Finance Business Partner

CAPGEMINI ENGINEERING; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Finance Business Partner, where you'll play a pivotal role in driving profitability and financial control. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with diverse business partners and present financial insights to senior leaders. With a hybrid working model, you'll enjoy a blend of office and remote work while benefiting from extensive training and development opportunities. Be part of a thriving organization that values employee wellbeing and innovation, empowering you to explore and progress in your career.

Benefits

Wellbeing Apps

Mental Health Champions

Training Opportunities

Access to External Certifications

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with experience in business partnering.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly reporting cycles and financial performance analysis.
• Interpret financial variances and assess operational risks.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

ACCA

CIMA

ACA

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Internal role information

Location: Telford

Unified grade: B2

SBU: HMRC

About the job you're considering

You will be a key partner on our flagship IT Services account working as a Finance Business Partner, demonstrating financial control, identifying opportunities to drive profitability, and working with a variety of business partners across the organization.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will need strong analytical skills together with the ability to communicate across business functions at senior levels within your area. You will demonstrate your skills across commercial, sales, operations and delivery, displaying confidence and gravitas to support and challenge at all levels throughout the organisation.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration

Your role

• Support our Lead Finance Business Partners with monthly reporting cycles, including monthly actuals, rolling forecast and budget setting, financial performance analysis, and balance sheet control.
• Interpret financial variances and assess operational risks & opportunities to make recommendations to drive performance.
• Understand complex and evolving client contracts and their financial and commercial implications, including revenue and cost recognition principles.
• Work closely will delivery partners, supporting and challenging them where necessary.
• Present the financial position at monthly reviews to senior business leaders.
• Design, implement and produce ad hoc reports and analysis to support the business to enable decision-making.

Your skills and experience

• You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
• Experience of working closely with the business and operations in a business partnering capacity.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and explain financial information.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong balance sheet control.
• Ability to prioritise workloads in a pressured environment and manage multiple tasks to strict deadliness.
• Strong technical skills including Microsoft Excel would be advantageous.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does "Get the Future You Want" mean for you

You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of ₠22.1 billion.