Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

Aztec; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a skilled finance professional to provide leadership and strategic insight as part of their internal finance team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial planning, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. This role is pivotal in delivering management information and enhancing financial strategies to support the firm's growth in the UK market.

Benefits

Professional development training

In-house technical knowledge training

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior Finance role, preferably in a business partnering role.
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Sound technical accounting and reporting experience.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with business leaders to support delivery of the company vision.
• Create and provide insightful management information backed by analysis.
• Support leadership in preparing budgets and forecasts.

Skills

Commercially driven

Influential

Motivated

Financial planning and analysis

Advanced Excel skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA)

Tools

Excel

Job description

Overview

As part of the internal finance team where you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth in our business and to help drive the ongoing development of our internal finance function.

We are looking for commercially driven, influential and motivated individual, who will work alongside our Products Heads and Support Function Heads as a trusted finance advisor, providing support, guidance and insight to our leadership team on all finance and commercial matters, enabling them to make informed decisions and achieve the overall strategic objectives of Aztec.

This role provides an opportunity to add strategic value through delivering insightful management information to the business on a timely basis to underpin effective decision making and support the ongoing strong business growth across the jurisdictions in which Aztec operate.

Key responsibilities

• Build strong trusted relationships with business leaders, manage complex priorities, and provide commercial and financial guidance to support delivery of the Aztec vision
• Work with the wider Finance team to create and provide insightful management information backed up by meaningful analysis for our Products and Services across our multiple jurisdictions
• Use solid financial knowledge and business insight to interpret data, draw conclusions, provide insights and make proactive recommendations that deliver results, define improvements, and influence the leadership team
• Support the leadership team, their Products and Functions in the preparation of the annual budget and periodic forecasts ensuring appropriate challenge in establishing stretch but achievable targets
• Be a Finance representative on Product boards
• Support the leadership team in implementing actions from management information, articulate complex financial information in an easy to understand manner, without the use of complex financial jargon
• Ensure appropriate, forward looking decision support is provided to stakeholders
• Stay informed of relevant industry and market intel for all products and jurisdictions to assess and report on current market trends and identifying opportunities that can be ceased
• Be proactive in identifying areas for improvement, and driving forward change and efficiencies
• Develop and implement opportunities for operational efficiencies using analytical insight and work with the Finance peers on projects as required
• Enhance our management reporting suite
• Management and mentoring of staff

Skills, knowledge, expertise

• The ideal candidate will have proven previous experience in a senior Finance role, preferably in a business partnering role for a large and complex organisation
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities, business lines and regions.
• Proven experience in financial planning and analysis
• Demonstrable ability to influence senior personnel within large organisation and help non-finance stakeholders understand their performance and consequent actions
• Preferably hold a relevant professional qualification (ACCA, ACA or CIMA) with significant experience in business partnering and delivering commercial value
• Exposure to financial services, in particular fund services business will be an added advantage
• Sound technical accounting and reporting experience
• Computer literacy and advanced Excel skills are essential
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required to develop close working relationships with colleagues, clients and business contacts
• Uses active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusting styles for various audiences to articulate finance issues clearly

We will provide the training, both in house for relevant technical knowledge and also professional qualifications to enhance your professional development. You will need to be quick to learn new systems and great with people, as close working relationships between our colleagues and clients is at the heart of what we do.