Finance Business Partner

This role is an opportunity to build a meaningful career that helps you to connect, grow and make an impact. 

Responsibilities: 

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in the following areas: 

Budgeting, forecasting & planning 

• Responsible for project managing the planning cycle, which includes preparing revenue and cost budgets, developing three- and five-year plans, and creating in-year forecasts. 

• Collaborates with the business and key UK stakeholders to identify improvements and ensure budgets, plans and forecast activities are coordinated across the firm and delivered to a timetable. 

• Work collaboratively with the Business to ensure planning remains relevant and insightful, and aligned with the firm’s financial objectives. 

• Assisting with the production of forward looking and insight driven reporting to help the firm plan, prepare and manage future performance. 

• Providing a depth of insight to the leadership team enabling key strategic decision making and suggesting corrective action where required. 

• Demonstrating an understanding of the business’ issues and applying market and industry knowledge. 

• Embeds technology and automation, and drives efficiencies and consistencies into financial planning, budgeting and forecasting. 

• Provides forward-looking, market focused insightful presentations to Finance & the Firm’s leadership, delivering a full picture of the business through the consolidation of financial and performance analysis. 

• Owns the annual absorption cost rate setting exercise including commercial review of appropriateness of standard costing methodology and the pricing strategy. 

• Responsible for the continuous improvement of planning & analysis, working closely with the Planning & Reporting Centre of Excellence to drive process improvements including standardisation, automation, promotion of self service, consolidation and best practices. 

Management reporting 

• Preparing the monthly management accounts by interpreting the monthly financial results and providing commentary to the Finance Business Partnering Lead and firm’s leadership. 

• Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and escalating issues where management action is required. 

• Identifying and driving financial improvements through pricing, efficiency, resource allocation or cost management. 

Business decision support, finance tech & ad hoc analysis 

• Working with the firm’s leadership to prepare of analysis to support business decision making using a variety of Finance Tech tools including Alteryx and PowerBI. 

• Support the Finance Tech agenda through high quality planning & reporting practices, driving continuous improvement and fostering excellent working relationships with stakeholders in the local business and in the UK. 

• Challenge existing norms and proactively identify ideas for automation, reporting and analysis improvements. 

• Encouraging a culture of strong financial disciplines and embedding those behaviours. 

• And other tasks as assigned by the Finance Business Partnering Lead. 

Direct Reports: 

This role reports to: 

• Finance Business Partnering Lead 

There are no direct reports into this role. 

Qualifications & Certifications: 

• Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body. 

Skills & Experience Required: 

Essential skills: 

• Understands and applies principles of data to reporting, such as quality, model, confidentiality, definition and management. 

• Commercially minded individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards. 

• Action oriented self-starter, focused on continuous improvement in process efficiency and driving change through technology. 

• People management skills and ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

Desirable skills: 

• PowerBI experience. 

• Project management skills. 

Travel Requirements: 

You will be required to make short trips from time to time to the firm’s office in Guernsey and the UK Firm’s offices in London and/or Belfast. 

The skills we look for in our people: 

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional. 

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver. 

Diversity: