Finance Business Partner

Are you a driven finance professional with a knack for strategic analysis and a passion for optimising financial performance? Join our expanding team and play a crucial role in driving business strategy and decision-making within a highly innovative and regulated industry.

About Us: We are leaders in advanced system integration, optimising efficiency, and delivering performance at scale across various industries, including energy, nuclear, renewables, and manufacturing. With continuous innovation at our core, we are committed to shaping the future and meeting the challenges of highly regulated industrial environments.

Role Overview: As a Finance Business Partner, you will be integral to our growing finance team. You will provide vital financial information, analysis, and support to drive business strategy. Working closely with Directors, Business Unit (BU) leads, project managers, and the commercial team, you will ensure the optimization of financial performance and the development of robust reporting and analytics.

Key Responsibilities:

Business and Project Support

• Provide financial advice and ensure compliance with accounting standards and policies.
• Develop and implement financial models to support strategic initiatives and aid BU decision-making.
• Review, manage, and monitor overall staff utilisation against agreed targets.
• Review current processes and recommend improvements to drive efficiency and accuracy.
• Regularly monitor project retention balances.
• Assist with statutory and client audits.
• Provide general Power BI assistance for various reports, scenarios, and dashboards.
• Offer ad hoc support for Finance and Commercial teams.

Month-End Project Reporting

• Collaborate with BU leads, project managers, and the commercial team to ensure accurate month-end project reporting.
• Track financial performance against annual budgets and forecasts.
• Conduct variance analysis against annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Monitor and review aged WIP balances.
• Prepare detailed business commentary for dashboard reporting.
• Create monthly Project RAG status reports for the Head of Commercial.
• Evaluate and finalize monthly submitted project forecasts with BU teams.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Work with BU management to prepare annual budgets and group forecasts.
• Support BU leads in presenting proposed BU Budgets and Quarterly Forecasts to the MD and FD.
• Conduct detailed forecast data and trend analysis to support decision-making.
• Review forecast correlations from top-down and bottom-up perspectives.
• Assist BU with resource management by comparing labour forecasts and headcount.
• Question forecasts and substantiate amendments.
• Review overall project margins and contingency management.
• Conduct detailed reviews of phased order backlog.

Ideal Candidate:

• Confidently manages and prioritizes deadlines effectively, coping well with business demands.
• Self-motivated and proactive with a proven ability to achieve results and objectives.
• Proficient in financial modelling and forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret financial data and make recommendations.
• Experience in similar roles is advantageous.
• Proficient in Excel and accounting software.
• Experience or desire to train in Power BI.
• Excellent communication skills to present financial information.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant.
• Extensive experience in an FBP role in a contracting business.
• Experience managing a portfolio of projects with varying contract terms.
• Commercially aware with experience in a commercial environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance policy.
• Private healthcare.
• Lifestyle screening.
• Salary sacrifice program.
• Mental health assistance program.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Green car scheme.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within the company.

Coverage of professional membership fees and study support