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Finance Business Partner

Birmingham Permanent £70,000 - £75,000 per year View Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity with a growing professional services firm to appoint a commercially focused Finance Business Partner with strong analytical skills. This is a true business facing role supporting fee earners and guiding decisions on pricing, tendering and new business.
  • Growing professional services firm
  • Commercial Finance Business Partnering role

About Our Client

Leading professional services firm

Job Description

  • Meeting Partners to challenge client and practice performance using detailed analysis, providing constructive recommendations for improvement
  • Reviewing individual client profitability, understanding the drivers behind trends and working with relationship Partners to optimise discounts, staffing mix, and service offerings.
  • Collaborate with department heads to develop and manage budgets effectively.
  • Providing detailed financial analysis to support business decisions.
  • Prepare accurate financial forecasts and reports to aid strategic planning.
  • Prepare structured analysis of monthly variances against budget, prior year, and prior month, presenting clear and actionable insights.
  • Creation of ad hoc analytical reports and insight papers on Group and divisional performance.
  • Build robust financial models to assess profitability, scenario planning, and commercial risk
  • Ability to extract and manipulate large, complex datasets
  • Developing data models and dashboards using tools such as Tableau
  • Identify and deliver process improvements, including automation and implementation of new tools

The Successful Applicant

  • Professional qualifications such as ACCA, CIMA, or ACA.
  • Strong finance business partner
  • Financial analysis, modelling, and working with large datasets
  • Advanced data manipulation skills - comfortable working with complex, and sometimes imperfect, datasets
  • Experience with Tableau or similar BI tools
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders

What's on Offer

  • £70,000 to £75,000 per annum
  • Excellent benefits package
  • Hybrid working - 2 days a week in the office



Contact
Jane Bagni
Quote job ref
JN-052026-7013662
Phone number
+44 121 634 6931

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Commercial & Analysis
Sector
Business Services
Location
Birmingham
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Jane Bagni
Consultant phone
+44 121 634 6931
Job reference
JN-052026-7013662