Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


United Kingdom Ricardo Full time

Role: Finance Business Partner
Location: Harwell, Oxfordshire (hybrid)
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
We are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner t o provide excellent financial support and information to the practice areas at all levels including Practice Director, Business Area Managers and Project Managers/Directors, as well as senior finance management. To enable effective financial management of teams and contracts, and support in the achievement of the Business Unit's financial targets and growth.
Develop the relationships with practice management, as a Business Partner, providing first line finance support, insight, and direction to practice management.
Play a lead role in the delivery of the P&L and Working Capital objectives for the practice, with a strong involvement in the management accounting process. In particular, interaction with the Project Manager community, understanding and reviewing project performance and forecast costs to complete. To include variance analysis for key P&L Accounts and Working Capital metrics, focussing on commercial validity and integrity of financial information.
Provide insight, support and constructive challenge to Project Financial Performance Reviews.
Provide financial analysis and insight in the monthly performance reviews, budgeting and forecasting processes, working with operational management to consolidate, analyse and understand the results prior to submission and presentation.
Provide high quality, accurate and timely support and analysis on finance related matters, deal with queries and review procedures.
Provide financial support for tenders and bids for new business.
Completion of Monthly Management accounts for Business Unit.
Liaising with commercial, sales and other central teams, as well as supporting the audit process, as required.
Supporting Business Managers in the commercial modelling for large proposals.
Supporting Practice Directors' and Business Managers' monthly reporting requirements by directly inputting monthly and YTD analysis into standard report templates.
Qualified or final stages of study (CIMA/ACCA)
Relevant financial/commercial experience
Solid Excel skills (e.g. Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.



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