Junior Finance Business Partner in UK

The Invenire Group have partnered with an International FinTech business who have recently been ranked among the top 20 places to work in the UK as well as being in the top 15 fastest growing companies in Europe.

They are looking to bring on a Junior Finance Business Partner to join the Commercial Finance team and support senior stakeholders with understanding performance and the ability to influence decisions using insights.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong commercial background to develop their financial analysis and reporting skills in a business well known for nurturing talent.

The Role

Business Partnering

• Building stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and influencing decision making
• Interpreting and communicating finance data to non-financial stakeholders providing insights and guidance
• Producing timely and accurate financial reports, conducting variance and articulating current business performance to senior stakeholders
• Deep dive cost centre analysis on key themes and trends summarising findings and making recommendations

Planning & Forecasting

• Supporting budgeting and re-forecasting cycles
• Become an expert on our cost base; being able to find synergies and avenues for cost savings
• Ensuring that deviations to budgets are understood and communicated real time to avoid surprises
• Responsible for the preparation, review and challenge of business unit OPEX templates/submissions
• Consolidation of department submissions to understand and challenge performance at an overall business level
• Support with the operation planning, scenario analysis and board deck preparation

Other

• Leverage technology and best practice to improve financial reporting and analysis
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and implement best practice
• Supporting adhoc projects and new and ongoing projects

Desired Skills

• Commercial mindset with the ability to see the bigger picture behind the numbers
• Ability to thrive in fast paced environment prioritising and producing deliverables I appropriate timescales
• Excellent time management and expectation management skills
• Track record of working in similar roles working with cross functional teams preferred
• Prior experience working in FinTech company advantageous but not essential
• Advanced excel skills and divers modelling experience
• Excellent analytical and abstract reasoning skills
• Knowledge of Casual, Looker or Netsuite advantageous but not essential
• Ability to partner with Senior non finance stakeholders