EMEIA Sales Finance Business Partner

Apple Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Finance Business Partner for its London office. This role involves analyzing and presenting business performance data, providing actionable insights, and supporting financial decision-making. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, possesses excellent presentation and planning skills, and has experience with financial performance measurement systems. A degree or professional finance qualification is preferred. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to influence business strategy.

Qualifications

• Highly analytical with the ability to transform data into actionable insights.
• Strong presentation skills to build structured stories with credibility.
• Excellent planning and organizational capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide critical input to drive business growth.
• Report, analyze, and present business performance and trends.
• Build robust business cases to support investments.

Skills

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Planning and organization

Education

Degree / MBA / Professional Finance Qualifications

Tools

Excel

GBI / Business Objects

Job description

London, England, United Kingdom Corporate Functions

Description

As the Finance Business Partner to one of Apples sales team you will provide critical input to help drive the growth ambitions for this area of the business. You will report, analyse & present the business performance and highlight key insights, trends and issues as they emerge. You will support analysis with recommendations for improvement and action to further accelerate growth or take corrective action to mitigate risk.You will build robust business cases to support Apple’s investments in this area. Investments could include terms and condition changes, special programmes to support growth, point of sale fixture investments, headcount or capital investments as well as tactical actions to drive short term performance. You will take ownership of some of the finance process infrastructure related to this area of the business also.There is a strong requirement to be articulate within Apple’s reporting systems & tools and be able to extract data, format and analyse it then present it in a clear way highlighting key messages. You will be the interface between the numbers and your sales business partner.You will need to build strong relationships with teams both within and outside of Sales Finance and use this to help bring insights, influence the team direction and drive change where needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Highly analytical, with the ability to articulate quantitative and qualitative data as meaningful, action-oriented insights, and offer an opinion or recommendations to the business
• Accomplished presentation skills, being able to build and tell your story in a structured way, with credibility and conviction
• High standard of planning and organisation, preempting questions, challenges, and follow-up actions before they arise

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable working with complex, unstructured data sets in Excel to visualise findings
• Experience working with GBI / Business Objects & other financial performance measurement systems is beneficial.
• Degree / MBA / Professional Finance Qualifications favourable