Finance Business Partner - London

Seeking a Finance Business Partner position that has become available on a 2-month contract within an Events company based in Central London. We are seeking a dynamic, highly organised, and driven individual to take financial accountability of a number of events, working collaboratively with the project teams to manage project spend and working closely with the Finance team to provide accurate and timely data.

Responsibilities:

• Month end closedown
• Regular analysis of income, GP%, staffing costs
• Assist in preparing the annual budgets and reforecasts / rolling forecast
• Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Assist with year-end audit
• Assist with weekly payment runs
• Assist the Finance team in any other ad hoc projects and events.
• Producing ad-hoc budgets and projections for the Directors
• Oversee consolidated event P&L tracker for all events
• Reconcile card and cash takings to accurately report and recognise revenue
• Owning the event budget from a Finance perspective and challenging any overspends
• Ensuring PO's have been raised and approved for all committed costs
• Liaising with Operations and Management to ensure correct and timely client reporting
• Working with Project Manager to reconcile project against budget and report on variances
• Producing analysis reports to identify trends to help onsite operations
• Ownership of the bespoke budgeting system ensuring all standard costs are up to date
• Liaise with the developer of the bespoke budgeting system to ensure issues are tracked and fixed

Knowledge & Experience:

• Project accounting experience
• Advanced Excel skills (vlookup, sumifs, pivot tables etc)
• Strong analytical skills, with expertise in budgeting and variance analysis
• Able to work with large volumes of data and complex spreadsheets
• Confident and able to challenge senior managers on event budgets and expenditure
• Organised, methodical with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Able to multi-task and cope with pressures of conflicting work priorities
• Experience and managing projects to tight deadlines
• Experience in events/festival/hospitality industry
• Paprika accounting system

To be considered for the role, candidates must be available to start the role immediately.

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