Interim Senior Finance Business Partner

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global professional services firm as a Senior Finance Business Partner in Sheffield. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence key financial decisions within a dynamic commercial finance team. You will be responsible for managing costs related to significant transformation projects, providing valuable insights, and ensuring robust reporting practices. Enjoy a hybrid working model with a competitive salary and benefits, including a salary sacrifice pension scheme and generous holiday allowance. If you are ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified with strong analytical skills, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

28 days holiday (+ bank holidays)

Salary sacrifice pension scheme with 6% contribution

Hybrid working model

Qualifications

• 3+ years post qualification experience in finance.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on financial modelling.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with IT to manage and report on costs effectively.
• Overseeing project tracking and providing insights to senior stakeholders.

Skills

ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified

Financial modelling

Project tracking

Excellent communication skills

Education

ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualification

Job description

Sewell Wallis are proud to be partnering with a well recognised, global professional services business based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire with their search for a Senior Finance Business Partner on a fixed term contract for a period of 12 months. The successful candidate will join a high performing commercial finance team and will take responsibility for partnering IT, which due to significant transformational change projects is one of their key areas of spend.

The Senior Finance Business Partner will be responsible for partnering with IT that there is rigour and control over the management and reporting of costs (including Capex and Project costs). This will include BAU analysis and reporting, cyclical work such as the budget and reforecasting processes and ad-hoc analysis.

The finance team is based in Sheffield and they work 3 days in the office 2 days from home, however if you are sucessful in achieveing this Senior Finance Business Partner role, you could be based from the Leeds or Manchester office and travel to Sheffield 1 day a week.

What will you be doing?

• Influencing senior stakeholders and acting as a trusted advisor to the business by providing valuable commercial insights and challenge to cost plans
• Overseeing Project tracking, KPIs and Capex
• Take the monthly MI and commentary to the Service Directors, highlighting progress against budget/reforecast, highlighting any emerging issues, potential challenges, and proposed
• Ensuring Headcount data is prepared, reviewed and commentary given on any variances
• Working with the Costs Senior BP to provide a consistent, insightful and regular reporting and data set across specific Service Areas.
• Adhoc analysis, reporting and modelling on a range of costs across the Firm.
• Analysing costs to identify trends, where the business might mitigate identified risks or overspend and working with the Senior Finance BP - Costs to implement changes.

What skills are we looking for?

• ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified with 3 years + post qualification experience
• Excellent analysis and financial modelling skills
• Experience of Project tracking and Capex modelling
• Excellent written and verbal communication and has strength of personality to ensure the Finance view is clearly communicated.

What's on offer?

• Salary of 75,000 - 78,000
• A fixed term contract of 12 months
• Hybrid working (3 days in the Sheffield office)
• 28 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with a 6% contribution

Apply below or for more information, contact Kayley.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.