Finance Business Partner

Keoghs; Bolton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Keoghs is seeking a Finance Business Partner to enhance their finance function. This varied role will involve supporting operational teams, managing pricing, and producing financial reports. Candidates should possess a strong academic background and relevant accountancy qualifications, along with proven experience in business partnering.

Benefits

Davies Incentive Plan

25 days holiday per year (increase with service)

Family Cover Private Medical Insurance

Simply Health Care Cash Plan

WeCare – 24/7 online GP and wellbeing support

Death in Service

Critical Illness Cover

Pension Contribution

Employee Volunteering Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Strong academic background with a recognised accountancy qualification.
• Experience in business partnering and communication with non-financial colleagues.
• High level of IT literacy, specifically in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Providing financial support to Operations Directors.
• Assisting in bids and tenders including pricing support.
• Production of monthly financial reporting and forecasts.

Skills

Business Partnering

Pricing Management

Financial Reporting

Data Manipulation

MS Excel Proficiency

Education

Accountancy Qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

Power BI

VBA

Job description

Department: Business Support

Location: Bolton

Description

New Opportunity Varied Role
Keoghs, the Legal Solutions Division of the Davies Group, are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner to report to the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

This role is at the heart of the finance function giving an enthusiastic individual the opportunity to gain a full understanding of the organisation and to deliver the key decision makers with the financial information to make informed decisions.

This is an interesting, varied and challenging role that will involve providing the operational teams within Keoghs with a high standard of financial support. This will cover areas such providing pricing support for the submission of tenders, preparation of budgets at a detailed level and providing feedback on monthly performance to the Operational Leads.

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Key Responsibilities

Providing support to the Operations Directors and BUDs to manage their parts of the business, identifying opportunities, and providing challenge, to enhance each team’s gross margin
Assisting the operational teams in bids and tenders, including support to propose pricing and provision of challenge in pricing discussions to ensure the required gross margin in maintained
Production of monthly financial reporting in accordance with SLAs for both the Keoghs Exec and Davies Head Office.
Provision of regular forecasts and annual budgets of Operational performance.
To assist the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis in any ad hoc projects as required.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

A strong academic background and the holder of a recognised accountancy qualification, such as ACA, CIMA, ACCA.

Demonstrable experience of:

• Proven track record of Business Partnering and therefore having the ability to communicate with non-financial colleagues.

• Experience of owning pricing and tenders across multiple products and communicating pricing up to CEO level.

• Planning and executing operational and sales budgets.

• A high level of IT literacy including high proficiency in MS Excel.

• Data manipulation skills (Power BI, VBA, Excel on similar)


Benefits

• Davies Incentive Plan
• 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
• Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
• Simply Health Care Cash Plan
• WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
• Death in Service
• Critical Illness Cover
• PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
• Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
• Employee Resource Groups
• Employee Volunteering Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Tech Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loan*
• Gym Flex*
• Access to Online Discount Sites
• Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
• Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
• Discounts at local retail outlets

* after successfully completing probation