Finance Business Partner

Hays PLC; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business in East Lothian seeks a Finance Business Partner. The role involves providing financial insights and support to site management, ensuring compliance and accurate reporting. Ideal candidates are qualified accountants with strong collaboration skills, offering a competitive salary, career progression opportunities, and hybrid working.

Benefits

Pension

Private healthcare

Career progression opportunities

Hybrid working

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with business partnering skills in a commercial environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively support site management in business performance and accounting policies.
• Maintain SOX compliance and manage internal/external audit requirements.
• Provide timely forecasts and budgets.

Skills

Business Partnering

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

Finance Business Partner job opportunity in East Lothian

Your new company

Based in East Lothian, our client, a reputable business and market leader in their field, has a new job opportunity for a Qualified Accountant to join them as Finance Business Partner financial support to the site leadership team.

Your new role

As Finance Business Partner, you will proactively work alongside the site management team and operations teams, to ensure clarification and understanding of business performance and consistent application of accounting policies and procedures, as well as ensure continuous improvements in variable costs, fixed costs, production and technical KPIs.

Furthermore, you will ensure and support the site in maintaining SOX framework compliance; environmental reporting; accuracy of corporate reporting requirements; provision of timely forecasts and annual budgets; managing internal and external audit requirements; and submission of Capital Expenditure applications with appropriate evaluations as required.

What you'll need to succeed
You will ideally be a qualified accountant with strong Business Partnering skills ideally gained within a commercial environment and will possess strong collaboration skills with the ability to effectively communicate, work with, influence and challenge at all levels.

What you'll get in return

The opportunity to work for a reputable, high-profile business and market leader
The opportunity to be part of a high-performing site leadership team and help influence the senior management team's decision-making
A generous salary of up to £65k + pension, pension and private healthcare
Excellent opportunities for career progression
Hybrid working with the option to work 1 day a week from home

What you need to do now

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