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Finance Business Partner
1 year ago
Summary
You will join us as our new Finance Business Partner predominately supporting our P&C (People and culture) department. You will report directly to the Head of FP&A and you will be a key point of contact within the Finance team within our UK Support Functions and our European/US Studios. You will become a trusted embedded Business Partner, assisting with core decision making, challenging where appropriate and adding value to drive business strategy.What you'll do
Business Partnering
- Providing analysis and assessment of performance against the agreed yearly plan and forecasts monthly, quarterly, and annually to support decision making.
- Holding monthly reviews, ensuring that stakeholders can interpret and understand the numbers presented.
- Using insights and feedback to continuously improve the Business Partnering Relationship and provide better reporting and analysis.
- Building strong trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
- Proactively managing cost base to agreed targets within your relevant business areas, both $ and headcount.
- Liaising with key stakeholders to continually drive ‘value add’ and ‘continuous improvement’ across the business.
- Partnering with key stakeholders to assist with business cases, due diligence processes and analytics to support strategic initiatives, and closely monitor and manage related spend.
Planning and Forecasting
- Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
- Input to the planning and forecasting cycle process for relevant business areas.
- Partnering with key stakeholders to critically review and challenge plans and forecasts.
- Ensuring accurate plans and forecasts are loaded into the planning tool as required and delivery deadlines are adhered to.
- Assisting with the design, communication, messaging, and management of annual planning process including challenge to the businesses of data submitted.
- Ownership of ongoing scenario analysis to understand potential outcomes throughout the year.
- Critically and proactively review process after each cycle, making and suggesting improvement opportunities.
- Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
Why should you work for us
As well as the opportunity to work for a people first organisation where you will be able to grow and develop your career. We also offer some outstanding benefits that include:
- Yearly Bonus
- Pension scheme up to 10% matched
- 25 Days Annual leave + Christmas Closure + Birthday off + Wellness days + Bank holidays
- Full Hybrid working arrangements to suit you
- £250 (one off payment) Work from home allowance to set up your home office
- Private Medical Insurance + Dental Insurance
- £50 a month wellness budget spend it toward your gym or massage for example
- £40 a month Uber Eats Voucher
- Access to Perkbox + Yulife
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- +Many More
What we're looking for
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Several years of experience in accounting & FP&A with proven business partnering experience
- Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal
- Resilient and capable of managing multiple priorities.
- System skills: Strong Excel skills. Ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 and TM1 - but not essential.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills; must be able to partner effectively with all levels of the organisation.
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