Finance Business Partner

If you're an experienced senior finance professional with a proactive approach to business collaboration and a genuine enthusiasm for all things finance, we’d love to hear from you.

With a current revenue approaching £43m, our plan is to double the size of our business over the next 3 years. Fueled by market tailwinds, strong trading momentum and considerable resources and capabilities, we are consolidating these businesses in a new legal entity and corporate brand with one vision. Central to this vision is a strong and robust finance function underpinning all financial activities. As we embark on the next stage of growth, we are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to ensure the business continues to evolve its strategic financial planning and understanding.

Why your role matters
As Finance Business Partner you will provide financial planning, analysis and decision support to the Exec and Senior Leadership teams to drive execution of business plans and ensure profitable and sustainable growth.

What you’ll be doing
You will work in collaboration with a range of stakeholders to aid decision making, presenting in a clear, concise and engaging manner and support delivery of the annual budget half year forecasts and 12 month rolling forecasts, including analysis to ensure assumptions are credible and proactive evaluation of risks and opportunities. You will work with our fabulous finance team to provide monthly updates on financial performance with variance analysis to plan, looking for ways to improve process and outputs.

You will be a Key point of contact for production of all financial business cases, ensuring a high degree of rigour is applied to all business cases with clearly articulated financial returns.

Where you’ll be working
This is a hybrid role, a minimum of two days per week in either our Chester office, with potential travel to other UK.

What’s in it for you

• The salary for this role is: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum (depending on experience) and an attractive company benefits package, including:
• 25 days holiday, rising by one per year up to 28 days
• Birthday Day off
• VITO Days – up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
• Health Cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Up to £15 per month fitness subsidence
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
• Free Will writing service
• EAP & Wellbeing services
• Weekly wellbeing classes

Who we are

WorkNest is part of the GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) division within Marlowe PLC. We are a powerhouse of employment law, HR, Health and Safety, CQC Compliance support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months, fuelled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups, including: Law at Work, Ellis Whittam, Youmanage, esphr, HRSP, HR Solutions and Vista. Our purpose is to advance the way people work. We achieve this by helping employers proactively overcome their employment, safety, and wellbeing challenges, working alongside internal teams, or providing a fully outsourced solution. In fact, over 40,000 UK employers (in 45 vertical sectors) now seek our help on some of their most sensitive issues. We like to think that this is due to our focus on high quality, pragmatic and professional advice and service.

So what’s next?
Does this sound like you? Are you up for the challenge?

If you think this role is a good fit for you, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.

WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusion?and ensuring that everyone – job applicants, clients, colleagues, and anyone else we deal with – is treated fairly and with respect. We continuously review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team, however, please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments, we need to make in order to ensure, a genuine equality of opportunity.

Our purpose is to advance the way people work. We achieve this by helping employers proactively overcome their employment, safety, and wellbeing challenges, working alongside internal teams, or providing a fully outsourced solution.
Our Vision is to be an organisation of excellence, that employers turn to for nurture and protection.

The closing date for receipt of applications is: 12th April 2024

Location: This is a hybrid role, a minimum of two days per week in either our Chester office
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Salary from £60,000 - £70,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Benefits Competitive

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