Finance Business Partner - Transformation & Technology

walkerdendle; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a finance business partner in Leeds to work closely with IT and Transformation teams. The ideal candidate should be part qualified in ACA/ACCA/IMA and have experience in financial analysis and business partnering. Strong Excel skills and familiarity with Oracle are essential. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to significant IT investment projects.

Qualifications

• Part qualified ACA/ACCA/IMA required.
• Experience supporting significant IT change programmes preferred.
• Business partnering across multiple functions/divisions necessary.

Responsibilities

• Track actual and forecast spend accurately.
• Prepare monthly management reporting information.
• Manage POs for Technology & Transformation.

Skills

Excel skills

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Business partnering

Education

Part qualified ACA/ACCA/IMA

Tools

Oracle

Job description

The Role

A fabulous career opportunity for a part qualified to step up as a finance business partner to work closely with the leads for each of the core areas of the IT, E-Business and Transformation cost centres. The role is ideally suited to an accountant who has experience in supporting one-off programmes and/or significant IT investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely tracking and analysis of actual spend
• Timely and accurate updating of forecast spend
• Tracking of financial risks and opportunities
• Prepare monthly management reporting information for the Technology & Transformation team ensuring reporting reconciles back to underlying data
• Calculate and maintain monthly accruals and prepayments schedule and post the necessary journals into Oracle.
• Work with leads to ensure financial risks and opportunities are tracked at a transactional/vendor level and appropriately reflected in forecasts and updates to senior stakeholders through the forecasting tool, Hubble.
• Prepare the annual budget and monthly rolling forecasts in conjunction with T&T Business Partner in FP&A team and various Heads of Department within the Technology area
• Management of POs for Technology & Transformation including liaising with various stakeholders; appropriate coding of POs; managing any extensions to POs against forecast and approved spend.
• Be the first point of contact for any finance queries related to Technology & Transformation
• Create and manage recharge schedule; to ensure recharges are raised to BUs each month; co-ordinate with BU finance teams to ensure they understand and are anticipating the recharge

The Successful Applicant

• Part qualified ACA/ACCA/IMA
• Experience of supporting significant IT change programmes/capex spend would be desirable
• Experience of business partnering across multiple functions/divisions
• Oracle or similar systems with integrated modules
• Excellent Excel skills
• Ability to produce accurate models
• Attention to detail and ability to do in-depth analysis

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