Operations Finance Business Partner

Akari Care; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Leeds is looking for a Financial Analyst to join their Finance Team. The successful candidate will support financial performance, prepare forecasts and budgets, and partner with senior stakeholders. Applicants should have a strong background in finance and possess excellent communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary of £50k plus a car allowance and bonus opportunities.

Benefits

£5k car allowance

Discretionary 10% bonus

Qualifications

• 3+ years of post-qualification experience in Finance.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders up to directors.
• Ability to articulate complex viewpoints to non-financial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve financial performance of the business.
• Support commercial decision making from a Finance standpoint.
• Develop strong relationships with operational teams.

Skills

Strong communicator with the confidence to challenge

Advanced Excel skills

Proven analytical skills

Strong financial modelling skills

Budget and forecast preparation

Experience with cash flow forecasting

Ability to interpret large data sets

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of Power BI

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualification

Job description

Package Description :

Job Purpose / Objectives :

• Qualifications – ACA / ACCA / CIMA
• Experience – 3yrs+ post qualification in a similar role, Transactions Services or Corporate Finance background
• £50k, depending on experience, + £5k car allowance, discretionary 10% bonus

Working as part our Finance Team, under the leadership of the Group Financial Controller and CFO, this is an exciting role business partnering with the Operations, Procurement and the wider Senior Management team. With responsibility for reporting and analysing KPI trends, articulating movements versus budget, supporting on financial analysis for strategic purposes, preparing and consolidating business wide and localised annual forecasts and the ability to support in the development of insightful data visualisations within Power BI this is a varied and challenging role.

This is a high-profile role within the business and the successful candidate will need strong forecasting and analytical capabilities and be expected to be a confident self-starter and subject matter expert who is able to clearly articulate complex viewpoints to non-financial stakeholders mainly within the local operational teams.

Responsibilities

• This role will play a key part in maintaining and improving financial performance of the Business
• You will work closely with a range of senior stakeholders including the Board and Heads of Quality, HR, Procurement, IT and Regional as well as Local Operational Management
• Support commercial decision making from a Finance standpoint (deferring and escalating decision making where appropriate)
• Establish credibility by being a trusted business partner to senior leaders within the organisation, with a focus on internal commercial stakeholders
• Develop strong relationships with operational teams and be the trusted advisor to Operational Management
• Provide accessible and in-depth commercial management information and KPI data including reporting against budget for individual homes and regions to articulate and describe trends to alter future behaviour
• Provide weekly commentary to the senior leadership team, including profitability analysis, actuals against performance
• Preparation of business budgets, forecasts and re-forecasts for consolidation and review by the CFO, COO and CEO
• Partner with key stakeholders in the business to model and challenge the performance against monthly financial forecasts
• Responsible for ensuring that external stakeholder data submissions are submitted accurately and to the deadlines set
• Create financial models to analyse information to validate business decisions
• Sharing best practices for enhancing margin and reducing costs across the business
• Utilise financial modelling skills to support ad hoc projects and strategic objectives
• Proactively provide information and insight that helps the management teams to make better decisions on how to deliver a balanced set of results
• Analyse and challenge numbers to influence key stakeholders in the most effective way
• Create insight and trend reports that highlight to the business any risks or opportunities
• Finance lead on projects to deliver efficiencies and be seen as a real partner to the business

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong communicator with the confidence to positively challenge, influence and support at all levels
• Advanced Excel skills
• Proven analytical skills backed up by excellent commercial acumen
• Strong financial modelling skills proven by demonstrable career achievements.
• Budget and Forecast preparation and monitoring and analysis experience
• Experience of cash flow forecasting
• Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret large quantities of data
• Experience of working with stakeholders of differing levels of seniority up to and including directors across finance and non-financial stakeholders
• Positive, self-motivated and able to work effectively without close supervision and on own initiative
• Highly organised / structured approach, with the ability to co-ordinate a large number of tasks simultaneously and to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication and presentational skills to differing roles in the business
• Team player able to flex style for non-financial colleagues
• Good written communication skills for the purposes of describing financial trends and analyses
• Understanding of the principals of Power BI, and experience in using visualisation techniques to describe large data sets