Finance Business Partner - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Tes Global

Tes Global

Verified Company

Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Sheffield (Hybrid, 3 days a week)
Full time, permanent

Salary:
£60,000 to £65,000

Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers.

All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

This role takes responsibility for the reporting of financial information and the key stakeholder relationship for Sales and Marketing functions, leading on reporting and insightful advice and analysis to support business decision making.

In addition, you will be providing support on financial aspects of a wide range of initiatives including but not limited to, business planning, product roadmap development, data quality, business practice and process improvements and acquisition integrations.

Key Responsibilities:

Key stakeholder relationship for Sales and Marketing functions, leading on reporting and insightful advice and analysis to support business decision making
Monthly P&L reporting
Monthly business driver/ metric reporting
Present monthly results to function leads, providing explanations of variances vs. budget and promote insightful discussion on financial performance
Weekly sales reporting and forecasting
Support stakeholders through the business planning cycle in order to establish operational plans and budget inputs
Lead on sales commission process scheme design and rules, establish and maintain individual sales targets, commission payment administration
Support product roadmap development and challenge prioritisation
Work closely with Data & Analytics team to drive work on accuracy and efficiency of accounting records, reporting and analysis
Understand and challenge current business practice, identifying and implementing initiatives to improve processes and deliver efficiencies
Support Grouplevel initiatives and adhoc projects including integrations associated with recent acquisitions
Lead small team of Management Accountants/ Business Analysts
Provide support to the Group Head of Finance and wider Finance Leadership team
Provide high service levels to the business

What will you need to succeed?

Ability to think both analytically and strategically to go beyond the numbers and to think logically about underlying business issues
Strong commercial awareness combined with robust numerical and analytical skills
Good general understanding of accounting and financial control
Proactive, ability to use initiative, anticipate issues and develop practical solutions in a collaborative manner
Articulate with good verbal and written communication skills
Be committed and flexible in your approach to work and able to work under pressure, multitask and prioritise work while meeting tight deadlines
Be passionate about providing support to the business; drive and enthusiasm to use reporting to identify and deliver financial or operational improvements
Advanced Excel skills
Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3+ years PQE
Experience of working with and analysing large data sets
Experience of working with subscriptions products/ businesses would be preferable

What do you get in return?

25 days annual leave rising to 30
5% pension after probation
Hybrid working, 3+ days in the office
Health care cash plan
State of the art city centre offices
Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
Discounted city centre parking
Free eye care cover
Life Assurance
Cycle to Work Scheme
EAP (Employee assistance programme)
Monthly Tes Socials
Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

For more than 100 years, we've supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We've grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish.

We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be.

From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries.

Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people ce