Finance Business Partner - London Stratford Place

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About The Role

We are seeking a Finance Business Partner based in our London Stratford Place office. You will provide professional finance and accounting support to business leaders under the direction of the Head of Financial Control & Analysis or Senior Finance Business Partner. In this role, you'll deliver proactive, value-added financial insight, analysis, and advice to support decision-making, improve business performance, and drive operational efficiency. You will build strong relationships across supported functions and routes, ensuring financial risks and opportunities are identified, understood, and effectively managed while supporting the achievement of business objectives.

Every day will be different, but key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and provide financial advice and guidance to senior budget holders in understanding the impact of the period results and forecasts against budgets so they can understand their business better.
• Be the expert in the function on accounting practices and advise on financial results and forecasts for budget holders, including preparing period accruals, transfers, and adjustments to validate accounts are reflective and relevant.
• Manage corporate governance throughout the cost centres they manage, conducting deep dives and reviewing compliance with financial regulations to protect the business from legal or negative consequences.
• Deliver expert and accurate business review information and reporting, and highlight any significant issues with financial and other business results to enable informed decision making by the business area.
• Engage and influence senior members of the team to help them understand their financial position and use professional expertise to guide in initiatives to improve business performance.
• Build bottom up, detailed plans to manage and develop the production of business plans and budgets to enable good corporate governance and value add analysis for senior leaders.
• Identify and proactively manage commercial risks, including the financial suitability of new customers or suppliers reducing the potential risk impact on the business area and influencing decision makers.
• Manage the performance of central accounting functions to deliver for the cost centre area to enable an efficiently and effective accounting service.
• Collate, investigate and make recommendations for investment appraisals and business case analysis to aid business decisions.
• Model and analyse cost base and identify and drive opportunities and efficiencies to achieve area targets.