Finance Business Partner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join a large Logistics company based in Birmingham.

This is an excellent opportunity offering career progression and exposure to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting on the Division’s KPIs, including financial performance, variance analysis, margin analysis, cost control and forecasting
• Prepare weekly Flash analysis and monthly divisional reports and assist Division leadership with commentary and insights presentation to Group CEO and CFO
• To participate in the logistics leadership team and actively support the managers within the team to ensure overall targets are achieved
• To complete ad hoc duties and tasks allocated through line management chain from time to time
• The role involves working closely with the divisional leadership team to achieve revenue to enable informed business decisions.
• This person must have a strong detail focus and financial skills to process significant amounts of data to identify and extract key trends and exceptions.
• They must also have a good understanding of overall divisional performance and financial results.
• Lead divisional budget and forecasting processes from end to end
• Provide high quality analysis and insights to maximise and shape growth and gross margin
• Robust business modelling reflecting accurate cost to serve metrics for compliant service pricing for new business opportunities and contract renewals
• Compare and analyse depot P&Ls, identifying and resolving discrepancies
• Reconciliation of financial information from around the business
• Identify profit enhancement opportunities
• Ad hoc finance duties including working with the Controllership team on the implementation and testing of new processes, systems and controls as well as FP&A on central reporting
• Demonstrate a good understanding of overall divisional performance and financial results to Division and Group leadership

Requirements:

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent
• Must have previous experience within a Logistics environment
• Able to present information and analysis in a format that is easily understood by the audience
• Resilient – able to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills

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