Assistant Finance Business Partner

**Location**: Ellesmere Port, with home working and ad hoc travel to sites when required
**Salary**: Salary up to £34,000 + £4,400 company car/car allowance

**Contract**: Permanent
**Hours**: 37.5 hours

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to support the Fleet Repair Team of the business. This is a key role in providing high-quality data, pro-active insights and analysis across the fleet repair function, providing robust financial insight to enable informed decision making within the senior repair services team.

**What will you do?**
The Assistant Finance Business Partners are the link between finance and the business, providing business advice, decision support, cost control and performance analysis. They own the functional cost and revenue budget and periodic forecasts. This is a varied and fast-paced role, where ad hoc analysis forms a significant proportion of workload, and the ability to support, influence and challenge the decision-making process within the operations team is an essential attribute.

Responsibilities will include:

- Support the annual and periodic forecasting process for the Fleet Repair function, including the allocation to individual locations
- Review the available operational reports daily, draw out the key risks and opportunities and partner with the territory management team to ensure that these are acted upon
- Ensure all reports contain relevant insight and commentary
- Work with the central reporting function to ensure that reporting is fit for purpose and any new insight requirements are developed and productionised
- Provide guidance and support to enable the territory management teams to maximise revenue and control costs
- Identify and deliver opportunities that deliver material changes in business performance, promoting continuous improvement
- Present monthly functional and overall business performance updates to territory management, with a robust level of challenge
- Monitor transactional volumes at a location level to ensure that staffing levels are driving the optimum level of cost-efficiency
- Ownership and accountability for the accuracy of the monthly operating statement and production of KPI reporting
- Act as the territory query escalation contact for KPI’s, local P&L’s, bonuses, and labour
- Provide commercial support to the Fleet Repair Services Finance Business Partner as required
- Ad-hoc project work as required

**What’s in it for you?**

**Salary**:

- up to £34,000 plus a company car or car allowance, and other great benefits

**Annual leave**:

- 25 days plus bank holidays and an extra day off to celebrate your birthday

**Pension**:

- Aviva 5% Employer Contributions.

**Financial Benefits**:

- save-as-you-earn scheme, free life assurance and a range of national and local retailer discounts.

**Lifestyle & Wellbeing Benefits**:

- eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with an NHS Approved mental well-being mobile app.

**Motoring Benefits**:

- free motor accident assistance, discounted vehicle repairs, discounts on weekend vehicle hire and van hire and access to an employee vehicle-leasing scheme.

**Professional Development**:

- We are dedicated to developing everyone in our team, potential for study support towards AAT, ACCA, CIMA or similar qualifications if desired

**What you'll need to succeed**
- Experience in a management accounting or commercial analyst role would be beneficial
- Good at building relationships
- Strong analytics skills
- Stakeholder influencing and management
- Proven history of providing value-adding insight
- Strong with Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to handle detail while understanding the big picture

**What you need to do now