Finance Business Partner

7 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.
- Challenge key assumptions and advise the SLT on creating an achievable budget.
- 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.
- Establish a revenue to headcount capacity model to be used for budget and to trigger hiring throughout the year if revenue is not in line with budget.

**Monthly/Quarterly Performance Analysis**
- Work with the SMT to identify and implement actions to ensure each practice meets its budget.
- Work with the SMT to develop reporting packs over time to ensure they continue to provide relevant and useful information.
- Identify potential cost savings and operational efficiencies to enable Senior Management to improve company profitability.
- Support Portfolio, Alliances and Technology Practices team to develop and improve resourcing models, report and measure Operating KPIs.
- Track on an ongoing basis budget assumptions/initiatives and business case performance against plan.

**Profitability Analysis**
- Establish and support the creation/development of robust and repeatable methodologies for a customer P&L for key customer accounts.
- Establish a robust and repeatable methodology to review service profitability and minimise cost.
- Support preparation of post deal reviews to compare actual profit on a deal to the original expectation. Draw out lessons learnt and drive improvement.
- Establish and support the creation of methodologies to measure the cost of selling a deal 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.

**Commission**
- Oversee and check that commission payments are calculated accurately, approved in accordance with policy and statements issued on a timely basis.
- Be the escalation point for commission queries.

**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 simult

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