Finance Business Partner - Barnstaple, United Kingdom - SEA Ltd

SEA Ltd

Verified Company

Barnstaple, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About The Role:

We are SEA.

Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
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Join us.

SEA is a technology led, Engineering Company who provide engineering and software design services to the defence and transport sectors.

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner who has strong technical and analytical skills and wants to work closely with the Business.

The Finance Business Partner will bridge the gap between Finance and Operations providing support to Operations by transferring raw technical data into usable financial information and financial reports for the Finance department and wider business.

You will love working with Excel and have the skills to write dashboards and pull together analysis of what can be very complex data.

What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded.

Have a look at the benefits we offer:
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Work life balance:

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
Half day Fridays
Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing:

Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
All Staff Bonus
Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
Cycle to work scheme
Wellbeing centre
Sports & Social activities
Employee Discounts portal online and instore discounts, travel savings etc
Canada Life GP and financial advice
Life assurance policy
Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources:

Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
Private seated lunch areas
Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
Onsite showers and toiletries provision
Free onsite parking

What you'll be doing

Working on specific projects that are time sensitive and will require data manipulation and preparing of information to present to the Senior Management team
You will use higher level functions of excel on a daily basis and transfer data from other systems into excel
Working closely with the Head of Finance and Finance Director you will be required to create spreadsheets, dashboards and reporting functionality to meet the evolving business needs
Business analytics, including performance and productivity baselining, demand analysis, activitybased costings, and benefits tracking.
Working with Production and Procurement to establish standard costing,purchase and material price variance analysis
Working with the Operations Director to understand productivity of the shop floor and justify investment in machinery and facilities as required
Working with the Production Manager to understand labour utilisation and efficiency
Oversight of the financial management of company inventory, ensuring regular physical checks (cycle counting) and appropriate valuation, obsolescence reviews and provisioning
Responsibility for the financial integration mapping of all transactions withing the ERP system
Supporting with lease/buy, make/buy, and utility contract decisions
Providing support to the Statutory financial Audits

The skills you need

The ideal person will be CIMA/ ACCA Qualified
Experience in Financial planning, reporting and analysis
Exceptional analytical skills, with a track record of identifying issues and delivering solutions
Ability to change data into information for management
You will be an advanced Excel user and be fully competent in higher end functions including creating dashboards
Experience in preparation and presentation of BI data in Excel for senior management teams

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 300 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you would like to know more, please
give our Talent Acquisition Business Partner Kelly-Ann a call on
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