Senior Finance Business Partner

Our client, a leading engineering and maintenance provider, is currently seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their team in Warrington. Our client is known for enhancing the efficiency of assets, ensuring high availability, and reducing maintenance costs.

• Work closely with Commercial and Operational management, providing financial insight to drive business improvement through higher margins and faster cash conversion.
• Developing the team of Finance Business Partners.
• Collaborate with the Senior Finance Leadership Team to implement the wider finance strategy.
• Support ERP optimisation within the finance team, contributing to projects and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Review and approve month-end reporting for contracts, ensuring robust and timely reporting to Group.
• Minimise working capital requirements through monthly debt and WIP reviews and influence payment terms in contracts/bids.
• Become a trusted Finance partner for commercial/operational stakeholders.
• Attend commercial reviews and project boards to improve processes and drive actions.
• Support continuous improvement and margin improvement processes by providing facts and evidence of improvements and sharing knowledge between business units.
• Support the budgeting and rolling forecast process, ensuring balanced yet challenging targets are set and achieved.
• Review estimates and tenders to validate margin estimates and cash flow forecasts.
• Drive change and improvement within the department and across business processes.
• Support additional projects and transformation initiatives as required.

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
• Demonstrable FP&A and commercial finance experience.
• Experience working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.
• Commercial and resilient character with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerBI.
• Experience using ERP systems.

• Experience using SAP.
• Experience in the engineering or professional services sector.

If you are a qualified finance professional with a demonstrated ability to drive financial and operational improvements, we would love to hear from you.