Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Marks Sattin Full time

**Job Title**:Finance Business Partner

**Location**:Central Leeds

**Salary**:£40,000 - £45,000

**Hours**:Full Time, permanent

**Working Model**:Hybrid working

**Role Overview**

We are working with our client to find a Finance Business Partner that will own and deliver the company-wide budget and forecasting cycles for their business, with an online and physical retail presence in the UK, Europe and the US.

You will work collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation to deliver budgets and forecasts to agreed timetables and use your extensive budgeting experience and strong technical skills to deliver an accurate and on-time budget. This will incorporateP&Ls, balance sheet and cash flow along with all associated analysis, articulation and reporting.

This role provides business-critical support to both the internal Executive team and external stakeholders and as such, carries notable levels of both accountability and visibility across the business at all levels, including having full accountability forweekly cash flow forecasting and ID facility management.

**Essential for the role**
- CIMA or ACCA qualified
- Hands-on experience of building, maintaining and developing financial budgeting models including P&Ls, balance sheet and cash flow
- Demonstrable experience of being solely accountable for delivering budgets and forecasts to immovable deadlines
- Proven experience of Excel modelling with confidence
- Experience of analysing and interpreting large amounts of operational and finance data and have the ability to translate this into compact and meaningful audience-appropriate challenge
- Able to effectively lead, support and develop two direct reports
- The ability and desire to drive knowledge of PowerBI across the business along with supporting development of Business Analyst in this area

**Key Responsibilities**

Budgets and Forecasts
- Own the business-wide budget and forecast cycles, delivering both with unstinting accuracy to immovable deadlines
- Build, maintain and develop the forecasting input files and all associated modelling
- Produce, validate and evaluate comprehensive P&Ls, balance sheet and cash flow including board presentation files and associated commentary
- Challenge each input and output throughout the process to deliver budgets and forecast that align with the company's strategic aims
- Become an expert in the analysis of our business, building and updating financial and operational models in order to engage and support the operational teams

Cash Flow and Treasury Management
- Cash management responsibility for all bank accounts including UK & Overseas
- Ownership of weekly cash flow forecast, cash planning and ID facility management
- Identification and investigation of variances from forecast prior to distribution
- Ensure full compliance of all banking requirements

Reporting
- With the support of two direct reports be accountable for all daily, weekly and monthly KPI reporting produced within Finance
- Lead and develop the reporting team within Finance
- Define, implement and deliver timely, accurate and consistent MI in to continually drive and improve business performance including product category reporting
- Produce accurate and insightful reporting packs, ad hoc analysis and scenario modelling to support impactful discussions by linking reporting to business strategies
- Analyse sales performance and margins, contributing to a 'high challenge, high support' environment
- Aggregate, analyse and distil vast amounts of data to be able to identify key issues and actionable opportunities in a timely manner
- Understand and interpret business performance against the market, using internal and external information to learn from historical performance and identify future opportunities for success
- Produce weekly and monthly trade reports with accurate, insightful and audience-appropriate commentary for banks, shareholders and pension trustees
- Implement and develop extensive cost centre and headcount reporting

Challenge and Control
- Monitor and challenge business performance - measured against budget, forecasts and other benchmarks - to continually drive the business forward
- Assist in embedding strong financial controls within both the finance and operational teams, from sales through to costs
- Develop and drive stock control and understanding of the same across the business and work extensively with the operational teams to deliver greater stock efficiency
- Improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting of business performance to ensure each report produced delivers its intended impact

**How to Apply**

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