Finance Business Partner
Farnborough, 6 Month Contract, £39.50 ph (Umbrella)
Job Overview
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted and proactive business partner, advising on emerging financial trends, opportunities, and threats.
- Collaborate and prepare financial planning tools and models to support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes.
- Develop robust financial models, business cases, and presentations to support business decisions.
- Clearly communicate complex financial information and recommendations to department heads, senior management, and other stakeholders.
- Prepare and deliver monthly financial reports and commentary for cost centres and review variances to budgets and forecast.
- Work closely with the Financial Control team to ensure accuracy of postings.
- Provide detailed cost analysis, commentary, and insight for cost centre owners, for both overheads and projects providing guidance to support decision making.
- Support delivery of the monthly management reports and the Board materials.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and systems.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA).
- Impactful, inquisitive, analytical, confident individual able to work in a fast-moving start up environment.
- Focused on continuous improvement to enhance finance processes.
- Focused on detail and ability to work with large amounts of data.
- Flexible and capable of dealing with month end duties as well as ad-hoc financial analysis and forecasting.
- Comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders and able to articulate financial information to non-finance people.
- Expert use of Microsoft Excel and MS suite of products (Excel, PowerPoint etc).
- Previous use of accounting systems. Microsoft Dynamics preferable but not essential.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.