Finance Business Partner

Resourcery Group work on behalf of a diverse range of businesses across the North West to identify, attract and recruit the very best in finance talent. With decades of experience and a wide network of contacts, Resourcery Group have the reach and market penetration to fill almost any role. Our detail-orientated and customer-centric approach ensures higher levels of retention, lowering attrition, in turn saving businesses time and money, whilst providing candidates with true career defining opportunities and the chance to develop over the longer-term.

One of these key, high growth clients in Manchester has asked for our assistance in hiring several senior Finance Business Partner roles. The business has been growing incrementally, and in more recent years, exponentially. The trend is set to continue over the next few years thus driving the need for deeper commercial insight, more informed decision making and better internal collaboration and communication. In short, they need to hire more commercially-astute Finance Business Partners.

A large turnover business (£BN), the Finance Business Partners sit alongside and work closely with the FP&A team and core finance, acting as the conduit for the flow of commercial insight and data from finance to non-finance stakeholders. FP&A and analysis skills are, of course, highly valued, as is experience of using BI and visualisation tools. But above all, it is the ability to interact with others that counts for most. Your emotional intelligence or EQ. Your gravitas, self awareness, ability to read the room, gauge the temperature, know what words are needed and when to use them (and when to not). Knowing when to push and when to roll over. When to plant the seed and walk away, or when to chop the tree down. EQ is hard to measure and even harder to convey on a CV. But EQ sits are the heart of all good and trusting relationships and to operate successfully as a business partner you have to be able to build relationships with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders. The ability to influence and drive and deliver change is essential.

Working closely with the Exec team and SLT you will be influencing operational and commercial decisions across the business.

As the Finance Business Partner your role with cover:

• Partner with key stakeholders to provide financial insights and support decision-making processes
• Drive the financial planning and forecasting processes
• Analyze financial performance and identify areas for improvement
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with business leaders to influence and drive business performance
• Lead and support strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability
• Collaborating with operational teams to understand business performance
• Providing financial insights to support strategic decision making
• Developing and maintaining financial models to support business planning
• Engaging with senior stakeholders to drive business performance

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience
• Proven experience as a Finance Business Partner or similar role
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to influence at a senior level
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities
• Advanced Excel, Oracle (or other large ERP experience), TM1 (nice to have)

If this sounds like the type of organisation that excites you, if you are career-orientated, entrepreneurially-minded, and driven to delivery better results then please get in touch.

Benefits include:

• Hybrid working (1/2 days at home)
• 10% bonus
• 4% pension
• 25 days holidays
• salary to around £75,000