Finance Business Partner

Role: Finance Business Partner
Contract Length: 6 Months (Possibility of Extension)
Location: Houghton-Le-Spring
Key Accountabilities

• Partner with business areas and deliver pertinent analysis to improve their financial performance on spaces such as cash flow and profitability.
• Constructively challenge the business and provide innovative solutions to lead to financial and operational improvements being made.
• Manage the relationship between the Finance department and business areas to ensure that the needs of both areas are mutually understood and processes are delivered efficiently.
• Support risk management by ensuring business risks are recorded, assessed and monitored (including mitigations).
• Assist the development of financial forecasts for partnered business areas and ensure the forecasts are reviewed on a regular basis.
• Represent Finance in M&A activities and lead on the integration of any subsequent assets from on boarding to BAU.
• Understand and analyse external economic trends, including the impact and recommend actions to meet new opportunities and threats.
• Represent Finance in key meetings with other business departments, Executive and external parties.
• Deliver documentation on the team's key processes to ensure compliance (e.g. integrity and assurance on project costs)

Knowledge and experience

• Must have an accounting qualification (ACA/ CIMA/ ACCA) with several years' post-qualification experience in a similar role.
• Must have experience of presenting detailed financial information to finance and non-finance audiences, adapting the message accordingly.
• Experience of the energy or services industry is desirable.

Technical Skills

• Able to provide robust but diplomatic challenge to managers, based on evidence and analysis.
• Have consulting skills to ask the right questions and get to the route of issues.
• Able to work as part of a team across different business functions and with colleagues at different levels of seniority.
• Able to work in a fast paced organisation and prioritise conflicting activities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Act with complete integrity and confidentiality.
• Committed to continuous improvement and development of skills and knowledge