Senior Finance Business Partner

Investigo Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Travel/Leisure industry is looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner in London. The role involves building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, providing vital financial analysis to drive commercial decisions, and ensuring divisional heads understand their financial performance. This hybrid working position offers a competitive salary of up to £70k depending on experience, and is ideal for professionals with a collaborative mindset and advanced financial skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience as a Finance Business Partner.
• At least 2 years post-qualification experience in a relevant role.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and support decision making.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with budget holders and senior management.
• Provide analysis to aid decision making and identify opportunities.
• Produce monthly reporting and assist with budget/forecast deadlines.

Skills

Collaboration

Influencing

Commercial acumen

Data analysis

Forecasting

Organisational skills

Communication

Education

Fully Qualified ACCA/CIMA

Tools

PowerBI

O365 (Excel, SharePoint)

Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner
up to £70k depending on experience
Hybrid working - London

I am currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner role on behalf of a fantastic client of mine in the Travel / Leisure industry. This role requires someone with a min of 5 years experience as a Finance Business Partner with the ability to influence, engage and support senior stakeholders. You will be working in a fast paced environment alongside a collaborative and hard working team.

Key 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
• 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.

Skills & Experience

• Fully Qualified ACCA/CIMA with at least 2 years post-qualification experience ideally
• 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 is essential
• Advanced data analysis and forecasting / bid modelling experience
• Thorough, accurate and strong attention to detail, able to look at the bigger picture when
• appropriate
• Strong commercial and organisational acumen
• Demonstrated effective written and adaptive interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly particularly to non-finance stakeholders
• High standard of O365 skills (especially Excel & SharePoint)
• PowerBI experience preferred
• TMC or travel related background preferred (FMCG considered)