Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom FGH (Freemans Grattan Holdings) Full time

About the Role

As a key member of the Finance Directorates senior management team, this integrated functional business partnering role is responsible for all financial matters relating to the partnered department. The successful candidate will be a senior and valued member of that departmental management team, delivering month-end reporting and commentaries, planning responsibilities, and commercial support while ensuring appropriate controls and financial disciplines are in place. Additionally, they will provide insight and challenge to enhance decision-making and improve commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the Director and senior management team to provide financial analysis and information to enable informed decision-making.
  • Actively seek out opportunities to improve business performance and obtain buy-in from stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain schedules for financial performance, financial simulations, business cases, and project accounting, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Ensure appropriate reporting is in place and provide insight into key performance indicators (KPIs).

Financial Planning and Forecasting

  • Deliver regular financial forecasts and budgets, including packs and supporting analysis, ensuring timely reviews and stakeholder buy-in.
  • Own the forecast timetable and ensure all reviews and deadlines are maintained, managing stakeholders and updating them accordingly.
  • Align the process with the wider FGH planning cycle and drive the integration and implementation of seasonal planning within the business function.
  • Actively seek out opportunities to improve and simplify the forecast process, including cash flow and balance sheet dimensions.

Month-End Reporting and Commentaries

  • Deliver accurate and timely month-end accounts with commentaries, working with business stakeholders to understand variances and risks/opportunities.
  • Liaise with reporting teams to ensure numbers are understood and onward commentary is provided, appropriate, timely, and insightful.
  • Manage internal and external audit interactions and ensure appropriate schedules are in place.

Leadership and Relationships

  • Represent Finance in senior team forums.
  • Manage staff, undertaking regular one-to-ones and contributing to annual performance management processes.
  • Build relationships across the business and Group, earning trust and displaying FGH values.
  • Provide financial leadership and ensure controls and disciplines are adhered to.

About You

Role-Related Skills, Specialist Knowledge, and Experience

  • Good commercial understanding of business and retailing.
  • Previous role held, work placement, or part-time role in a commercial or retail environment.
  • Business partnering experience with a strong sense of customer focus and objective challenge.
  • Professional qualification with 2 years PQE (internal candidates may be considered at a lower level of PQE with appropriate experience).
  • Production of month-end accounts.
  • Production of end-to-end budgets/forecasts.
  • Retail or consumer business experience.
  • Strong Excel and modelling skills, including tables, spreadsheets, graphs, etc.
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills.
  • Ability to understand key business cost drivers, experience of profitability and decision support modelling.
  • Ability to forge effective business relationships with colleagues across the business at all levels.
  • Good relationship building skills but ability to be objective and challenge in a positive manner.
  • Attention to detail and ability to deliver reporting and budgeting to timetable.
  • Staff management skills if responsible for team members.

Qualifications and Professional Development/Memberships

  • Financial qualification, CIMA, ACCA, ACA.
  • Maths and English grade C or above, or equivalent.

Personal Attributes

  • Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines with high levels of accuracy.
  • Personable but professional, with good relationship building skills.

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