Senior Finance Business Partner

Investigo Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing Global Travel company is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner in London. The role requires a qualified candidate with strong commercial acumen and relationship-building skills. Responsibilities include providing financial analysis to drive decisions, supporting budget holders, and producing P&L forecasts. A positive, proactive attitude is essential, along with advanced Excel and preferred PowerBI experience.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified ACCA/CIMA or QBE.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to drive change.
• Effective time management skills with ability to prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with budget holders to support analysis.
• Provide analyses that inform decision-making.
• Assist offshore team with queries and data review.
• Manage risks and seek cost efficiencies.
• Produce monthly reporting packs and P&L forecasts.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Relationship building

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Proactive improvement

Education

Fully Qualified ACCA/CIMA or QBE

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

Overview

I am recruiting for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a growing Global Travel company in London. This role requires someone adaptable with the ability to work well with complexity and who is able to drive commercial decisions. Due to the urgency of the role we are unfortunately unable to consider anyone on 3 months notice.

This is an excellent role for a qualified candidate who has strong commercial acumen, good at relationship building and experience working in a fast-paced business.

Responsibilities

• Build strong and positive relationships with budget holders and senior management team, supporting them with analysis to drive commercial decisions.
• Ensure divisional heads understand and own their numbers by providing analysis that informs and aids their decision making.
• Assist the offshore team with queries and review information provided from the offshore team.
• Seek additional commercial opportunities, cost efficiencies and control, and manage risks.
• Instigate investigations into variance analysis, drilling down, interrogating, establishing root causes and providing insights, alongside the Accounting and Control team.
• Work in conjunction with the Accounting and Control team to attain key financial information, assisting data collation.
• Produce and evolve a monthly reporting pack, to be achieved by WD7.
• Presenting relevant financial information at monthly department meetings, including overviews of the P&L performance versus Budget/Forecast, KPI's, risk & opportunities and non-financial indicators.
• Assist in the production of rolling P&L forecasts with strong functionality, data integrity and accuracy.
• Assist Head of Financial Planning and Analysis to achieve tight deadlines in delivering budget/forecast.
• Competitor analysis and market insight reports.

Qualifications

• Fully Qualified ACCA/CIMA or QBE
• Highly collaborative with the ability to drive change
• Resilient and willingness to challenge the status quo / remove blockers
• Capability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organisation
• Pro-active, holding a continuous improvement mindset
• Positive can-do attitude and solution orientated
• Effective organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple concurrent tasks across multiple stakeholders to tight deadlines with minimal supervision
• Advanced Excel, data analysis and forecasting / bid modelling experience
• Ability to communicate clearly particularly to non-finance stakeholders
• PowerBI experience preferred