Finance Business Partner

3 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Claranet Full time

**About The Role**:
**Budgeting & Planning**
- Model impact of strategic initiatives and business cases for inclusion in the budget/forecast and strategic plan for Customer Experience & Managed Service and HR.
- Identify the key metrics, ratios, and relationships to feed into the Budget/forecast. Help the business in understanding these key metrics, ratios and relationships enabling them to be quantified for inclusion in the budget, tracked and report on.

**Monthly/Quarterly Performance Analysis**
- Support the management accounting team to ensure the accuracy of the P&L.
- Support the revenue and cost assurance manager to ensure revenue is maximised.
- Identify potential cost savings and operational efficiencies to enable Senior Management to improve company profitability.
- Support with staff capitalisation tracking and reporting.

**Profitability Analysis**
- Create and develop customer P&Ls for key customer accounts.
- Create and develop service profitability analysis to review services costs and identify cost saving opportunities.
- Undertake post deal reviews to compare actual profit on a deal to the original expectation. Draw out lessons learnt and drive improvement.
- Create and develop process to review cost of selling versus profit from delivery. Draw out lessons learnt and drive improvement.
- Drive automation in the preparation of profitability analysis.

**Support on Key Projects**
- Support and challenge the business on the creation of business cases for key investments or changes.
- Support on the systems transformation projects
- Drive increased automation and adoption of systems including the CRM and CPQ tools.
- To identify appropriate data to be reported in Business Intelligence tools such as Power BI and work with the BI team to implement this.

**Product Lifecyle**
- Support the end-to-end lifecycle planning of products from Lead to cash.

**Acquisitions**
- As required, provide financial support to fully integrate new acquisitions into the business.

**Leadership and Management**
- Provide guidance and mentorship to more junior members of the team to ensure their continued growth and development.
- Delegate work to the Finance Analysts helping them take a proactive role in commissions and the monthly trading analysis and other projects as required.
- Review work produced by the Finance Analysts to ensure accuracy and promote a culture of continuous learning.

**Teams to collaborate with**
- Management Accounting - to ensure accuracy of the P&L and obtain actuals for budget, forecast and analysis.
- Business Intelligence & Planning - to improve regular reporting and dashboards and identify areas for automation.
- Revenue and Cost Assurance - identify areas for review to maximise revenue or minimize cost.
- Customer Success and Growth - set commission policy and pay against it, budget setting.
- Portfolio, Alliances and Technology Practices - budget setting, identify areas for review and efficiency improvement, establish a single portfolio taxonomy, profitability analysis.
- Procurement, Legal & Compliance - to help resolve supplier or customer issues.
- Customer Experience & Managed Service - budget setting, identify areas for review and efficiency improvement, profitability analysis.

**About You**:
**Behavioural competencies - Organisational and behavioural fit**.
- Flexible and creative to take considered risks
- High attention to detail
- Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations
- Self-motivated and able to work under pressure
- Ability to travel to different sites and locations
- Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner.

**Critical competencies - Technical fit**
- Qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting in a similar sized business
- You will have the knowledge and experience to carry out complex tasks competently, confidently, and consistently.
- You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

**About Us**:
**About Claranet**

At Claranet, we’re experienced in implementing progressive technology solutions which help our customers solve their epic business challenges. We’re committed to understanding their problems, delivering answers quickly, and making a lasting impact to their business.

We are agile, focused and experienced in business modernisation. Our approach helps customers make genuine, significant shifts in their business strategy, to deliver financial savings, boost innovation, and create a resilient business. We continually invest in our people and the latest technologies, so our customers get peace of mind knowing that they have access to the best talent and services.

In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Glouces



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