Interim Finance Business Partner

Are you available at short notice, to commence this unique Interim Finance Business Partner role, and offer the drive, commercial acumen and strong commercial experience that our client is keen to hire?

This is an exceptional opportunity for an Interim Finance Business Partner to work for a large well established global organisation, based in Bracknell. The successful Interim Finance Business Partner will be working for an employer who is going through exciting changes with the potential of having increased internal exposure within the business which will lend itself to wider career development within this global business.

The Interim Finance Business Partner will be reporting to the Head of Finance, and this position is responsible for partnering with Group Finance teams to provide end-to-end finance support, including budgeting and forecasting, performance analysis, and other decision support activities. Additionally, this position will support the analysis and reporting of the forecasted financial performance to the Leadership team to enable proactive and timely decision making.
Responsibilities include;

• Partnering with the various functional managers, develop financial budgets and quarterly expense forecast and analysis for Finance
• Provide decision support and strategic modelling for forward looking analyses as required including business cases and investment decisions
• Partnering with functional department managers to provide analysis and support during financial review processes with management
• Prepare and distribute monthly departmental expense analysis reports and provide department managers with explanations of key variances
• Develop and deliver reports and high-level analysis to actual and forecasted financial performance to the Management team, including development of templates and analysis for review of Forecast and Budget cycles;
• Manage and support finance partners within the team and the business responsible for projects;
• Lead monthly general ledger closing for supported business areas. Prepare journal entries in support of required accruals, re-classifications or other adjustments resulting from monthly review of operations;
• Support Head of Operations Finance to coordinate and perform general departmental duties; such are reconciliation review and reporting;
• Assist in implementation to new systems and procedures;
• Train non-financial contacts in accounting and control methodology;
• Ad-hoc projects as required

The successful Interim Finance Business Partner is likely to have the following profile:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• A comprehensive understanding of various business functions and their key capabilities
• Excellent skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office products e.g. Excel and Powerpoint
• Ability to identify existing or potential deficiencies in operation processes or procedures and recommend solutions
• Attention to detail and innate sense to double check work with minimal oversight
• High sense of urgency and ability to identify creative solutions to time sensitive problems by balancing achievement of process objectives with practical considerations
• Flexible personality who easily adapts, willing to undertake ad-hoc tasks and provide support to all areas of Group Finance
• Strong customer focus with drive to exceed expectations
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial impacts to non-financials stakeholders to allow for optimised decision making
• Proactive mindset and hands-on approach
• SAP/Oracle/JDE experience

Our client can offer an engaging, personable, team-focussed environment, combined with superb offices with free parking.

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