Finance Business Adviser

The Finance Business Advisor plays a key role to advise and support to the internal departments to effectively manage their projects with external clients. Providing on-demand financial advisory support to these internal departments
- Location: Manchester
- Salary £26,000 - £28,000
- Full time, permanent role
- Hybrid working
- Benefits include:
Excellent career development and opportunities
Flexible benefits that suit your needs : holidays, health and wellbeing, insurance, savings and discounts.

**Your key responsibilities**
- You will outreach to internal departments based on analysis of generated and customised reports and take responsibility for ensuring all queries are resolved to suitable completion
- Provide guidance on local policy and leading practices
- Facilitate training for effective financial management practices
- Contribute to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and providing support to other team members
- Review open items in their ticketing system, prioritise follow up activities and schedule team meetings for the week.

Spend scheduled time taking calls / chats from client servers - which includes activities such as:

- Reviewing pricing plans
- Advising on targets
- Ensuring internal departments are properly prepared for client negotiations from a financial perspective
- Provide instruction and guidance on estimate to complete processes and corresponding financial impacts

**Skills and attributes for success**
- Professional approach with a strong understanding of the client server perspective and able to view issues apathetically
- Ability to solve problems and provide a credible solution
- Confident to challenge where appropriate
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Vigorous time management skills and able to balance multiple priorities by considering risk, importance and level of urgency
- Eagerness to learn quickly, be proactive and share knowledge
- Experience in translating technical system "jargon" into business relevant terms so that concepts are understandable to client serving teams
- Excellent written, oral and virtual communication skills with the confidence to assist with delivering presentations, training material and knowledge sharing
- Assurance to deliver challenging messages and drive communication to a mutual understanding in a professional manner

**To qualify for the role, you must have**
- Minimum two years' experience in a client driven professional environment in a financial/business capacity
- Experience working with customers remotely
- Used to working in a fast paced environment with a strong work ethic
- Ability to interact well with people at all levels within the firm and build strong relationships
- Strong IT skills - Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and SharePoint
- Desire to thrive in and adapt to a fast changing and high activity environment

**Ideally you'll also**
- Either have a finance related degree, be studying for an accountancy qualification or experience working for a professional service or consultancy environment
- Be innovative, confident and creative thinker with ability to make quick decisions
- Have the ability to think on your feet, use initiative and judgement to make informed decisions