Finance Business Partner

1 month ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Bright Horizons Family Solutions Full time

**Job Title**:Finance Business Partner

**Location**:London (Central) or Northampton

**Job Type**:Hybrid / Full time / Permanent / Mon-Fri

**Salary**:Competitive (dependent on qualification/s and experience)

**The Role**

**Purpose of Role**:
This role will business partner the Work and Family Solutions Team at Bright Horizons. This exciting part of the business provides a range of services to our clients to help them combine work and family better. It’s a forward thinking and growing division with a range of exciting services such as emergency childcare, tutoring, client nursery partnerships and a parental leave toolkit.
This role will prepare, review, and analyse the financials for their area providing concise commentary on the P&L. They will provide relevant and timely information to key stakeholders to aid decision making and challenge performance. This role will be an integral part of implementing a commercial mindset within finance and will drive value adding analysis for their business partners.

**What we can offer you**

Our benefits include, but are not limited to;
- Flexible working and holiday entitlements
- Discounted childcare
- Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks
- Annual gala award evening
- Fantastic range of discounts on high street retailers, grocery stores, cinema tickets, holidays and more
- Wide range of wellbeing resources, supporting our teams for the ups and downs of daily life

**Why Bright Horizons?**

We’ve been voted Great Place to Work for the last 17 consecutive years, as well as being awarded the newly created Great Place for Wellbeing and Great Place for Women 2023.

Our support functions enable our nurseries to deliver the best possible care and education to over 10,000 children across the UK. Through this support, our nurseries can deliver excellence - with 98% of our 300+ portfolio being rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.

We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.

**What you will be doing**
- Building a strong relationship with the Work and Family team and other non-finance stakeholders.
- Monthly cost variance analysis to ensure all transactions are substantiate and accurate.
- Providing insightful information, challenging where appropriate and aiding decision making.
- Ensure robust controls around the Work and Family financials.
- Build on existing processes to make improvements and efficiencies.
- Understand and explore a range of client contract types, supporting with highlighting growth opportunities.
- Explore where clients are under utilising our service.
- Collaborate with the FP&A team to build a robust forecast/budget.
- Prepare and present financials for the Work and Family Group with value adding commentary.
- Explain complex information to non-financial colleagues and support them with finance-based queries.
- Support with business cases for new areas of the business.
- Completion of balance sheet reconciliations for relevant areas and relevant controls.
- Line management responsibilities.
- Perform ad hoc analysis as required.
- Interact with internal and external auditors.

**What we are looking for**
- Business partnering in a multi-client-based business.
- Influencing cross functionally and building relationships
- Ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.
- Driven self-starter and change maker.

**Qualifications**:

- Qualified or in the final stages of accounting exams (ACA / CIMA / ACCA of similar)



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