Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire our client is an exciting and expanding company looking for a qualified accountant to join them as Finance Business Partner to support an autonomous division.

Our client is a dynamic, multidisciplinary consultancy and services provider servicing a wide range of clients in multiple sectors. This would be to work for a 177m division of a 1.3 billion group who have continued to grow through acquisitions doubling in growth over the last 4 years.

This job would suit a CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified accountant with proven post–qualified experience to play a vital role within their finance team.

The successful candidate will be highly analytical and have excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and multitask with the commitment to meet reporting deadlines. They will have excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships with senior management and both finance and non–finance colleagues. This person will ideally have financial operations experience in industry, with knowledge of implementing processes and controls. Good Excel skills and a working knowledge of various accounting systems is essential for this role.

Duties will include:

• Working alongside the existing and newly acquired businesses, assess the adequacy of the existing financial processes and controls.
• Ongoing management and improvements to cash flow, specifically Work in Progress and Debtors
• Analysis, review and challenge of Management Information, developing a close understanding of the levers of financial performance
• As necessary, implement ways of working, relevant to the size and nature of new acquisitions. This will include the design and execution of an effective month–end close process encompassing key financial controls including balance sheet reconciliations
• Play a vital role in the preparation of the annual budget and ongoing forecasting
• Administration of the capital expenditure approval process
• Help foster relationships between newly acquired teams and their division/ group finance colleagues
• Play a key coordinating role as or when the businesses migrate to core Group systems
• Management and development of Financial Analyst
• Assist in the planning and co–ordination of internal and external audits, ensuring timely responses to audit questions.

For more information about this role or any other Finance Business Partner roles in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, please contact me in confidence or visit our website (url removed)

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