EMEIA Sales Finance Business Partner

Apple; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a Finance Business Partner to support its sales team. The role requires strong analytical skills to drive growth and present business performance to stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have exceptional presentation and organization skills, with a preference for candidates holding a finance-related degree. Join a diverse team and make a significant impact in a high-performance environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to articulate data as action-oriented insights.
• Strong presentation skills with credibility.
• Planning and organization skills to preempt challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide critical input to drive growth ambitions.
• Report, analyze, and present business performance.
• Build robust business cases for investments.

Skills

Highly analytical

Accomplished presentation skills

High standard of planning and organisation

Education

Degree / MBA / Professional Finance Qualifications

Tools

Excel

GBI / Business Objects

Job description

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined - and now can't imagine living without. If you're motivated by the idea of making a real impact, and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, a career with Apple might be your dream job!

You will become a member of the Sales Finance team at Apple. With approximately 150 employees based across 4 locational hubs within EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), we create value, collaborating with many teams to provide outstanding commercial and financial support. We set the bar high; go out of our way to help others; share knowledge; filter out noise to focus on the essential; encourage the very best from ourselves and the team; and drive the right course of action. To do all of this you will be an excellent communicator, collaborator and innovator, with a passion for debate and inclusion.

Description

As the Finance Business Partner to one of Apple's sales team you will provide critical input to help drive the growth ambitions for this area of the business. You will report, analyse & present the business performance and highlight key insights, trends and issues as they emerge. You will support analysis with recommendations for improvement and action to further accelerate growth or take corrective action to mitigate risk. You will build robust business cases to support Apple's investments in this area. Investments could include terms and condition changes, special programmes to support growth, point of sale fixture investments, headcount or capital investments as well as tactical actions to drive short term performance. You will take ownership of some of the finance process infrastructure related to this area of the business also. There is a strong requirement to be articulate within Apple's reporting systems & tools and be able to extract data, format and analyse it then present it in a clear way highlighting key messages. You will be the interface between the numbers and your sales business partner. You will need to build strong relationships with teams both within and outside of Sales Finance and use this to help bring insights, influence the team direction and drive change where needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Highly analytical, with the ability to articulate quantitative and qualitative data as meaningful, action-oriented insights, and offer an opinion or recommendations to the business
• Accomplished presentation skills, being able to build and tell your story in a structured way, with credibility and conviction
• High standard of planning and organisation, preempting questions, challenges, and follow-up actions before they arise

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable working with complex, unstructured data sets in Excel to visualise findings
• Experience working with GBI / Business Objects & other financial performance measurement systems is beneficial.
• Degree / MBA / Professional Finance Qualifications favourable