Senior Finance Business Partner

1 month ago

London, UK, United Kingdom Stanton House Full time

Stanton House are proud to be partnering with one of the UK's leading energy suppliers to source a Senior Finance Business Partner.


You will collaborate with stakeholders, developing compelling insight and presentations that influence partners on the path to value creation. You’ll support with pragmatic problem solving and be seen as a responsible thought leader in finance who is unafraid to challenge the business on course correction. You’ll be forward thinking and be able to anticipate, challenge and plan for changes within financial outlooks.

You’ll be self sufficient, make the harder judgement calls and know when to escalate. Your focus on delivering the right message and

You will understand the competitive landscape and bring a financial lens to strategic decision making & influence, and encourage scalable solutions with focus on long term financial health.

If you lead a team, you will enable rapid growth and identify areas for development. You’ll remain responsible but delegate responsibility and foster empowered thinking within a controlled framework / guiding set of principles.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnering

  • Partner with C-suite and LTs (VPs, Directors, HoDs) providing financial insight and challenge into strategic and tactical decisions as well as past business performance
  • Maintain a monthly cadence for an outlook, connecting with the People & Procurement teams for full, well rounded reviews. Advising the business on course correction if actual costs stray from budget, including working with the leadership team to devise plans to converge back to budget.
  • Working collaboratively with senior business leaders to prepare analysis to support and constructively challenge financial decision making. This is both as requested by the business, and also ad hoc where the business partnering team spots potential opportunities.

Budgeting

  • Contribute to the financial semi-annual budgeting process, working between the Business, people partnering and FP&A to ensure robust financial & FTE plans are delivered in line with agreed timescales, balancing stretch and credibility.
  • Working with the business through annual medium term strategic outlook processes to develop 3-5 year forecasts, and in particular supporting business leaders to develop industry leading team structures which allow for best-in-class operational leverage.
  • Understands and devises opportunities for cost base improvements, and presents these to the finance leadership team and the leadership team.

Investment appraisal & cost governance

  • Owning and leading the investment appraisal process, including business casing, pre-investment appraisal and post-investment reviews. Setting return on investment hurdles and ensuring cost governance over material projects.
  • Working with the tax team and the business to support R&D tax claims.

Representing the finance team

  • Representing the finance team in regular conversations with the business and liaising back with the individual specialist areas of the finance team on matters arising around the business. The candidate will update the finance leadership team on a regular basis on matters which they have become aware of and which impact the finance team.
  • Striving to improve the business and our finance processes to allow better insight and more focus on value adding activities

Systems: Excel / google sheets, Workday, Adaptive Planning

What You'll Need:

  • Finance professional with experience of solving business issues of similar scale and complexity
  • Ability to Interpret and assimilate multiple data sources to provide meaningful insight and appropriate recommendations and clear actions
  • Effectively communicating financial performance to operational colleagues to embed financial understanding within the business
  • Influence strategy and translate this into actionable programmes, opportunities or activities that result in improved profitability or risk mitigation
  • Able to manage multiple complex projects/processes simultaneously Commercially focused on ability to make fair returns from our customers


Location: London or Bristol (Hybrid Working)

Salary: £80,000

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