Senior Finance Business Partner

TransUnion; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to enhance their Finance team. This role involves leading strategic financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring alignment with group objectives. The successful candidate will provide insightful financial reporting, support business performance improvement, and mentor junior team members. With a focus on continuous improvement, this position is ideal for someone with exceptional interpersonal and analytical skills, ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about finance and eager to contribute to a collaborative team, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with experience in Finance Business Partner roles.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic financial planning and budgeting for the function.
• Provide insightful financial reporting to drive business performance.
• Support finance team with coaching and mentoring.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Financial Planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Microsoft Excel

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, ICAEW)

Job description

We Are TransUnion:

TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

We're looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our growing Finance team.

Day to Day You'll Be:

1. Lead the strategic and financial planning, budgeting and forecasting for the function. Ensure overall alignment with group plans.
2. Support the function in producing accurate revenue forecasting, understanding key drivers of the forecasts and maintain a view of risks and opportunities.
3. Development and provision of relevant and insightful financial reporting and review, to drive improved business performance.
4. Development and ongoing measurement of performance against the performance management framework and KPIs.
5. Develop, maintain & evolve the governance structure around contract approvals, provide challenge and support around pricing / market context.
6. Early identification of business challenges and mitigation of business and financial risk through the application of robust governance procedures.
7. Regular liaison and reviews with Financial Control, FP&A, Sales Accounting and other Finance teams.
8. As a leader within the finance team, provide support, coaching and mentoring for the finance business partners and analysts.
9. Involvement in wider finance initiatives to constantly evolve and improve the Group Finance function to make Finance a great place to work.
10. Ongoing review of processes and interfaces with an aim towards continuous process improvement.

Essential Skills & Experience:

1. Qualified Accountant with either CIMA, ACCA, ACA, ICAEW or equivalent qualification.
2. Previous Finance Business Partner experience.
3. Exceptional Interpersonal skills with experience communicating with senior stakeholders.
4. Highly proficient in prioritising tasks and workloads to meet the needs of stakeholders inside and outside of Finance.
5. Advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
6. Strong analytical skills.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Any experience working in a regulated environment would be interesting to see.