Senior Finance Business Partner

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My client is looking for a "best in class" Senior Finance Business Partner to join the team in a newly created role. This individual will act as a truly trusted point of contact to the business leaders and provide top tier commercial and financial decisive support. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years' experience within a similar business partnering capacity and want to continue their commercial journey with a progressive career developing business,

Responsibilities:

• Understand the customer landscape and their drivers to provide contract / service pricing, cash and margin optimisation recommendations, ensuring an acceptable balance of risk and return.
• Accountable for the accuracy of financial records, compliance, business financial plans and forecasts that are produced by the central finance team
• Understand the value drivers of the business and provide guidance on contract / service performance including ROI, scenario planning, KPI analysis and benchmarking.
• Support the portfolio strategy through market, competitor and portfolio analysis; and inform market entry and exit decisions.
• Provide challenge and decision support for new business, drawing upon the Pricing and Deal Architecture and Legal teams, as appropriate.
• Develop customer relationships to support successful commercial and financial negotiations regarding variable revenue, rebids and change notices.
• Support business leaders to deliver contractual obligations through identification of over and under delivery, performing root cause analysis, and making recommendations.
• Drive contract / service cost optimisation projects through profitability analysis and efficiency recommendations.

Skills/Qualifications:

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified - 2-3 years plus PQE