AddressJob Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Suffolk
Salary: Competitive
Business Overview
OCS UK & Ireland, part of the OCS Group, is a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services.
The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.
Job Overview
To support the Central Finance Manager – in achieving the objectives of the Central Finance team.
To provide accurate and timely management accounts, forecasts and budget for Central Overheads business units, Business Partnering with the cost centre holder directors.
Your focus will be to deliver service excellence to all internal stakeholders and ensure that our timelines and strict key performance indicators are always adhered to. To ensure that accounting policies are adhered to in line with FRS102 and group accounting policies. To seek continuous improvements to core finance processes and document procedures.
Benefits:
- Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free fruit in our office
- Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
- Wide range of retail discounts
- Regular social and charity events are held in our offices
- Get involved in charity events in the local community
Wellbeing:
- Discounted gym membership
- Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
- Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
- Access to “CHROMA”, our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
- Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders
Career development and recognition:
Immediate access to “Opportunity” our internal Learning and Development platform- Required professional membership fees paid for
- Opportunity to win monthly Superstar Awards
- Long service awards
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly management accounts and present these to the Central Overhead Directors, including variance analysis to budgets and forecasts. To also act as Finance Business Partner to these areas assisting with ad hoc finance queries and projects.
- Analyse and understand key variances, investigating the root cause of any inaccurate postings and driving resolutions, including challenging the cost centre owners to provide information when necessary. Making recommendations for areas of cost reduction.
- Completion of monthly accruals and prepayments combined with full supporting analysis and explanations.
- Completion of monthly exceptional and risks/ opportunities schedules for your area of responsibilities.
- Production of monthly forecasts, the Budget and strategic plans.
- Completion of balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring any risks are identified and mitigated on a timely basis. Ensure robustness and completeness of financial records. To also encourage transparency with reporting to stakeholders.
- Support ongoing UK projects with monthly financial data, helping forecast future capitalisation costs and depreciation to assist project leaders.
- Identify ways to improve the quality and integrity of the data and processes, implement automation where feasible. Develop and improve procedures, adopting best practice for the industry and driving continuous process improvement.
- Support and assist other members of the team to cover absences, peak work periods or to provide training when necessary.
- Respond to questions asked by OCS staff and other parties. To prepare for year-end audit, to collate information, and liaise with external auditors as necessary.
- To provide collaborative support to Senior Finance management in their duties where required.
About you:
- ACCA, CIMA or ACA part -qualified or above
- Extensive experience in Finance Business partnering
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts
- Preparing journals
- Completing key accruals and prepayment calculations
- Handling large volumes of data
- Presenting to senior stakeholders
- Advanced excel knowledge including lookups and pivot tables.
- Previous knowledge of working with an ERP/accounting system preferably SAP/Microsoft dynamics.
