Senior Finance Business Partner

Alfa AI; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Recruitment is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner for a service provider in Nottingham. The role involves partnering with budget holders, delivering insightful financial analysis, and supporting year-end reporting.

You will act as the primary finance contact for multiple units, provide robust forecasts, assist in budgets, and prepare business cases while influencing senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical ability with financial modelling experience.
• Experience in a Management Accounting environment.

Responsibilities

• Meet regularly with budget holders, assess financial performance and provide financial management information.
• Primary finance contact for multiple business units, provide forecasting, profitability analysis and month-end reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Financial modelling

Budgeting & forecasting

Communication

Numeracy

Education

CIMA/ ACCA qualification

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

The SF Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner for a service provider in Nottingham. This is a fantastic new opportunity to join a growing business that is becoming the market leader in their field:

Key responsibilities include:

• The successful candidate will meet regularly with budget holders, assessing financial performance and providing advice on financial management information.
• Primary finance contact for multiple business units, working closely with key stakeholders to provide insightful analysis that includes budgetary performance, up to date revenue and cost forecasting, customer profitability, alongside month end reporting.
• Support year-end financial reporting as well as assisting in the preparation of future year budgets
• Producing monthly financial reports for the Financial Controller, summarising financial performance and providing explanations of variances
• Work with senior managers to prepare business cases and bids for new business or service re-design
• Ability to influence stakeholders, justifying and implementing change were required
• CIMA/ ACCA qualified (or equivalent) – Preferred but not essential
• Excellent communication skills – be able to establish and maintain positive relationships with the finance team and a range of key stakeholders.
• Presence, gravitas and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, financial modelling and problem-solving skills, an unfaltering attention to detail and is highly logical and numerate.
• Knowledge of general accounting principles and legislation, relating to budgetary control and financial management
• Experience of computer-based accounting systems as well as general ledger ERP systems
• Understanding of the general ledger and its feeder systems and coding structures
• You will have previous experience of working in a Management Accounting environment

Reporting To:

Finance Controller

Internal Contacts:

• Finance Team
• Relevant Department Contacts at all levels

External Contacts:

• External Stakeholders as appropriate