Finance Business Partner (Sales)

Focus Group; Shoreham-by-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology business seeks a Finance Business Partner (Sales) to support strategic decision-making and drive performance. This hybrid role (2 days a week in office) requires analytical capabilities and strong stakeholder management. Join a fast-growing company with a collaborative culture, recognized as one of the UK's best workplaces.

Qualifications

• Experience working with PE firms.
• Experience building business plan models.
• Extensive financial modelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic support to the Group Sales function.
• Drive business performance and decision support.
• Manage budgeting and forecasting.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication abilities

Knowledge of recurring revenue metrics

Ability to influence stakeholders

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Job Title Finance Business Partner (Sales)

Salary £85,000 + Bonus + Attractive Equity Proposition

Location Shoreham-by-Sea (Hybrid 2 days a week)

• PE-backed Technology business (MSP) $1bn valuation
• 1100+ employees and scaling with M&A activity
• Inclusive, collaborative, high-performing culture

Established in 2003, Focus Group is proud to be one of the UK’s fastest growing independent providers of essential business technology, providing digital workplace solutions to over 30,000 customers across the UK.

The Finance Business Partner provides strategic commercial business partnering support to the Group Sales function across Focus group.

Within the role, the position will provide decision support to the leadership team of the Sales functions under the remit of the CRO and will seek to drive business performance and create value. This role is expected to be integral in the formulation of strategy, decision-making and execution against objectives.

Other responsibilities cover business case/investment modelling, strategy, budgeting & forecasting, non-finance stakeholder management and decision support.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and strong knowledge of recurring revenue/ARR snowball metrics.

Essential Skills and experience

• Detailed knowledge of Snowball and ARR metrics
• Experience working with PE firms
• Experience building business plan models on a Recurring revenue basis
• Extensive financial modelling and excel skills are essential to succeed in this role
• Knowledge of data cubes and experience of using Power BI or similar visualisation tool.
• Ability to build relationships and influence in a fast-paced high performing business culture
• Ability to work in a collaborative and pro-active manner with your Group Finance colleagues
• Excellent communicator who can deal effectively with financial and non-financial people, creating relationships across multiple stake-holders
• Takes full ownership of areas of own responsibility and is delivery focused.
• Highly motivated and takes a proactive approach to problem solving and is commercially minded when approaching business decisions.
• Experience influencing stakeholders at a very senior level and comfortable challenging at this level

Desired Skills

• Experience of commercial business partnering
• Experience of using Power BI
• Business services industry experience
• Professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent) is an advantage

At Focus Group you can be proud of what you do, how you do it and feel a true part of the team. We work hard to create an inclusive, collaborative and rewarding environment where you are inspired to achieve brilliant things and really make a difference to the future of our business.

We’re proud to have built an outstanding place to work where people thrive and are recognised for their achievements. We’re delighted to have been named one of the UK’s best 100 Companies to Work for 2021 and a British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) 2023 Vision Award Winner for London & South East for our commitment to culture and ESG.

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