Finance Business Partner in Birmingham

Collaborate with the Finance Leader to ensure Senior Associate and Associate team learning and development is identified and actioned

Mentor team members across Business Partnering

Use business insights and detailed analysis to provide the business unit and Finance Leads with support and guidance on Profit & Loss (P&L) management 

Own and lead a defined part of the business structure including being the first point of contact for the leadership team for the component parts of that business

Provide ad hoc support to the Finance Leader, responsible for sourcing information and providing quality analysis of information

Provide depth of insight to the relevant Leadership team enabling key strategic decision making 

Ownership of revenue and cost forecasting

Provide the business area with additional insight to the key MI in existence and support the development of new MI by understanding the business needs

Demonstrate an understanding of the business issues and applying market, industry and firm knowledge 

Offer commercial insight for performance improvement and complex engagements

Collaborate with the Strategy & Planning Lead and business Finance Leaders in preparing budgets, plans and forecasts

Deliver forward looking and insight driven reporting for the business, and provide forward-looking commentary to help the business plan, prepare and manage future performance

Provide an in-depth knowledge of the markets which the business operates in, using this to build insight for helping the business determine investments, and growth opportunities

Provide and communicates interpretation of the monthly financial results and commentary to the Finance Leader and Business Area leadership 

Responsible for monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) held in the financial scorecard, escalating issues where management action is required, with supporting analysis

Work closely with the wider business support team to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the Cluster interpretation and communication of financial performance

Provide Partners with relevant accounting advice from the bid stage to through the life of engagements 

Provide the business area with relevant Financial Control expertise to ensure revenue recognition and accounting standards are achieved throughout 

Provide local financial risk knowledge to the Financial Control centre of excellence and support the central team with complex queries that require local business insight 

Work in close partnership with the Financial Control centre of excellence to encourage a culture of strong financial discipline and adoption of One Firm financial policies and procedures within the business unit

Support the year end Audit process with the Finance Leader and Financial Control Centre of Excellence 

Provide ongoing commercial advice to complex engagements

Undertake revenue recognition, forecasting, performance variance activities as required by engagements

Provide tax, immigration, or inter-territory advice as required supported by specialist finance teams

Drive and challenge engagement performance

Proactively highlight risks and opportunities to financial performance and develop actions to mitigate, correct or exploit as appropriate with senior decision makers

Ensure alignment of top down targets to operational plans

Actively influence idea generation with respect to commercials, leveraging specialist team for production

Work with engagement leaders to understand lessons learnt and take corrective actions as necessary

Monitor and challenge complex engagements on control effectiveness

Ensure that financials are created or validated by appropriate areas of finance

Relevant finance qualification such as CA, ACA, CIMA or ACCA

Commercially minded individual with a deep business understanding

Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards, including IFRS 15

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with good attention to detail

Action orientated and a self-starter, focused on continuous improvement and developing their team

A strong relationship builder who builds trust in their key stakeholders

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Intermediate to advanced excel

Technology enabled mindset and able to identify and drive change through technology adoption