Finance Business Partner - Manchester, United Kingdom - Gleeds

Gleeds

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

Finance Business Partner,

Full time, Permanent
Manchester, Bristol or Leeds

Competitive Salary & Benefits

About this opportunity
Gleeds is a successful, reputable and establish global construction & property consultancy which has operated for over 120 years.

We are a people focused organisation, supporting and nurturing those within our business through a collaborative approach as "One Gleeds".

Recent strategies and improvement plans for Gleeds have resulted in significant change and growth across our local and global businesses, resulting in growth requirements for our UK finance team as we aim to maintain a robust support function.

This Finance Business Partner position is a newly created role, with a split focus covering two primary areas: project delivery and reporting.

Your role will include a range of projects of varied complexities, and will involve ensuring effective change management.

Your initial project scope will consist of implementing a project ledger, and further plans involve setting up a new ERP.

Your reporting responsibility covers UK wide, board and regional reporting ownership, delivery being to timetable.

Your core responsibilities as Finance Business Partner will also include:

Acting as trusted adviser to senior management and their teams, building strong partnerships, including time on site / in office.

Challenging stakeholders and creating accountability.

Providing real time analysis and delivering insight that links financial reporting to business performance, identifying and resolving issues as they arise.

Turning data into information allowing effective debate and robust decision making.

Supporting / delivering change to ensure operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.

Owning and leading accounting approaches and standards.

Providing bid support and audit support when required

As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:
Opportunities to develop and grow your career

A contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Our global travel scholarship programme

Flexible working arrangements

About You

Who we're looking for:

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills:

To be considered for this position, you will need:
Evidence of ownership and delivery of projects, incorporating new ideas and thinking.

Good Attention to detail.

An engaging personality, collaborative attitude and professional manner

A focus on people and quality.

Solution orientated and innovative mindset, with the desire and confidence to input ideas and contribute in all areas of the business.

Excited by operating in a multi-disciplinary environment as part of a global organisation

Qualifications:

We are looking for a part qualified or fully qualified accountant with any of the following bodies:
ICAEW (ACA)

ACCA

CIMA
Degree qualification in a relevant industry such as accountancy & finance or Economics is also desirable, but not essential

About Us

Be part of the extraordinary;
Every day at Gleeds, we influence the way people around the world live, work and travel.

Delivering on the world's most iconic projects for globally renowned clients, our teams solve complex problems that shape the future of the built environment.

One of the qualities we value in people, is the ability to think creatively about the solutions we offer to clients.

With 71 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific our ability to innovate and improve is a product of the varied backgrounds and experience of our people.

We welcome new perspectives and ideas.

We believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together.

Wherever we are in the world, our aspiration is to leave a positive legacy for people and local communities, whilst living and breathing our three core values:

We're committed to our clients and our people

We're creative and realistic

We combine professionalism with personality.

We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.