Finance Business Partner Group Support · Aldgate Tower · Hybrid Remote

2 weeks ago

United Kingdom Gravita Business Services Ltd. Full time

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting .

As the Finance Business Partner , you will play a pivotal role in driving Revenue and Contribution and supporting decision-making across Service Lines within the organization. You will act as a bridge between finance and the Service Lines, ensuring alignment of financial goals with overall company objectives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Commercial Reporting: Leading the Financial element of Service Line meetings, identifying areas of concern and opportunities for Contribution Margin improvement (jobs with large WIP balances and low recoverability, teams with low utilization, etc. Following up on any actions arising from these meetings.
  • WIP Accounting: Responsible for ongoing monitoring of WIP balances, identifying recoverability concerns, following up with Partners as appropriate to agree recoverability plans where possible. Ensuring the month end WIP balance is correctly calculated.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting: Partnering with FP&A and Service Line leads to agree forecasts/ budgets by Service Line, investigating variances against these forecasts and agreeing mitigating action where possible.
  • Contribution Management: Regular meetings and correspondence with Partners with recoverability issues to drive improvement. Ensuring compliance with Group policies on WIP write-offs, quoting processes, billing schedule/ payment terms and other matters.
  • Pricing: Partnering with Service Line leads to build standard pricing models and leading rate-card review process to maximise pricing leverage
  • Utilisation: Monitoring resourcing levels by Service Line to ensure high utilization and supporting Service Line leads in decision-making on staffing levels
  • Working Capital: Identifying variances against billing and WIP targets, agreeing actions to improve billing e.g. enforcement of direct debits, billing schedules.
  • KPI Reporting: Reporting on Partners KPIs monthly.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

  • CIMA, ACCA or ACA Qualified with five years post qualified experience
  • Experience in a professional services business either an Accounting firm or e.g. Marketing Services
  • Advanced Excel Skills
  • Ideally prior experience in a PE environment
  • Taking a data driven approach to everything;
  • A real aptitude for working with numbers;
  • Excellent ability to make informed decisions; and
  • Confident communication and presentation skills.
Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Nitty Gritty

  • Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50% of your time across the month home based and the other 50% office-based)
  • Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday
  • Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.
  • Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
  • It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).
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