Finance Business Partner Analyst

J Murphy & Sons Limited; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy Plant is seeking a Finance Business Partner Analyst to provide high-quality financial reporting and business partnering support across the Plant finance team and operational stakeholders. You will help deliver month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis while developing technical accounting and stakeholder-engagement capabilities.

Reporting to the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner, you will maintain project master data, perform variance analysis, and support

Qualifications

• Working towards a professional accounting qualification (eg CIMA, ACA etc)
• Strong analytical and planning skills, with solid accounting and control background.
• Proven experience working across multiple areas of the finance function.
• Ability to produce high-quality written communications and presentations for senior management.
• Effective change agent, capable of gaining organisational buy-in and driving transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Support accurate month-end reporting, including journals, accruals, prepayments and reallocations.
• Prepare revenue, salary, overhead and flash reporting with clear supporting analysis.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations and investigate exceptions.
• Support compliance with accounting policies, financial controls and audits.
• Prepare and validate asset-category reporting and analyse revenue, cost, utilisation and performance.
• Investigate variances between billing, invoices and management accounts.

Skills

Analytical skills

Planning skills

Written communications

Stakeholder engagement

Adaptability

Education

Professional accounting qualification (CIMA/ACA/ACCA/ACCA)

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Finance Business Partner Analyst will provide high-quality financial reporting, analytical and business partnering support to the Plant Finance team and operational stakeholders across Murphy Plant. The role supports the accurate and timely delivery of month-end reporting, performance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, project master data maintenance, financial-control activities and operational finance processes. Working under the direction of the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner, the Finance Business Partnering Analyst will prepare financial and operational information, investigate performance variances and communicate relevant findings to finance and operational stakeholders. The role combines core finance and analytical responsibilities with supported exposure to operational and commercial activities. It is designed to develop technical accounting, analytical, systems and stakeholder-engagement capability.

A day in the life of a Murphy Finance Business Partner Analyst

• Support accurate and timely month-end reporting, including journals, accruals, prepayments, reallocations and allocated profit and loss accounts.
• Prepare revenue, salary, overhead and flash reporting with clear supporting analysis for review.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations, investigate exceptions and escalator material or unresolved items.
• Support compliance with accounting policies, financial controls and internal, external and client audit requirements.
• Prepare and validate asset-category reporting and analyse revenue, cost, utilisation, maintenance and operational performance.
• Investigate variances between billing, invoices, project ledgers and management accounts, preparing approved reallocations where required.
• Produce allocated analysis for Product Leads and Supervisors, including HVO, maintenance, cash and working-capital information.
• Support annual budgets, periodic forecasts and quarterly reviews by preparing and maintaining allocated schedules, models and assumptions.
• Collate and validate financial and operational inputs, identifying incomplete, inconsistent or unsupported information.
• Compare actual results with budget and forecast, preparing initial variance analysis and supporting reconciliations.
• Provide clear financial information and factual analysis to operational stakeholders, referring material judgements to the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner.
• Attend allocated performance reviews, explain variances, capture actions and follow up agreed activities.
• Provide task-based cover and additional analytical support during month-end, planning cycles and periods of peak workload.
• Maintain allocated project master data from opening to closure, including authorised changes, cleansing, purchase-order reviews and project closures.
• Complete reconciliations across relevant systems, investigate inconsistencies and escalated unresolved matters.
• Prepare working-capital analysis and support the investigation and resolution of aged debtor, creditor and other outstanding balances.
• Maintain action trackers and liaise with relevant teams to follow up overdue or unusual items.
• Support periodic independent asset counts and reconcile results to the relevant asset records.
• Investigate discrepancies, summarise findings and maintain follow-up actions for review.
• Identify practical opportunities to simplify, standardise or automate recurring reporting, reconciliation and data-management activities.
• Contribute to approved finance improvement projects under the direction of the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner.

Qualifications

• Working towards a professional accounting qualification (eg CIMA, ACA etc)
• Strong analytical and planning skills, with solid accounting and control background.
• Proven experience working across multiple areas of the finance function.
• Ability to produce high-quality written communications and presentations for senior management.
• Effective change agent, capable of gaining organisational buy-in and driving transformation initiatives.
• Results-oriented, with a focus on both planning and execution.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving business environment.
• Must be working towards an accountancy Qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Must have strong academic record and experience of working in Finance in a commercial business
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Software particularly Excel.

Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses - Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as 'One Murphy'