Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Job Title:

Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Location:

Nottingham - Hybrid Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

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This role is providing end to end support to our Shared Service areas. This ranges from ensuring all month end activity is completed in an accurate and timely manner, creating the outlook and building strong relationships in the business with your stakeholders so that you can effectively partner and support them to ensure collectively we are making the best decisions as a business.

• Synthesise and simplify financial and non-financial data
• Develop strong relationships in the business and Finance to incorporate business context in everything you do
• Partner with key stakeholders in the business to produce monthly outlook and annual budget reports ensuring that any risks or opportunities are effectively communicated and understood
• Ensure all month-end activity is completed in an accurate and timely manner
• Monthly reporting, variance analysis & commentary, outlooks, journals, etc.
• Streamline monthly processes by finding efficiency gains through easier ways of doing things or automation
• Work in partnership with senior stakeholders and senior FP&A Managers on: high-impact, cross-departmental projects, ensuring stakeholders are able to understand and consider the financial impacts driving sustainable efficiencies for the business and ensuring any investment is optimised

• Use all relevant systems and applications competently to obtain the required outputs of the role (e.g. One Stream, Workday, GSuite, Microsoft Office)
• Own and maintain reporting, outlook, and journal files (usually workbooks in Google Sheets)
• Investigate new technologies and tools into your work streams to drive process improvements
• Develop relationships in the business and leverage business knowledge to reflect business changes in our financial numbers
• Identify and focus on the key risks and opportunities of the business (in particular in your areas)
• Collaborate across Finance teams to deliver business outcomes together, taking into account upstream and downstream impacts
• Effectively prioritise high-value tasks, working autonomously while exercising the judgement to elevate issues to management in a timely manner

• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to utilise tools like One Stream and Google Sheets to build repeatable, long-term solutions for monthly BAU processes.
• Advanced Google Sheets/Excel skills.
• Any coding experience is a plus, but a desire to develop coding skills (leveraging with the help of AI in day-to-day FP&A work) is essential.
• Good communication skills, in particular the ability to quickly build relationships and interact effectively with junior and senior stakeholders (with coaching and support of your manager and colleagues)
• The skills to confidently and accurately talk about your business areas and answer questions / solve problems
• A proactive team player who looks beyond their immediate remit to spot gaps, pitch in, and support colleagues within the Finance team and across the wider business
• Strong analytical skills e.g. overall story, accuracy, spotting errors and asking the right questions
• Continuous improvement and change-agility mindset, with a desire (or interest) to investigate new technologies and tools to achieve this
• Studying towards an Accounting qualification is a plus but not a requirement

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. Our hybrid working model offers you the flexibility to work from our offices and from home. We're big on collaboration and connection, and so our typical office days are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays…