Finance Business Partner

Imperial Civil Enforcement Solutions Limited; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading parking management firm in Bristol is seeking a Finance Business Partner. In this hybrid role, you will support business leaders with financial reporting and business planning. Candidates should be professionally qualified with strong Excel skills, organizational abilities, and experience in reporting. Offers a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, and benefits package including private medical insurance and a pension matched to 5%.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays

Discretionary bonus scheme

Pension - matched to 5%

Private medical insurance

Life assurance scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified with at least 3 years post qualification experience.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and a hands-on approach to finance.
• Deep knowledge of accounting principles and financial/management information systems.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Unit Leaders to develop business plans, priorities and forecasts.
• Internal and external reporting including statutory audit of annual report.
• Review of monthly Balance sheet and P&L.

Skills

Strong organisational abilities

Advanced Excel

Strong analytical skills

High level of numeracy

High computer literacy

Education

CIMA, ACA, ACCA, ACMA

Tools

Microsoft Great Plains

NetSuite

Job description

Job Summary

Imperial is one of the UK's largest and most experienced providers of parking, environmental and traffic management systems.

Imperial is part of Modaxo, a global organization bringing together businesses that collectively focus on advancing new technologies and innovations for people transportation. With more than 40 companies representing over 30 brands, Modaxo comprises over 3,300 people, operating from almost 40 countries around the world.

As an employer we are committed to cultivating a friendly and exciting working environment, with huge emphasis on employee engagement. We can offer the sense of social community often associated with a small, local business; combined with the expected advantages of working for a far larger employer: great benefits; dedication to identifying talent; and huge investment in staff development.

Job Description

Job Purpose
Imperial is looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to support the Business Leader; this is a commercial role with a focus on high-quality reporting and especially on adding value to the business and impacting results.

This is a hybrid position, and you will be required to attend our Bristol office at least twice per week and will involve occasional travel to our Northampton office.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a business partner by supporting Business Unit Leaders and functional managers to develop clear business plans, priorities and forecasts in line with our specialized KPIs. Providing financial support and monthly reports to Functional Heads
• Internal and external reporting including monthly/ quarterly/annual group reporting and statutory audit of the annual report
• Assist project teams to guide their focus onto key performance issues and help them measure their impact and improvement.
• Review of monthly Balance sheet and P&L
• Provide Support to the sales team on Tender/bid submission - scenario planning creating P&L & key KPIs
• Lead quarterly forecasts and leveraging our proprietary metrics to ensure high business performance
• Develop Inter company relationships so that we align QSRs and forecasts with them and prevent missing anything that will effect the businesses QSR
• Prepare and review financial models and proposals on an ad hoc basis to support the decision making process across a range of commercial issues
• Preparation of monthly Management reports, KPIs and variance analysis
• Reconcile, maintain and validate multiple balance sheet account reconciliations using Blackline
• Develop and improve finance and project systems
• Calculation of the Company Bonus
• Complete €1m checklists for large tender/bids
• Project champion of implementation of new finance system and be the business super-user on key modules
• Support internal and external audits and yearly statutory fillings
• Lead best practices to processes, people and systems to affect revenue, profitability and cashflow, to improve operating efficiency and performance
• Lead and implement introduction of new systems and processes such as new financial systems, expense management and other reporting systems

Additional Activities

• Take on company-wide finance tasks as allocated from time to time
• Support financial team providing day-to-day assistance as required
• Ad hoc financial analysis in support of the preparation of management accounts
• Travel will be required

Personal Specification

Knowledge and Skills required:
The ideal candidate will be / have:

• Professionally qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with at least 3 years post qualification experience.
• Strong organisational abilities, experience of working to tight deadlines and a hands-on approach to finance.
• Advanced Excel including Pivot tables, Look-up functions and similar is essential for all analysis and reporting duties
• Deep knowledge of accounting principles, good understanding of financial/management information systems. Technically competent with finance and accounting knowledge and skills.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to adapt to and implement change.
• High level of numeracy (Accounting/Maths/Statistics) and the ability to interpret management information
• High computer literacy, with particular reference to accounting and management software and their application in a software / project environment.

Desirable but not essential

• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains or NetSuite
• Previous experience of working within IFRS15 Revenue Recognition
• Previous experience of working within a multi-currency reporting environment

Personal Qualities

• Approachable and professional
• Ability to work flexible hours under pressure to tight time-scales.
• Passionate and driven
• Self motivated and energetic.
• Flexible and adaptable - We believe in leading through learning
• Good sense of humour, with the ability to create and maintain excellent communication between different stakeholders at all levels across the organization

In return we will offer you

• 25 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Pension - matched to 5%
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance scheme with virtual GP service
• Perkbox - discount scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Worker Type: Regular

Number of Openings Available: 0

About Us

Imperial is the UK's largest and most experienced provider of parking, environmental and traffic management systems. With over thirty years' experience, Imperial provides fully-integrated business processing and IT solutions to public authorities, universities, hospitals and private enforcement contractors right across the country. With award-winning services, utilisation of proven, yet leading-edge, technology, Imperial now has the UK's largest client portfolio in civil enforcement. We bring an unrivalled combination of sector insight, technology skills and the experience of a number of successful service partnerships; undoubtedly providing the capacity, experience and expertise needed to deliver integrated enforcement solutions.

Being part of the Imperial Business Systems Group continues to mean that all clients benefit from a stable and successful resource dedicated to the development and application of enforcement technology. The company's established team of system engineers has pioneered recent advances in parking enforcement technology as a direct result of its close client and e-Government partnerships and its progressive User Group. These ongoing developments are supported by stringent management disciplines, a full range of application support services and an overriding commitment to meet the evolving priorities and operational requirements of each client, as well as periodic changes in traffic management legislation. The software allows for easy integration with third-party products, technologies and interfaces to support the Government's joined-up approach.

Imperialis an equal opportunity employer, we recruit, hire, train, promote and provide all other privileges of employment to qualified people without regard to age, race, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, marital status, citizenship status, ethnicity, familial status, religion, sexual orientation or any other classification for which discrimination is prohibited.