Senior Finance Business Partner

1 month ago

ShorehambySea, United Kingdom Ricardo Full time

Our vision is to create

a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are currently looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our office in either Derby or Shoreham, supporting our Rail division. This position plays an integral role in developing and fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment, that seeks to deliver accurate, relevant, timely and cooperative reporting and integrated support to the operational and enabling functions.

Role Objective

The successful candidate will be responsible for the financial operations of the region, ensuring reporting accuracy, compliance with regulatory and internal requirements, and effective internal controls.Provide business partner support as a strategic thinker with robust financial expertise and leadership capabilities to help drive financial performance and support growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Provide Business Partner support to the regional senior leadership team through monthly reporting, forecasting, variance analysis and collaboration on strategic planning. Supervise and mentor the finance team in a way that fosters a collaborative and high-performing environment, including the provision of training and development opportunities. Responsible for the month end process, including timetable, reconciliations, project EAC approvals, revenue recognition, variance analysis and the performance native. Manage project status reporting, including oversight of the project review process, accuracy of finish dates, billing plans, and forecasting. Provide financial and commercial input and support for bidding and pricing, ensuring risk-assessed and commercially viable bids that enhance the likelihood of winning. Manage and participate in Business Unit Reviews using the PSR details to process and validate YTD results and maintain a risk and opportunities register to support the result. Responsible for working capital including forecasting., cash tracker and, AROC / Debtor improvement strategies. Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes , including working with the business to set targets and track performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities. Provide Senior Management oversight on all Internal and External Audits incorporating the internal governance requirements Review and approve the statutory and group reporting requirements including oversight of the intercompany, transfer pricing and cross charging process. In conjunction with the Finance Director, drive continuous improvement in financial processes and systems, and share the knowledge and expertise more broadly as required.

Behavioural Competencies

External Focus - Builds an externally focused culture. Settings Goals & Priorities - Sets priorities to achieve business goals and informs direction of business area. Working in Teams - A key player in building and maintaining positive team culture. Managing and Driving Performance - Continuously drives performance / builds a high performing team.

Required Technical Competencies

Accounting or relevant tertiary qualifications

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

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