Commercial Finance Business Partner

1 month ago

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom ENGINEERINGUK Full time
Finance Business Partner (12 Month Fixed Term Contract or Permanent)

Transforming the National Lottery for the Greater Good
About Us:
We are Allwyn UK, a leading lottery operator with a strong presence in the UK and Europe. Our mission is to create a new experience for the National Lottery, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and innovative approaches to drive positive change.

Role Purpose:
• Provide strategic financial support to the Commercial Finance Team

• Collaborate with Senior Finance Manager on ad-hoc projects

• Serve as a trusted business partner to the Technology department, delivering value-added decision support and insights

• Lead financial planning and analysis for strategically important business initiatives, ensuring clear visibility into progress towards business and financial targets

• Develop and manage the annual budget and re-forecasts for Technology

• Continuously monitor financial risks and opportunities, providing robust analysis and recommendations

• Analyze and present financial data to senior stakeholders, ensuring accurate and timely reporting

• Provide financial guidance and support to business partners on a wide range of ad-hoc queries

• Work closely with Financial Accounts to ensure month-end processes are accurate and efficient

• Drive business change initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve processes and enhance business performance

• Collaborate with HR to improve visibility into overall resource levels, providing clear reporting to senior management

• Perform ad-hoc analysis and support business partnering across all cost areas

Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as a trusted business partner to the Technology business area, providing financial analysis, advice, and proactive support

• Collaborate with Senior Finance Manager on ad-hoc projects

• Drive improvements in reporting, processes, and system utilization

• Manage the reporting of overheads, challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to improve financial performance

• Review team structures and vacancies, ensuring managers remain within approved budgets

• Ensure accurate cost reporting at month-end

• Prepare the annual budget and re-forecasts for Technology, working closely with team managers to understand team structures and resource requirements

• Provide financial leadership on key business projects, ensuring adherence to financial governance and preparing business cases for senior management

• Provide quality ad-hoc and regular analysis to inform management decisions

• Work closely with HR to ensure accurate headcount reporting, presenting a clear picture to senior management

• Proactively identify opportunities to challenge current processes and assumptions

• Build strong relationships across the finance team and wider business

• Drive and implement the business change agenda, focusing on simplification and agile working, and sharing best practices across the organization

Key Skills and Experience:
• Advanced Excel and system skills, with BPC (SAP Business Planning and Consolidation) experience preferred

• Proactive self-starter, able to work in a fast-paced environment

• Customer Focus - Maximizes personal contribution to the business to deliver on time and right first time

• Personal Integrity - Matches words with actions to build trust and respect

• Drive - Strives to achieve results through determination and commitment

• Developing Self/Others - Creates or contributes to an environment in which self and others are motivated to learn and develop

• Analyzing and Decision Making - Analyzes problems thoroughly and makes good timely decisions, supporting others' decision making through insightful analysis

• Managing Performance - Proactively takes responsibility for personal development, supports and challenges peers to achieve their full potential, and helps others by overcoming barriers

• Gaining Commitment - Energizes and influences others to get the job done and uses relationships to deliver great results

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex issues in a simple way

• Proven business partnering skills

• Commercial focus

• Passionate business partner who is result-oriented, analytical, and able to drive improvements

• A change agent who contributes positively towards cultural change and ways of working and simplification

• Experience in SAP and budgeting and reporting tools

Why Allwyn UK?
We are committed to creating a workplace that is inclusive, diverse, and supportive of all employees. Our Social Value framework ensures that we operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner, and we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Join Our Journey:
Come and be part of our exciting transformation journey, shaping the future of the National Lottery and making a real difference in the lives of our customers and stakeholders.

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