Finance Business Partner

- Media

- FTSE Listed

- London

- 2 days a week in the office

Altum Consulting are excited to be working exclusively with a prestigious media business with a global presence to secure a Finance Business Partner. The role is responsible for all aspects of business partnering relating to the non-consumer division. This includes forecasting, preparing 5 year plans, reporting commentary and KPIs on monthly performance and assisting with modelling to drive commercial insights.

Key Responsibilities,

• Preparing monthly reporting packs for the MD of the non-consumer division, summarising performance against budget and prior year. Explaining variances with commercial and insightful commentary.
• Preparing non-consumer flash sales analysis on a monthly basis and distribution to stakeholders.
• Managing forecasting processes for the non-consumer division, assessing risks and opportunities to the plan.
• Assisting with presentations for the Group's EC and Board on the non-consumer budget, reforecasts and 5 year strategic plans.
• Presenting financial information and performance at non-consumer Exec meetings.
• Driving improvements in the forecasting processes, focusing on process efficiencies and automation.
• Business partnering with stakeholders across the non-consumer division and providing insights to assist with the delivery of business objectives.
• Business support for the non-consumer division and liaison with its senior management with ad hoc analysis requests, including preparation of business cases for external pitches, business/list valuations, due diligence documentation.
• Maintain and develop management reporting and KPIs.
• Support the business on financial aspects for existing assignments, bids, proposals, pricing and reviewing commercial contracts as appropriate.
• To work with the Group Finance Director and members of the Executive Committee as required on key projects, including complex modelling.
• Assist with the delivery of the Year End and Interim external results, announcements and City presentations.
• Assist with data governance and improving data quality to be able to drive insights.

Required Experience,

• Graduate calibre, qualified Accountant with experience gained in a series of dynamic, change-oriented businesses.
• Experience of business partnering with senior stakeholders to help deliver on business objectives.
• Able to develop successful relationships with senior staff across the Group.
• Proactive, energetic, pragmatic and hardworking.
• Highly resilient and adaptable - able to work under pressure and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborative and a team player.
• Able to identify and raise risks, threats and opportunities to business plans.
• Experience of delivering forecasts in a high pressure, commercial environment.
• Highly proficient in advanced excel functionality (sumifs, vlookup and pivot tables).
• There is a requirement to use Power Query for large data sets - experience or ability to learn is required.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering process and systems improvements.