Are you a commercially focussed Accountant looking for a new role as a Finance Business Partner? Marks Sattin are working with a market leading business who are looking to expand their team.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret investment spend and performance, highlighting and understanding issues and opportunities with appropriate recommendations.
• Proactively challenge decision-making based on sound financial and commercial reasoning.
• Provide high quality financial insight and guidance to stakeholders based on commercial understanding of the business.
• Perform investment appraisal analysis of strategic projects and undertake performance monitoring.
• Attend and be an integral part of senior team meetings with the relevant functions providing financial insight and commercial context.
• Manage the month end accounting process ensuring all costs are correctly accounted for and any future risks or opportunities vs. budget are understood.
• Drive cost control across the teams.
• Support the budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes.
• Manage weekly and monthly performance reporting and produce specific reporting against strategic initiatives where required.
• Challenge processes, identify weaknesses and provide recommendations to support the development of more robust processes and controls.
• Monitor performance against targets on a weekly/ monthly basis, including month end reporting.
• Produce ad-hoc analysis as required.

Key Skills/Experience

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with strong technical skills, may look at strong PQ.
• Commercial awareness and experience of acting as a business partner to senior colleagues.
• Proactive, ambitious and self-motivated.
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Highly organised, multi-tasking skills, and ability to operate in within tight deadlines.
• Strong impact and credibility. Ability and confidence to influence and challenge decision-making.
• Advanced Excel skills.

This business will offer great development and due to recent growth and plans for future expansion, for the right candidate there will be a fast-track progression route on offer.