Senior Finance Business Partner - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Claranet

Claranet

Verified Company

Gloucester, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About The Role:

Budgeting & Planning

Model impact of strategic initiatives and business cases for inclusion in the budget/forecast and strategic plan.
Challenge key assumptions and advise the SLT on creating an achievable budget.
Identify the key metrics, ratios, and relationships to feed into the Budget/forecast. Help the business in understanding these key metrics, ratios and relationships enabling them to be quantified for inclusion in the budget, tracked and report on. Establish a revenue to headcount capacity model to be used for budget and to trigger hiring throughout the year if revenue is not in line with budget.
Monthly/Quarterly Performance Analysis
Work with the SMT to identify and implement actions to ensure each practice meets its budget.
Work with the SMT to develop reporting packs over time to ensure they continue to provide relevant and useful information.
Identify potential cost savings and operational efficiencies to enable Senior Management to improve company profitability.
Support Portfolio, Alliances and Technology Practices team to develop and improve resourcing models, report and measure Operating KPIs. Track on an ongoing basis budget assumptions/initiatives and business case performance against plan.
Profitability Analysis
Establish and support the creation/development of robust and repeatable methodologies for a customer P&L for key customer accounts.
Establish a robust and repeatable methodology to review service profitability and minimise cost.
Support preparation of post deal reviews to compare actual profit on a deal to the original expectation. Draw out lessons learnt and drive improvement.
Establish and support the creation of methodologies to measure the cost of selling a deal versus profit from delivery. Draw out lessons learnt and drive improvement. Drive automation in the preparation of profitability analysis.
Support on Key Projects
Support and challenge the business on the creation of business cases for key investments or changes.
Support on the systems transformation projects
Drive increased automation and adoption of systems including the CRM and CPQ tools.
To identify appropriate data to be reported in Business Intelligence tools such as Power BI and work with the BI team to implement this.

Commission

Oversee and check that commission payments are calculated accurately, approved in accordance with policy and statements issued on a timely basis.
Be the escalation point for commission queries.

Product Lifecyle

Support the endtoend lifecycle planning of products from Lead to cash.

Acquisitions

As required, provide financial support to fully integrate new acquisitions into the business.
Oversee and check that commission payments are calculated accurately, approved in accordance with policy and statements issued on a timely basis.
Be the escalation point for commission queries.

Leadership and Management

Provide guidance and mentorship to more junior members of the team to ensure their continued growth and development.
Delegate work to the Finance Analysts helping them take a proactive role in commissions and the monthly trading analysis and other projects as required.
Review work produced by the Finance Analysts to ensure accuracy and promote a culture of continuous learning.

Teams to collaborate with

Management Accounting to ensure accuracy of the P&L and obtain actuals for budget, forecast and analysis.
Business Intelligence & Planning to improve regular reporting and dashboards and identify areas for automation.
Revenue and Cost Assurance identify areas for review to maximise revenue or minimize cost.
Customer Success and Growth set commission policy and pay against it, budget setting.
Portfolio, Alliances and Technology Practices budget setting, identify areas for review and efficiency improvement, establish a single portfolio taxonomy, profitability analysis.
Procurement, Legal & Compliance to help resolve supplier or customer issues.
Customer Experience & Managed Service budget setting, identify areas for review and efficiency improvement, profitability analysis.

About You:

Behavioural competencies - Organisational and behavioural fit.

Flexible and creative to take considered risks
High attention to detail
Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations
Selfmotivated and able to work under pressure
Ability to travel to different sites and locations
Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner.

Critical competencies - Technical fit

Qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA with 5 years PQE
Experience of budgeting and forecasting in a similar sized business
You will have the knowledge and experience to carry out complex tasks competently, confidently, and consistently.
You will have strong analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
Excellent communication an