Finance Business Partner

About The Role
**Finance Business Partner**
**Tamworth**
**Salary range c.£50,000 dependent on experience, plus bonus and additional benefits**
**Full Time, permanent position**
**Are you a Qualified Accountant with exceptional commercial awareness? Experience of providing financial analysis and advice to senior management? Looking for a role where you can make a difference? We’d really like to meet you**
We’re looking for that special someone to join our established and successful company as a **Finance Business Partner**. You’ll be joining **phs** Group, the largest hygiene services provider in the UK with 120,000 customers in more than 300,000 locations. If you have extensive experience in providing meaningful financialanalysis, input and advice and have excellent communication skills to deliver incisive and clear management information, we’d like you to come and be part of our success.
This role is varied and interesting and you will play a key part in the overall leadership, management, and growth of the business. In return, you will receive an excellent salary, with bonus, car allowance and additional benefits for doing a role that youwill really enjoy with a company that is innovative and working towards helping our communities and the environment. Here are some of the areas you will be getting involved with
**The Role of Finance Business Partner with phs Direct will involve**:

- Providing proactive and meaningful financial analysis, input and advice to the management team and Group CFO on both operational issues and commercial decision-making; including pricing policy, investment opportunities, acquisitions, business cases andcapex requirements, and the tracking of costs and benefits.
- Aiding the management team in the orderly, profitable development of the business within the framework of business plans approved by the Board.
- Providing incisive and user-friendly management information to the Commercial Director and wider management team, identifying business implications in complex data or information, interpreting variances and trends in financial data, and relating these tooperational performance.
- Supporting with budget preparation and monthly trading packs, preparing the Division’s monthly trading reviews and board reports and presenting meaningful results to the Group CEO/CFO.
- Co-ordinating the Division’s budget and forecasting processes, providing meaningful analysis and commentary to the Divisional management team and the Group finance department.
- Ensuring that a robust financial control infrastructure and environment exists at all times and that all systems and reporting operate to the highest standards with financial data accuracy being key.
- Working with the Commercial Director and management in the development of pricing policies to deliver new business on acceptable commercial terms (including appropriate margin and risk evaluation) and on wider business processes to seek and improve operationalefficiency and divisional profitability.
- Working closely with the phs Group Credit Control team to meet their standards and targets, as well as the phs Direct sales and leadership teams.
**The right person for the role of Finance Business Partner with phs Direct**
- For this role, we’re looking for a proactive self-starter, based in the Midlands area, who is a qualified accountant with a recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA).
- We’re looking for someone with Business Partner experience within a senior management team, who understands the key business drivers that contribute to value.
- You’ll have experience of sustaining profitability, quality and service standards using key performance indicators and ratios to identify potential issues before they materialise.
- We want someone who can demonstrate commercial awareness and understanding, without compromising financial conduct, who ensures that business opportunities are appropriately evaluated to minimise risk and sustain/improve profit margins.
- You’ll have exceptional communication skills and an open and honest approach to ensure that the right messages are cascaded to the senior management team, communicating positively, who can constructively challenge senior managers to prevent any harm tothe business.
- We would like someone with a broad financial management background in a business-to-business multi-site (or similar) service organisation.

**In return for your commitment and expertise as Finance Business Partner with phs Direct**:

- A competitive salary range of c.£50,000 depending on experience
- Attractive bonus scheme
- Company car or car allowance
- A minimum of 31 days holiday including Bank Holidays, plus a holiday buy / sell scheme
- Amazing savings through phs Perks with discounts from major retailers and supermarkets
- Pension and Life Assurance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity
- Free onsite parking
- We offer accredited ILM training through external and in-house training
- Great career and development opportunities in an established and successful company

**About us**
**phs Group** was founded in 1963 and we are the leading provider for Hygiene Services in the UK, Spain and Ireland with over 120,000 customers across 300,000 locations incorporating numerous businesses during its 59 years of business.
**phs**Direct supplies thousands of customers with a wide range of washroom consumables and products ranging from cleaning materials and paper products to hand dryers. With over 25 years of experience, our team can provide the expertise and knowhow to help you save money on your consumables spend, delivered straight to your door.