Senior Finance Business Partner

Hays Senior Finance are working with an established global business near Edinburgh. The company operates across multiple countries and works with an extensive client base of large, highly regulated businesses. Due to ongoing growth and a business restructure, they are looking to recruit a qualified Senior Finance Business Partner to provide strategic insights to the operational business units driving improved margins and cash conversion. The role works closely with all non-finance functions and operational businesses to drive business improvements and enhanced control throughout the business.Job Duties include -

• Work closely with commercial and operational management, providing financial insight to drive business improvement through higher margins and faster cash conversion. Providing timely and accurate financial analysis and management information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Developing the Finance Business Partners team.
• To review and approve month end reporting for contracts, engaging with the commercial team around specifics and ensuring that the UK entity's reporting is robust and timeously reported to Group.
• Understand and minimise the working capital requirements of the business by carrying out monthly debt and WIP reviews and influencing payment terms in contracts / bids
• Become the trusted Finance partner for commercial / operational stakeholders
• Attend commercial reviews and project boards, improving processes and driving actions
• Support the continuous improvement, margin improvement process, providing facts and evidence of improvements and sharing knowledge between business units.
• Support the budgeting and rolling forecast process ensuring that 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 wider business processes.
• Supporting ad hoc projects and transformation initiatives as required

Skills required;

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

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