PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RECRUITMENT - The best appointment you'll make
Wilkinson & Associates is partnering with a high-growth engineering business based in Livingston. They have an excellent opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join their finance department and face-off to a key division.
The successful candidate will provide long term business planning, annual budgeting, periodical budget updates and rolling forecasting. Additionally, they will have the responsibility of establishing and maintaining an effective performance management system.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced commercial finance professional to join and contribute to a growing business – the company has gone from strength to strength in the last few years and they have an excellent platform for further growth.
Key Responsibilities:
Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior managers and their teams
Produce monthly management accounts for budget holders that ensure the organisation has an up-to-date position with the finances to support decision making
Contribute to the overall corporate reporting of the organisation’s financial position and the reasons behind the more substantial variations to plan
Support the Group Head of FP&A in developing policies and procedures for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting with the aim of enhancing standards and increasing accuracy and efficiency of the Finance planning process
Develop and implement early warning systems that will help the Executive Team in detecting and handling deviations to the planned finance outlook without compromising the reasonable financial balance between outflow and inflow of funds
Provide support during the external audit process and in providing management responses to Internal Audit
Required Skills & Attributes:
Professional qualification such as CIMA/CA/ACCA preferred
Previous experience in a similar role
Familiarity with ERP systems and knowledge of planning and management reporting systems
Previous exposure of working with a multi-company/Group business preferred
Superior analytical skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with sensitivity to different cultures
Ability to build trust and effective personal relations
Ability to multi-task and work to deadlines