Finance Business Partner

A fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner has arisen to join an FMCG / Retail company based in Leeds. This role offers hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with client group to drive actions to meet targets
• Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities.
• Review actual performance with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash
• Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business
• Ensure business understands and delivers against KPIs
• Facilitate ad-hoc analysis and insights on specific issues at a strategic level
• Support strategy development by providing financial performance insights and recommendations to client group, identifying potential opportunities and/or risks through scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Evaluate investment options from a financial perspective to provide a long term view of the impact on key KPIs for client group/business area (e.g. pricing, mix, sales, margin, variable costs, media costs, working capital, ROI etc)
• Support the management of the capex budgeting process. Accurately forecast capital spending and depreciation for the development of budgets and long term plans for capital commitments. Create multi-party reviews of proposals, ROI analysis, cash flow analysis etc
• Identify and provide financial implications for all projects / business initiatives
• Leverage analyses provided by FP&A to drive business choices, by overlaying the commercial acumen and insight
• Provide insight into competitor landscape to business and FP&A teams
• Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities
• Provide support and challenge to ensure the quality of data, working closely with other functions to improve accuracy and timeliness

Qualifications:

• Qualified ACMA, ACCA or ACA
• Previous Business Partnering experience within an FMCG environment
• Microsoft Project skills, Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills

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