Senior Finance Business Partner - Trace - Expert Accountancy Recruitment : Job Details

Senior Finance Business Partner- Financial Services £150,000 - £120,000 + bonus + bens  We’re recruiting for this newly created role within a large UK financial services with acquisitions growth on their mind! This is an ideal opportunity for an experinced Finance Business Partner to really put their stamp on this team by implementing and improving high-level Business Partnering, Decision Support and Financial Analysis.  This is not a reporting role!  You will work closely with the Group FC and CTO CFO and play a key role in building a best in class commercial Finance function that is aimed at supporting the future growth and decision making of the business. You will develop and improve new systems, controls and ways of working as well as building strong relationships with all teams across the business.  This is a truly commercial role and we need to find a candidate with genuine gravitas who can support the demands of a high-performing leadership team in a young company.  Key Responsibilities:

• Act as senior business partner to c-suite stakholders and support all commecial decision making
• Own and develop the 3 year cost, forecasting and budget plan
• Implement better metrics and processes for an improved FP&A function
• Risk appetite metrics reporting and analysis
• Capital and liquidity reporting, forecasting and analysis
• Monthly management reporting (includes Financial Performance Review Pack, ALCO Pack, CFO Reports)
• Lead the building of a class-leading MI framework
• Continue to build a truly Business Partnering function across the entire Group
• Ad-hoc business case analysis and interrogation
• Commercial business partnering and ad hoc analysis to enable optimal business decision making
• Lots of ad-hoc decision support analysis and Business Partnering to senior stakeholders in the business

  Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with 10+ years’ experience within Business Partnering and/or commercial FP&A
• Experience in Technology pricing and / or risk is essential
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong financial modelling skills
• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to articulate the drivers of financial performance to business stakeholders (‘tell the story’)
• Ability to work with stakeholders to optimise performance / harness opportunities / mitigate risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Gravitas

  Cultural fit is key, and in this instance, we need someone who is energetic, driven and genuinely commercially oriented but who also has a pro-active and extremely curious!!!  We need a genuine bar-raiser.....