This is an exciting opportunity with a growing professional services firm to appoint a commercially focused Finance Business Partner with strong analytical skills. This is a true business facing role supporting fee earners and guiding decisions on pricing, tendering and new business.

Client Details

Leading professional services firm

Description

• Meeting Partners to challenge client and practice performance using detailed analysis, providing constructive recommendations for improvement
• Reviewing individual client profitability, understanding the drivers behind trends and working with relationship Partners to optimise discounts, staffing mix, and service offerings.
• Collaborate with department heads to develop and manage budgets effectively.
• Providing detailed financial analysis to support business decisions.
• Prepare accurate financial forecasts and reports to aid strategic planning.
• Prepare structured analysis of monthly variances against budget, prior year, and prior month, presenting clear and actionable insights.
• Creation of ad hoc analytical reports and insight papers on Group and divisional performance.
• Build robust financial models to assess profitability, scenario planning, and commercial risk
• Ability to extract and manipulate large, complex datasets
• Developing data models and dashboards using tools such as Tableau
• Identify and deliver process improvements, including automation and implementation of new tools

Profile

• Professional qualifications such as ACCA, CIMA, or ACA.
• Strong finance business partner
• Financial analysis, modelling, and working with large datasets
• Advanced data manipulation skills - comfortable working with complex, and sometimes imperfect, datasets
• Experience with Tableau or similar BI tools
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders

Job Offer

• £70,000 to £75,000 per annum
• Excellent benefits package
• Hybrid working - 2 days a week in the office