Head of Finance Business Partnering
Posted on 1 October 2024
100000
Permanent
Newbury , United Kingdom
Accountancy & Finance
26009
Opportunity description
Job Title:
Head of Finance Business Partnering
The opportunity has arisen for an outstanding candidate to lead a new Finance Business partnering function, in partnership with other finance teams. Initially with one direct report who will transfer from an existing team with future plans to grow the team going forward.
Primary responsibilities:
The overall purpose of this role is to help communicate central function performance to the relevant ExCo members (including key financial and non-financial metrics), using outputs from the other finance teams, and highlighting and agreeing actions that need to be taken with them. This role will work closely with the UK CFO from a finance and relationship management point of view, as well as with the senior leaders.
More specifically -
- Business partnering for Executive Committee team –
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- Become a key finance point of contact with Executive Committee members in the following areas-
- Opex management and decision support.
- Identifying and quantifying potential risks and opportunities to budgeted performance across Gammas cost centres.
- Adopting a “value for money” mindset and challenging cost centre leads as required.
- Identify potential inefficiencies and cost savings.
- Providing ad hoc insight and analysis.
- Create processes to enable Group-wide reporting of central functions
- Identify revenue and market growth opportunities on the back of these Exco relationships, culminating in
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- Business case preparation and review by working closely with other teams to pull all the information together (business teams, as well as other finance teams – Commercial/Procurement/Product)
- Return on investment analysis
- Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business, including product managers, operations, and development teams.
- Share knowledge/insights through the production and presentation of analysis & reports.
- Become a key liaison point between cost centre managers and the Finance team
- Help maximise the opportunities for improved operating expense managing arising from new functionality and processes delivered by current finance transformation projects (including a Microsoft 365 ERP and OneStream consolidation systems rollouts)
Key skills:
| Skill | Detail |
| Interpersonal |
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| Problem solving | • Able to analyse and draw conclusions from large, complex data sets but also able to provide support and opinions in areas where information may be limited or there are areas of ambiguity. |
| Decision making |
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| Innovation |
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| Communication |
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| Financial | • Qualified accountant with a strong academic background. |
Key relationships:
- UK CFO & Director of Group Finance
- Chief Technical Officer
- Chief People Officer
- Chief Marketing & Product Director
- Chief Operating Officer
- Group CFO
Experience and skills:
- Previous experience in the areas of finance business partnering in a complex fast moving environment.
- Experience of working in a large company and managing senior stakeholders across multiple departments.
- Comfortable switching from a ‘hands-on” and operational mindset and style to a broader commercial/strategic one as required.
- Extensive experience of MS Excel.
- Knowledge of the Power BI reporting package.
- Knowledge of SQL would be useful but not essential.
