Senior Finance Business Partner

6 months ago


Maidenhead, United Kingdom RWS Group Full time

Job Purpose:
The Senior Finance Business Partner (FBP) will be responsible for providing financial support to the divisional management team and for driving the financial performance of the business, ensuring finance involvement in the development of the division’s strategic direction. This will require you to provide insight into the business environment and the wider financial context. You will need to identify opportunities that will have a positive impact on value creation for the division.

You will report into and work closely with the Divisional Finance Director to support plans in key operational and strategic areas. This will involve interpreting and driving finance performance, advising on key business planning, trade-offs, and opportunities, and presenting a dynamic industry, competitors, and economic context.

**About Group Finance**

In joining RWS’s Finance team you will be a critical part of supporting a listed world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. RWS has growing revenues of over £750m through a combination of value accretive acquisitions and organic growth. Group finance, led by our Group CFO; Candy Davies, includes diverse teams across the globe operating in functions including business partnering, operational finance, specialist, and group functions. We cover a footprint of over 100 legal entities in 43 different countries worldwide.

It’s a very exciting time to join RWS Finance for an individual who enjoys change and making an impact As part of the overall RWS business strategy we are making a significant investment in upgrading our financial systems and processes to deliver enhanced reporting and control, more efficient processing enabling great value through enhanced business partnering and decision support.

Job Overview:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Action and support divisional strategy
- Develop strategic partnership with Divisional Finance Director as a trusted advisor
- Drive Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) outputs including business plans, project and investment appraisals using divisional data
- Challenge, highlight and investigate areas of opportunity for strategic recommendations
- Provide divisional reporting & analytics
- Contribute to the development and management of divisional strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts
- Perform variance analysis on financial performance against divisional plan
- Leverage business insights, scenario modelling and analysis to develop financial models and drive commercial decision-making and complex problem-solving
- Ensure divisional compliance and financial control
- Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards and internal policies and procedures
- Prepare accurate and timely financial statements and reports
- Ensure a robust control environment within divisional finance, adhering to internal controls and regulatory requirements
- Support continuous improvement in the Group
- Identify opportunities to improve existing financial processes
- Closely follow-up macro-economic developments and assess impacts toward business
- Focus on increasing analytics capabilities, including new initiatives to analyse data
- Collaborate with other teams

**Skills & Experience**
- 3+ years FP&A or finance business partnering experience
- Professional certified qualification (CFA/CPA/CA/AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent)
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline
- Strong English language skills
- Expert knowledge in business analysis, analysing large data sets and information management
- Experience in data modelling, and simplifying complex data into compelling, clear, and actionable insights using Excel and reporting tools
- Advanced MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret customer and financial data
- Working knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
- Strong understanding of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant FBP activities
- Strong digital literacy with financial analysis and modelling skills
- Commercial mind-set with an ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to lead by example, hold teams, customers, and partners to account

Life at RWS:
At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world wher



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