Branch Business Partner

5 months ago


Farnham Royal, United Kingdom HITACHI EUROPE LTD. Full time

**Description**

**Company Overview**

HEU is also responsible for managing a Shared Services Group that provides the Company's business units with a range of innovative and effective common services that deliver value, create ‘lean’ processes and support growth and development - including HR, IT, Legal, Finance & Accounting, Corporate Communications & Sustainability, and Business Development.

**What you’ll be doing**

To strengthen our Finance & Accounting team, we're looking for a Branch Business Partner

This role will be responsible for providing financial information and analysis for the Hitachi Europe Branch entities and ensure that the results are recorded accurately. This will include partnering stakeholders around the business. This role reports to the Head of FP&A.
- Review the results for the Hitachi Europe branches, ensuring that the results are accurate and recorded timely.
- Responsible for the Month-end and quarter-end close for Hitachi Europe branches. Review journals posted by near and offshore teams.
- Ensure a full understanding and analysis of monthly expenses
- Investigate any variances to budget and prepare commentary to present to the Head of FP&A and Hitachi Europe Finance Director
- Investigating and advising on accounting queries from the business and wider finance team.
- Ensuring compliance with IFRS and Hitachi Accounting Policies as part of the monthly closing process
- Supporting requests from the tax team and other departments
- Support the team in the Japan head office in understand variances to plan and business direction.
- Ensuring appropriate revenue recognition.
- Supporting internal and external audit review
- Supporting with ad hoc transactions and projects
- Work closely with senior stakeholders in the business units to identify opportunities for increasing support delivered by the Business Partner team and ensure these are delivered effectively.
- Working closely with the country financial controllers/finance managers where relevant
- Balance sheet reconciliation review where appropriate
- Support the introduction and roll out of the new S4 Hana and SAP Analytics cloud tools.

**What you bring to the team**

We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. The role will be a mixture of remote-hybrid work with somedays/week working at Hitachi Office (Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, SL2 4HD, United Kingdom)
- Ideally ACA / ACCA / CIMA (or equivalent) qualified accountant, or part qualified
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to develop and sustain strong working relationships with the business and across the Finance function
- Should be able to work as part of wider team whilst being a self-starter to work on individual projects.
- Experience of operating in a matrix structure
- Ability to work and effectively communicate with senior-level business partners
- Excellent business judgment, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Strong demonstrated use of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

**Benefits Package**

Along with a market competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme, employees have the option to work flexibly in line with our hybrid working model and we would be happy to discuss this with you during the hiring process.

**Company Funded Benefits**
- Generous holiday entitlement - with the option to buy up to an additional 5 days per year
- A Holiday Banking scheme allowing you to bank untaken holiday to use another year
- Group Personal Pension
- Private Medical Insurance with self-funded option to cover family members
- Employee Assistance Programme available to all employees
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Study support

Voluntary Benefits (funded by employee) including;
- Cycle To Work scheme
- Gym Membership
- Dental Insurance with option to include dependent children
- Health screening
- Dining card

**Our Values**

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:
Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge

If, like us, you’re motivated by delivering first class services, thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment and want to help Hitachi to drive social innovation, we’d love to hear from you.



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