget/forecast.
• Competitor analysis and market insight reports.

Skills & Experience

• Fully Qualified ACCA/CIMA with at least 2 years post-qualification experience ideally
• Highly collaborative with the ability to drive change
• Resilient and willingness to challenge the status quo / remove blockers
• Capability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organisation
• Pro-active, holding a continuous improvement mindset
• Positive can-do attitude and solution orientated
• Effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise and manage
• multiple concurrent tasks across multiple stakeholders to tight deadlines with minimal
• supervision is essential
• Advanced data analysis and forecasting / bid modelling experience
• Thorough, accurate and strong attention to detail, able to look at the bigger picture when
• appropriate
• Strong commercial and organisational acumen
• Demonstrated effective written and adaptive interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly particularly to non-finance stakeholders
• High standard of O365 skills (especially Excel & SharePoint)
• PowerBI experience preferred
• TMC or travel related background preferred (FMCG considered)