Job Description
Finance business partners are accountants who work alongside different business departments, providing financial information, tools, analysis and insight to executives, challenging their thinking, helping them make more informed decisions and driving business strategy. Their role is to provide 'real time' support and analysis, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making.
- Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies
- Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance
- Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered
- Building partnerships and strong relationships with all stakeholders and their teams and providing financial support to commercial decision making
- Delivering analysis and insight on business opportunities; providing options and scenarios for business decisions
- Conducting market research studies and analysis to assess current market trends
- Presenting financial performance, full year forecasts and budget variances including understanding financial opportunities and risk
- Challenging current ways of working, driving efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible
- Assisting with year-end audit
- Dealing with and working through issues of conflict and operational challenges with project teams and other stakeholders
- Understanding the cost drivers of the business and providing insight to the non-finance members