Finance Business Partner

 

Main characteristics

Location

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Company

Scout Recruiting LTD

Salary

£30000 - £32000/annum Plus non salaried benefits

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Accounting / Financial / Insurance

Job summary

Scout Recruiting is currently working with our client located in Peterborough who are recruitng for a FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER to provide management and financial accounting services, and operational financial guidance, to maximise commercial performance and effective financial control for the business.

This is a permanent role Monday to Friday 9 -5.30. It is Hybrid working 3 days at the office and 2 days at home. 23 days holiday plus bank holidays. £32000 plus non salaried benefits

Main Responsibilities

* Support with preparing Client financial reports , including development to meet new customer reporting requirements.

* Prepare payment schedules and liaise with other teams/external parties to ensure timely and accurate data is used.

* Support in the development of new reporting on Power BI through development of business knowledge and identifying where financial insights can add value.

* Review use of SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and network storage across finance to ensure best practice agreed and followed.

* Participate in process reviews across the business, ensuring that finance requirements such as controls are incorporated into adopted solutions.

* Manage and deal with queries from suppliers, customers, and colleagues on a timely basis.

* Provide finance support to business projects as required.

Financial Control

* Support with managing the day to day cash position ensuring that there are always sufficient funds available to meet payment obligations.

* Support with controlling the value of deposit balances held at key suppliers, ensuring that cashflow is managed tightly while also providing sufficient scope for sales order fluctuations.

* Provide support to the Finance Assistants in relation to the Customer and Supplier processes, including the resolution of complex queries and preparation and checking of payment runs.

* Support the production of management accounts and investigation of any variances.

* Perform peer reviews on internal reconciliations and provide feedback to team on how reconciliations could be improved/made easier to understand.

* Prepare audit working papers as appropriate in readiness for external audit and liaise with scheme auditors as required.

* Prepare scheme audit working papers as appropriate in readiness for scheme audits and liaise with auditors on site.

* Support the production of the annual budget, and the periodic forecasting exercises which take place during the year.

Skills required

* Pro-active, results-driven individual with high levels of energy, flexibility, and commitment to deliver the business and functional objectives at pace.

* Demonstrable ability to multi-task to deliver according to identified business priorities.

* Excellent problem-solving skills, and a track record of embracing change and innovating to improve processes and ways of working.

* Sound understanding of the financial flows in a business.

* Demonstrable ability to learn new technology for the benefit of the business.

* An effective communicator with excellent written and verbal presentation skills.

* Part-qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA or qualified by experience is essential.

* Experience of working in a similar role

* Well-developed Microsoft Office skills, with advanced excel skills.

* Demonstrable attention to detail.

* Experience of Microsoft Business Central (Dynamics) software, or other cloud-based accounting software is desirable

* Experience of Power BI or similar reporting software is desirable.

Short listing will start immediately, Commutable by train to the city centre of Peterborough

Benefits: Plus non salaried benefits