Jackson Hogg is delighted to be supporting a fantastic Newcastle based organisation on the appointment of a Finance Business Partner

The purpose of the role:

• To provide end-to-end financial/business partner support, including decision support and commercial challenge where there is a cost and financial control implication
• Ensuring effective financial control and oversight of key finance processes, including month end close and reporting (including ownership of balance sheet and cash control) and owning the cost allocation, budgeting and forecasting process
• Assist the business in realising its medium to long term strategic targets by improving departmental/functional performance, though improved visibility and accountability

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the month end close and reporting process, ensuring reporting deadlines are met and submissions are accurate and understood. This also includes ensuring there is effective financial control over the balance sheet, including cash control.
• Responsibility for the budgeting and forecasting process and for ensuring there is robust financial challenge to what is submitted.
• Providing an all-round business partner service to the function leadership team and ensuring ownership is taken for fixing any finance related issues affecting the function.
• Ensuring the finance agenda is driven within the wider functional organisation and that the UK leadership is aware of finance goals and has the information it requires to track against these with regular finance reviews.
• Playing a leadership role in identifying cost savings and ensuring there are plans in place for these to be tracked to completion.
• Ensure that finance is involved and represented on key decisions that affect cash, costs or have any impact on financial control and that we become a trusted business partner to the UK leadership team.
• Take part in the annual budgeting process.
• Encouraging and supporting the business to be more financially accountable by providing support and coaching to improve financial confidence.

Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACMA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong accounting and month end experience, with a sound understanding of all aspects of balance sheet control and reconciliation.
• Practical knowledge and experience of managing a budgeting and reforecasting process.
• Previous business partnering experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience of identifying and implementing process improvement.