Senior Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom UCAS Full time

About the Role

The Senior Finance Business Partner will provide a commercially focused finance business partnering service across UCAS' business units, in support of delivering the UCAS strategy. This role will be responsible for ensuring that the impact of decisions is understood, performance is tracked, and outcomes are explored.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Business Partnering: Ensure that the impact of decisions is understood, performance is tracked, and outcomes are explored.
  • Influence Decisions: Shape strategy and the direction of the business to ensure the mission is delivered along with key operational, commercial, and financial targets.
  • Support Business Planning: Assist in the development of business plans, forecasts, financial models, and business cases to inform decisions.
  • Product Profitability: Develop, embed, and maintain the product profitability model to be more forward-looking, automated, and system-driven.
  • Partnerships and Acquisitions: Partner with Product Managers to understand product margins, profitability, and how this impacts the strategic direction of our products.
  • Financial Projects: Operate as a strategic change agent in relation to financial projects, gaining buy-in and engagement from a range of stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements:

  • Qualified Accountant or equivalent experience with excellent knowledge and understanding of financial accounting principles and processes.
  • Demonstrable experience of successfully completing the implementation of a number of process or systems improvement projects.
  • Experience of partnerships and acquisitions.
  • Outgoing, persuasive, and a confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Ability to analyse and report at a strategic and operational level in a concise and agile manner to suit the audience.
  • Confident and organised to lead projects in a structured way.
  • Highly proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Package:

  • Salary - up to £60,000.
  • 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and bank holidays).
  • Flexibility - UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees.
  • A generous pension scheme.
  • Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox.
  • Internal training and development.
  • Subsidised gym and café.
  • Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme.

Join the UCAS Team:

UCAS is a leading provider of education services, and we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced finance professional to join our team. If you are a motivated and ambitious individual with a passion for finance and business partnering, we would love to hear from you.



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