Finance Business Partner

Job Title: Regional Finance Business Partner (South)
Reporting Line: Finance Director 
Location: West London / Hybrid (3 office / 2 wfh) - some travel

Our client is a leading business supplier based near Heathrow.  This is an exciting interim assignment (possibly temp to perm) for an energetic Financial Business Partner who has worked extensively with operations team. You will be responsible for ensuring efficient and effective financial control, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for multiple business units in the South.

Partnering with the Regional Operations Director to monitor performance and drive efficiency.

Duties:

• Setting, monitoring, maintenance, and improvement of operational & financial KPIs.
• Continually improving the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of financial information to key stakeholders.
• Preparing forecasts/budgets and presenting key movements to the FD and Ops Director.
• Owning the production of accurate monthly regional P&L, supported by the regional Centre of Excellence.
• Coordinating the closure of the operational month-end accounts to set deadlines.
• Ensuring all operational month-end accounts are accurate and providing a full understanding of any deviations from the budget and their future impacts.
• Ensuring all internal/external weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports are complete and accurate before submission.
• Challenging financial results with regional and unit operational management.
• Supporting the identification of operational efficiency and cash-generating opportunities, assisting with cost control and cost reduction projects
• Ensuring all financial processes are adhered to.
• Assisting in commercial reviews, providing financial evaluation and support.
• Collating, challenging, and reporting any business disruptions immediately to aid fast decision-making and reduce EBITDA impact.
• Assisting in Capex budgeting, forecasting, and preparation.
• Preparing business cases to support investment decisions and producing post-investment appraisals monitoring the impact of these investments.
• Handling ad-hoc financial queries from Units as needed.
• Leading and developing the regional Finance team.
• Leading and supporting projects as required.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Provision of accurate information and high-quality reporting & analysis.
• Driving performance and continuous improvement in efficiency.
• Improvement in operational KPIs.
• Stakeholder engagement.
• Identifying and tracking efficiency opportunities.
• Supporting effective financial planning and analysis.
• Meeting deadlines.

What you’ll have:

• A professional qualification in ACCA, CIMA, or ACA, or be in the process of achieving final accreditation.
• A minimum of 3+ years of finance management experience.
• Strong management accounting and analytical skills.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to manipulate complex data and generate actionable insights.
• A track record of providing insightful reporting.
• A proven record of supporting business improvement.
• Commercial acumen with a history of driving financial performance alongside key stakeholders.
• Experience in finance support for unit projects.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with SAP.
• A proactive approach and a collaborative attitude.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal customers and the ability to solve problems.
• The ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Fluency in English (oral & written).

What you’ll show:

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong systems and process knowledge.
• Strong financial control.
• Ability to interact effectively with people.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Driving performance & business improvement.
• Commercial acumen.
• Developed partnering and communication skills.
• Labour expertise.
• Ability to interpret data and provide insight.