Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Colt Technology Services Full time

Colt is the New Standard in high bandwidth network and voice services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. With a global reach but a deep local presence, Colt is big enough to deliver and small enough to care.

**Role title**:
**Finance Business Partner, Technology & Security**

**Function**

**Finance**

**Line Manager**

**Finance Director, Technology & Security**

**Location**:
**TBD**

**Role purpose**

This role is responsible for financial & commercial management and business partnering within the Technology & Security division in Colt. The Finance partner will act as a trusted commercial partner to the Senior Management Team of the division and play a pivotal role in understanding, controlling and transforming the cost base.

**Key accountabilities**
- Work with the relevant functional VP to develop and implement the strategy, whilst improving productivity, delivering transformation and profitability to drive business unit performance.
- Understand, anticipate and deliver internal and external customer needs.
- Accountable for the full cost base of the functions including fixed costs, capital expenditure and supporting insight, whilst supporting all commercial activity.
- Work across functions to drive improvements to existing investment governance processes, including driving a new benefits tracking mechanism
- Support the business to deliver profitable growth and fufil customer requirements.
- Act as a commercial finance lead and contribute to negotiating contracts.
- Build and develop effective relationships, with leadership teams, customers and key stakeholders
- Challenge the current ways of thinking and define innovative ways of working to best serve our customers and the business.
- Communicate effectively in a regional and divisional matrix structure to ensure Colt delivers targets
- Identify, analyse and implement opportunities and solutions to drive business performance.
- Partner with leadership to add value to decision making, whilst exhibiting exceptional analysis and insight to influence and have a real positive impact on the performance of the business.
- Use data and fact-based analysis to anticipate needs and provide insights to the business for competitive decision making.
- Work with FP&A and the business to provide insight and support the delivery of month end, forecasts and budgets.

**Role specific requirements**

**Skills & Experience**
- A proven track record of progressively delivering growth and managing end to end financial performance, preferably in a global Telco/Technology environment.
- Experience dealing with SaaS contracts, contract & commercial management ensuring we optimise the value generated from these contracts and minimise risks
- Proven ability to critically review and transform the cost base
- Able to operate in a fast paced and high-volume business with strong resilience and an ability to lead and effectively manage change.
- Proven commercial acumen and ability to contribute and drive decision making.
- Strong influential skills that leverage genuine engagement with cross functional and cross business teams to implement strategies and solutions for our customers and business.
- Proven ability to drive and meet specific metrics and goals.
- Builds productive and trusting relationships with employees, peers and leaders in a matrix organisation.

**Person Specifician**
- Strong networking ability across the company at all levels
- Displays solid judgement and has personal gravitas.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced, global and complex environment
- Excellent commercial acumen, results driven with attention to detail and high focus on performance.
- Ambitious, confident self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities in a calm and confident manner

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work life balance.

Some benefit examples are:

- Flexible working and relaxed dress code
- Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
- Flexible benefits scheme
- Access to a virtual business school for on-going learning
- Business mentoring

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