Finance Business Partner - Operations

Gleeson Recruitment Group are currently supporting a large retail business based in Birmingham who are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner. This is a fantastic brand who offer great progression, state of the art facilities and a truly hybrid working model.

This role will work with the Operations team to drive business and financial performance of the business, supporting in the development of financial and non-financial targets to deliver strategic goals, and ensuring the Operations teams are held accountable to these targets. In addition. They will take ownership for specific P&L lines and projects and provide expert business insight to ensure costs are forecasted and controlled, and efficiencies are identified.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the main point of contact for operations (specifically the Operations Director and Regional Managers); ensuring teams are held accountable to business KPIs through regular communication.
• Drive operational excellence through providing and continually developing data driven commercial insight to drive growth.
• Continually identifying areas for cost efficiencies and commercial opportunities.
• Liaise with internal and external clients to fully understand data content and enable accurate insight to be developed.
• Provide finance and non-financial stakeholders (e. Operations Senior Management) with timely, accurate and insightful analysis of business performance, and be able to communicate key business insight to an Exec level audience.
• Produce, develop and track a range of key performance indicators, including continual evolution of the company's Balanced Scorecard.
• Improve business risk review scores by ensuring a strong system of internal financial control.
• Ensure effective cash and margin control and ultimately drive compliance of company's policies and procedures.
• Act as finance lead within strategic commercial projects.

About You:

• You will ideally be ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified accountant ideally with Business Partnering or commercial finance experience however personality and potential is key for this role so other backgrounds would be considered.
• Organised, self-starter who shows initiative and can work independently.
• Ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts to prepare and present concise oral and written reports. Comfortable presenting to senior leadership

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