Finance Business Partner - Associate Director ›

The Aztec Group; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Finance Business Partner - Associate Director

Job ID: 5008638003

| Location: Southampton

Reports to Group Financial Planning & Analysis Director

We are looking for an inquisitive, analytical, commercially driven, influential and motivated individual, who will work alongside our Products Heads and Operational Heads. As a trusted senior finance partner, you will provide support, guidance and insight to our Group leadership team on all finance and commercial matters, enabling them to make informed decisions and achieve the overall strategic objectives of Aztec.

As part of the finance team, you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth of our business through working closely with our client-facing teams and providing them with insightful data and advice to help them manage the business profitably and efficiently.

Partnering closely with the finance operation and reporting teams, you will deliver value and impact to the business through ongoing financial insight and modelling, budgeting and forecasting and the preparation of data insights that will influence business decisions.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to add strategic value through delivering insightful management information and financial modelling to the business to underpin effective decision making and support ongoing strong business growth across the jurisdictions in which Aztec operates.

Key responsibilities:

• Build strong trusted relationships with business stakeholders to manage complex priorities, provide forward-looking modelling and support, and provide commercial and financial guidance to support delivery of business strategy.
• Create and provide insightful management information and meaningful analysis for Products and Services across Group jurisdictions, specifically analysing revenue and margin by product and client and driving actions based on the data.
• Use financial knowledge and business insight to interpret data, draw conclusions, provide insights and make proactive recommendations that deliver results, define improvements, and influence key decision makers in the senior leadership team.
• Proactive engagement and partnering with business divisions to provide detailed analysis of actual results, budgets and forecasts including analysis of income statement, and KPIs to understand key drivers, trends and risks and opportunities.
• Develop and implement opportunities for operational efficiencies using analytical insight and work with Finance peers on projects as required and drive forward change and efficiencies.
• Enhance our management reporting suite.
• Be the Finance representative on Product boards as required.
• Support the leadership team in implementing actions from management information, articulating complex financial information in an accessible manner.
• Stay informed of relevant industry and market intel for all products and jurisdictions to assess and report on current market trends and identifying opportunities that can be seized.
• Support the leadership team in the preparation of the annual budget and periodic forecasts for Products and Functions, ensuring appropriate challenge in establishing stretch but achievable targets. Development and preparation of board papers including commentary and additional analysis for the executive management.
• Assist in the development of the Group longer-term strategic plans with appropriate financial forecasting and metrics.
• Work with the client-facing teams to review month-end WIP balances and deliver the monthly Flash revenue and Group Management Accounts working closely with the Group Reporting team.
• Develop a strong understanding of the key drivers to revenue performance, and key factors driving divisional margin.
• Variance analysis and associated commentary including KPIs.
• People management responsibility for a medium-sized team, with responsibility for all aspects of performance management and career development.

Skills, knowledge, expertise:

• The ideal candidate will have previous proven experience in a senior Finance leadership role, preferably in a business partnering capacity for large and complex organisations (1,500 employees +).
• A relevant professional qualification (ACCA, ACA or CIMA) is needed with significant post qualification experience leading a business partnering or FP&A function. Strong ability to manage multiple priorities, business lines and jurisdictions.
• Proven experience in financial planning and analysis and able to articulate the impact of insight and forecasting.
• Demonstrable ability to influence senior stakeholders helping non-finance stakeholders to understand performance and consequences.
• Background in financial services, in particular fund services businesses will be advantageous.
• Sound technical accounting, financial modelling and reporting experience with advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, including producing and presenting reports to senior business leaders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop close working relationships with leaders, colleagues, clients and business contacts.
• Use of active listening skills to communicate data and articulate finance issues in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting styles for various audiences.
• Demonstrable people management experience with ability to grow, lead and aspire a team but in change, growth and business as usual environments.

You will need to be quick to learn new systems and great with people, as close working relationships between our colleagues and clients is at the heart of what we do.