Senior Finance Business Partner

Gleeson Recruitment Group; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK recruitment group is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to drive financial performance for their Scotland region. This strategic role will involve budget management, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership, catering to candidates with strong qualifications and experience in finance. Hybrid working and excellent benefits are included.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Great benefits

Qualifications

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified with proven finance partnering experience.
• Strong understanding of financial principles, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver financial performance results and support regional director.
• Lead budget and forecasting processes.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and project planning.

Skills

Financial Performance Management

Stakeholder Management

Commercial Skills

Communication

Decision Making

Adaptability

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner

This individual will act as the Regional Head of Finance will take accountability for delivering strong financial performance for the region, whilst providing strategic counsel to the Regional Director. The Senior Finance Business Partner will ensure the successful execution and delivery of portfolio investment within the region (Capex) whilst playing a key role in managing Regional Cost performance (Opex).

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Performance Management: Drive and deliver financial performance results (monthly, quarterly, annually) to the Regional Director and support on managing forward looking performance.
• Budget and Forecasting Leadership: Lead on Budget and Quarterly Rolling Forecasts setting processes.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Lead, challenge, influence and manage senior stakeholder expectations across both the region and wider business (Central Finance).
• Asset Management Planning: Manage the Asset Management Plan for the region, which will be c. 1.5bn (and c. 500m per region).
• Strategic Business Planning: Strategic focus to drive and deliver the 5-year Business Plan.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: Work very closely with the finance teams to assimilate risk and opportunities tracking with the Regional Director.
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead, coach and develop Finance Business Partner and other team members.

Key Requirements

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified
• Proven experience in a finance business partnering or program/financial analysis role
• Able to move seamlessly between strategic planning and detailed analysis, and back again, understanding the links and interactions between the two
• Comfortable with ambiguity and decision making when not all the information is available
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and impact the decisions and financial performance of senior stakeholders and their teams
• Strong commercial skills, ideally with experience dealing with large projects and/or contracts
• Proven ability to adapt style of financial information presentation to suit a range of stakeholders, both financial and non-financial
• Strong understanding of financial principles, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling techniques. Some experience of investment reporting would be of benefit
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive results under tight deadlines
• Proficiency in financial systems and tools including Microsoft Excel

There is a full job spec and a briefing pack to be shared with this role as part of an exclusive recruitment campaign.

Hybrid working in effect with great benefits on offer.

Please apply to learn more about this opportunity.

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