Finance Business Partner

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Infrastructure Services – Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.

New Homes - As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.

Connected - We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our existing Finance Team. Reporting into the Financial Controller the overall responsibility will be to provide financial analysis and support to project delivery teams with responsibility for managing and reporting on team and departmental profit center's and performance

• Review of job profitability performance with analysis and reporting of variances and trends
• Working closely alongside the commercial and finance teams to assist in setting job, department and team budgets and forecasts
• Analysis of actuals against budget and reporting of variances
• Development of team profit and loss reporting
• Assisting in the company’s work in progress procedures
• Analysis and review of job and department WIP and POA monthly schedules and report on movements and trends
• Analysis and review of job invoicing and costings to ensure completeness and correct allocations
• Review of jobs requiring completing
• Analysis of working capital day trends and driving improvements in this area
• Pro-active Business Partnering role to project teams

Ideal Candidate:

• Part qualified CIMA / ACCA studier or minimum 3 years of experience working within finance including exposure to profit and loss reporting
• QBE accountants looking to work in a Business Partnering role are also encouraged to apply
• Numerically minded with good commercial acumen and passionate about building a successful career within finance
• Experience of working within construction and/or a services environment desirable but not essential
• Personable with good communication skills, including being confident in building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including those with non-finance backgrounds
• A switched-on, motivated and enthusiastic team player
• Diligent but efficient working practices
• Able to work towards deadlines and with a strong eye for detail
• A quick learner with excellent numeracy and literacy skills

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Wellness programmes
• Choice of 2 days per week WFH / Additional leave allowance

Additional Information:

• Must be highly computer literate including Microsoft Office and confident in managing and working with large data sets
• This job is a full-time permanent role, 8am-5pm Monday to Friday from our Lingley Mere Office (WFH available)
• Opportunity to spend time in and working closely with other departments will be provided to ensure the successful applicant gains a wide depth and breadth of experience and understanding of the company and industry