Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Morgan Philips Specialist Recruitment Full time

I am seeking a Finance Business Partner to report to the Head of Finance. The finance team is based in the London and Birmingham offices and comprises a team of 16. This is expected to grow to 20 in the near future. They are also going through an exciting transformation period and are implementing a new Oracle Finance and HR system.

With more areas of the business becoming data hungry, the Finance Business Partner will be the primary point of business area liaison with Finance and operate as an extension of Finance within the business area. As a member of the executive teams for the business area/s you are allocated, you will proactively support Business Area Leaders (BALS) and other Partners with their accountability for profit and loss delivery.

Key deliverables are to build financial understanding, insight / analysis and initiate action-focused financial performance improvement plans.

This is a full-time position based from Birmingham (or possibly London) and will be worked under our flexible-working 'WorkSmart' framework where you will have the option to share your time between the office with hybrid working (flexible, office 1 - 3 days per week).

Booths - flexible working spaces 2

**Responsibilities**:
The Finance Business Partner will work directly with business areas within my client acting as their de-facto finance director. They will be supported in that role by the finance team in general and key stakeholders within the business area.

Providing financial direction and advice to the business area and feeding back information to management as well as the finance team.

**Some key responsibilities are as follows**:
Financial direction

Projection of glidepath for P&L, balance sheet and capital

Consider and recommend ways to improve future growth and performance

Focus on specific variables within the business area such as unprofitable clients, non-payroll expenses, write-offs, charge out rates, productivity, etc.

Day to day budget management responsibility

Analysis of billing and debt management

Identification and oversight of efficiency and capacity enhancement initiatives

Collaboration with Finance to optimise financial treatment of investments

General strategic financial advice to the business area

Financial metrics Analysis

Analysis of income and expenditure

Activity-based expense analysis, allocating expenses to specific tasks and projects

In depth analysis of customer transactions with specific reference to life events within pension portfolios

Review of actuarial assumptions from an accounting perspective and their impact on the performance of the business area

Cashflow projections for separate business lines

Liaising with main finance function in development of financial reports to assist management decision making

Business Case Support

Business case preparation for new investment and proposition development, expense initiatives & business development opportunities

Benefits realisation lead for business cases within the specific business areas

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Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 18 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

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