ACCA India
Finance Business Partner
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Who We Are
VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.
What We Do
We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.
Location
Home based, to cover South East and South West England.
Job Type
Permanent, Full time
Salary
Competitive + Benefits
Role Overview
We are looking for a commercially focused Finance Business Partner to play a pivotal role in supporting strategic decision-making across VIVO. This is far more than a traditional finance role—you'll work alongside senior operational leaders, providing financial insight, challenge and guidance that helps shape business performance, improve profitability and support the successful delivery of our contracts.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop strong relationships with Operational Directors, budget holders and senior stakeholders, ensuring finance is embedded at the heart of decision-making.
- Help leaders understand the financial impact of operational decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and provide the analysis needed to support sustainable growth and commercial success.
- Take ownership of a portfolio of management accounts, ensuring accurate monthly reporting, financial analysis and forecasting.
- Work closely with operational teams, leading annual budgeting and regular forecasting activities, providing clear financial insight that supports both short and long-term planning.
- Analyse operational and commercial performance, using financial data and key performance indicators to identify trends, challenge assumptions and drive improvements.
- Work proactively with contract and commercial teams to maximise profitability, improve financial performance and minimise risk, while ensuring robust financial controls remain in place.
- Ensure revenues, costs and work in progress are accurately reflected within the financial accounts.
- Help drive effective billing and cash collection, identifying issues early, supporting commercial discussions and ensuring strong cash performance across the contract.
- Contribute to wider business initiatives, including bids, mobilisation activities, business cases and change programmes, providing financial modelling, analysis and commercial support where required.
- Produce ad hoc reporting and strategic analysis to support business planning and investment decisions.
- Attend leadership meetings, influence decision-making and provide constructive challenge where appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with external stakeholders, including auditors and advisers, while ensuring financial reporting remains accurate, compliant and delivered in line with group requirements.
- Streamline financial processes, improve reporting, introduce greater automation and strengthen financial governance across the business.
- Lead, coach and develop members of the finance team, supporting their professional growth while ensuring high standards of performance.
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About You
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with at least five years' post-qualified experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including experience working under IFRS, alongside the commercial awareness to translate financial information into meaningful business insight.
- Comfortable working with both operational and financial data, confident presenting complex information in a clear and influential way to senior stakeholders.
- Proven experience of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and performance analysis, with the ability to identify risks, challenge assumptions and influence positive business outcomes.
- Previous business partnering experience is essential, and experience within defence, facilities management, asset management or similarly complex operational environments would be highly advantageous.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel, comfortable analysing large datasets and producing insightful reporting. Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems would be beneficial, although a willingness and ability to quickly learn new systems is equally important.
- Engaging communicator with excellent relationship-building skills, capable of influencing at all levels of the organisation.
- Enjoy working collaboratively across multiple functions, balancing strategic thinking with attention to detail, and motivated by helping the business make better commercial decisions.
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What We Offer
- 6% employee matched pension contribution
- 25 days annual leave
- Private medical cover for self and partner
- Company car/Car allowance
- Bonus
- Life assurance 2x annual salary
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