Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner
£50,000 - £60,000 + Benefits
Flexible and Hybrid working pattern offering 2 days from home and time split between the Nottingham Head Office and the Dudley Operational Site.

SF Recruitment is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for a well known manufacturing/service client based in Nottingham. This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially focused accountant to join a growing business at an extremely exciting time after the appointment of a new management team who have a strong vision for the business for the future. This is a key hire for the business to support the management team and offer commercial and operational decision support to support the future growth of the company.

As the Finance Business Partner you will be reporting into the Group UK Finance Director with a dotted line into the business Operations Director, and assist the SMT in managing performance & improvements.

Key responsibilities:

- Preparation of budgets, forecasts, and cost analysis for entities & regions
- Operational Reporting, Forecasting & Budgeting
- Performance control and financial analysis
- Generation and analysis of financial statements and a range of financial reports
- Developing and maintaining successful relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Contract Accounting - Financially managing and reporting on long term contracts (investment appraisal, monitoring costs, producing forecasts, recognition of revenue)
- Managing the contracts working relationship
- Evaluate and Build pricing models
- Track cost reduction measures with a focus on continuous improvement of processes
- Month-end, quarterly, and year-end close process
- Business improvement projects around supply chain and property

You will be a talented qualified (CIMA /ACCA /ACA) accountant with solid experience operating in a commercial finance role, either as a Controller, Finance Business Partner, Financial Analyst, or Management Accountant level and with strong contract accounting exposure. You will have a Commercial and Operational Mindset coupled with strong technical knowledge. You will be solutions focussed with advanced business partnering skills, and a proven ability to support business decisions, and evaluate and build pricing models. This is a stand alone role, so you must be a self starter, with excellent communication and relationship building skills. You will have strong IT skills including MS Excel to include modelling.

You will have previous experience of working in a business with contracts and projects either within construction or manufacturing or a linking sector.

This is a really exciting opportunity for someone who wants to really be part of a management team who have a strong vision for the future of the business and is keen to be part of that journey. In return, you will be offered progression and development opportunities as the business continues on its growth trajectory.

If this sounds like the commercial opportunity you are looking for, then please apply now for immediate consideration