Finance Business Partner

Durham, County Durham
Nigel Wright
The Opportunity:A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join an exciting business based in Durham. This role will suit someone with project accounting experience as well as a strong business partnering background. Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, this role will offer a broad scope of duties and responsibilities and exposure to an array of different stakeholders across the business.Duties and responsibilities:

• Regularly review, support and challenge of site appraisals for all projects in the portfolio, highlighting to management and/or the board variances to project budget or programme and supporting developments and improvements.
• Supporting the Project Managers with monthly project updates and project cashflows and ensuring the project strategy and spend is in line with internal key review processes and business plan targets.
• Preparing the business plans and providing quarterly updates regarding progress towards short, medium and longer-term business targets.
• Producing regular detailed forecasts for the current and subsequent years.
• Producing, appraising, modelling and rolling business plans and models relating to new initiatives.
• Developing key performance indicators and performance monitoring thereon.
• Appraisal of new projects and existing projects for key stages and input into key review reports.
• Preparing monthly management accounts, balance sheets and cash flow reports, including rolling re-forecasting to strict period end timetable.
• Preparing monthly board packs incorporating analysis of actual and projected performance.
• Preparing annual statutory accounts with supporting schedules for audit commercial support.
• Supporting Project Managers and Planners with their financial appraisals and site development activities providing financial advice throughout the entire lifecycle of the various projects undertaken by the business.
• Providing critical analysis and challenge to assumptions used and support in identifying project risks and value opportunities.
• Supporting development teams in new ways of thinking.
• Assisting in the evolution of the current financial models and tools to support management.
• Develop and refine reports and management accounts for the division as it grows.

You will be/have

• Be ACA/ACCA or CIMA qualified.
• Broad financial and tax knowledge, including understanding of project accounting.
• Strong IT and financial analysis skills including the ability to interpret data and assess impacts on the business.
• Advanced Excel use – knowledge of Macros would be desirable.
• Strong communication skills and experience of partnering roles