Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager to join our team. You will be responsible for financially supporting one of our key client contracts (Revenue generation, financial period closes, variance analysis, Various financial analysis, internal costing, budgeting and forecasting) and business partner the MD/CFO and other key operational stakeholders. A key part will be working directly with senior stakeholders such as heads of departments and Directors, providing insightful and useful analysis. The ideal candidate will be analytical, have impeccable attention to detail, be self-driven with the ability to build relationships with high level stakeholders. The role offers fantastic opportunity to develop a career in an exciting organisation with a track record of developing employees and internal progression across the Sopra Steria group, a European leader of digital transformation with over 8,000 employees in the UK alone. The role would ideally be suited to a qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/etc professional body qualification) who is looking to utilise management accounting experience to be the Finance Business Partner to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Financially support/business partner MD/FD;
• Monthly close of on a timely, accurate and professional basis (Monthly accounting adjustments/Variance analysis commentary/Forecasting);
• Manage revenue recognition of a key client service contract and additional charges;
• Update key financials P&L of a key client service contract and operational departments;
• Manage P&L forecast updates;
• Attend regular meetings with key operational leads to review performance;
• Produce cost/benefits analysis of various internal business cases;
• Develop and maintain financial models;
• Ad Hoc financial analysis & modelling;
• Deputising for others in the team as required to cover key roles.