Job Description
Finance Business Partner - Warrington, Hybrid - up to £75,000
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Do you want to be the lead of your own finance team and have a strategic input into running the division of a highly successful blue chip business?
This role will allow you the scope and exposure to help steer this business, as well as being part of a wider group of companies able to draw on their support and experience.
The role will be get heavily involved with the sales team. You will business partner the General Manager and provide relevant and commercial information when needed, and also be heavily involved with the P+L and balance sheet work. A great mix of commercial and technical!
Day to day duties
- Assisting the GM with commercial decision making while supporting and working collaboratively with the sales team
- Undertake customer visits where needed and closely support the sales team in the field with relevant financial information
- Focus on business control activities that add value to the business
- Business development and planning such as price management and benchmarking
- Cost planning and control in relation to revenue
- Support saving initiatives in purchasing
- Business governance, securing legal and stat compliance
- Implementing and fine tuning effective business control processes and tools
- Working with the management team to align the business control with the needs of the stake holders
- Business partnering and stakeholder management
The candidate
- Ideally a qualified accountant (not essential)
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment that is changing and growing organically
- Business partnering experience, ideally alongside sales teams (useful but not essential)
- A good mix of technical and accounting skills
- Good exposure to an ERP system like Oracle or SAP would be ideal
Our client is seeking to progress the recruitment process swiftly so if you are keen to know more, please apply ASAP.
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