Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner – Fuel Cards

Reports to: Mobility Finance Director

Duration of the post: Fixed Term Contract - 6 months

Start date: Immediate start

Location: Warrington, with travel across England and Wales

Financial support to and business partnership with two key stakeholders of the Mobility team:

Both sectors are going through a period of high growth, and it is key to maintain rigorous controls and provide commercial integrity to the key decision makers.

The role will be split between the two Sectors. Key responsibilities across both sectors are as follows:

• Full ownership of the Fuel Cards and Truckstop P&Ls (combined annual PBIT £10m), from scrutiny on the margin maximization across both areas, as well strong overhead control
• Working with central finance functions such as FP&A, credit, stock and legal teams to ensure reporting is accurate, robust, and fit for purpose, and being a key point of contact for all queries
• Working with Central Finance to ensure working capital levels are optimized and delivered in line with forecasts and budgets – particular focus on stock and debtors
• Driving commercial finance by utilizing the cross functional knowledge between bunkers and fuel cards to influence behaviours across the sales team
• Support the sales teams to drive volume and margin growth by providing data and guidance on securing new business
• Weekly P&L forecasting and understanding variances to actual monthly results
• Monthly management accounts and other requirements as agreed
• Annual 3 year plan
• Annual budget and revised mid year re-forecasting
• Preparing Monthly Performance Review documentation to be reviewed with the Finance Director and Managing Director, including both operational and financial reporting including key KPI reporting
• Dealing with daily queries from other central finance functions to ensure accounting policies are adhered to
• Completing capex papers from initial discussion, to financial modelling and qualitative support

• Full finance business partnership role supporting the Head of Fuel Cards and his team across; understanding end-to-end processes to ensure margin maximization and to intervene at any identified points of failure and supporting growth initiatives
• Full ownership of the fuel cards stock levels and associated reconciliations and reporting. This involves both the direct management of a team of two (one remote) but also indirect management of support functions (stock accounting, credit control et al) through establishment of service level agreements
• Able to scrutinize data within stock finance system (Codas) to support decision making
• Leading weekly pricing decisions based on daily and weekly stock and market data
• Oversee completed analysis completed by the direct reports and scrutinize:
• Weekly stock reconciliations vs external networks
• Stock management and allocation
• Customer analysis within agreed bandings and segmentation
• Assist with larger contract negotiation from commercial agreements to payment terms
• Proactively improving management information through the use of BI
• Financial modelling for commercial agreements including tenders, extended credit requirements
• Lead continuous improvement and process efficiency with respect to invoicing, stock allocation, configuration of systems and interface (fuel card agencies, pricing, depots).
• Supporting commercial initiatives including new product lines, value added services and additional revenue streams.
• Other ad hoc duties as required

• Full partnership with Head of Estates Development to report on Bunker performance, scrutinizing daily deliveries, own customer volume and throughput volume
• Supporting with financial modelling and due diligence and operational excellence with potential acquisition targets for both bunkers and Truck stops, collaborating with the wider M&A team for support
• Supporting Head of Estate Development to draft business cases for new Truckstop acquisitions (freehold and leasehold) with supporting financial and commercial due diligence…