Mountjoy
Trainee Finance Business Partner
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About Mountjoy:
Mountjoy is a professional provider of construction, refurbishment, building maintenance, and facilities management services with a track record of over 30 years in the industry. The company is known for its open, honest, and versatile approach, reflected in strong long-term client relationships and high customer satisfaction.
Mountjoy operates through two divisions, delivering construction and refurbishment projects as well as building maintenance and facilities management services. The company employs over 300 people, including project managers, estimators, quantity surveyors, and skilled trades professionals, and has offices in Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Horsham, and Woking.
Mountjoy is registered with key industry bodies such as Constructionline, Safecontractor, NICEIC, and Gas Safe.
Location: Portsmouth
Hours: 40 hours per week
Purpose of Role:
You will be the key finance contact for your contracts, producing timely and accurate accounts and commercial analysis that is shared with operational teams to assess performance and influence decision making.
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You will build good working relationships with operational managers, spending time in the work and on site to fully understand the business, how it works and how things can be improved.
Insightful reporting of financial information will be key as you produce commercial analysis and challenge your colleagues leading to better decision making and improved financial performance.
You will also lead the accounts payable and payroll team, making sure all payments are made and received in accordance with company policies, developing the team to improve the service to the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead by example, be proactive and engaged with the business challenging where required.
- Build strong working relationships with all levels of the business, working with operational colleagues and clients to make improvements.
- To view the internal operational divisions as a customer of the finance team, working to improve the service which they receive from the accounts payable and receivable teams.
- Interpret, explain and drive performance within the business. Using measures and KPI’s which are delivered in clear and engaging ways.
- Produce accurate and timely monthly management accounts and forecasts, interrogating variances and challenging the business on performance against forecast.
- Manage working capital across responsible contracts, escalating issues to FC to make sure proactively managed.
- Complete monthly balance sheet recs, highlighting areas of risk and actions required. With actions to resolve relevant suspense account balances in a timely way.
- Ensure process’ and procedures are compliant with good financial practice, demonstrating and providing relevant information for the annual financial audit.
- Produce weekly KPI reports with analysis to help the business on decision making highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Own the VAT process ensuring submissions and payments are accurate and completed on time.
- Ensure all ONS reporting is complete to timelines.
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Required Qualifications:
- Part Qualified CMA / AAT or Finance degree
Required Experience:
- Willing to learn
- Ability to communicate well at all levels within the organisation
- Finance experience
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