Commercial Finance Business Partner

Salary: £42,000 – £50,400 per year

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis within the Wakefield area. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and forward thinking candidate to join a well known and respected service based business where they will gain exposure to and learn from a very hands on and knowledgeable Commercial Finance Manager.

This is a newly created position that has arisen due to year on year growth and is an opportunity to join a company that pride themselves on their high levels of staff retention and offer a clear support and development programme for the successful candidate.

The role itself is very commercial in nature, allowing exposure to key stakeholders and the wider finance team on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, will be confident in liaising with people at all levels and will be able to challenge senior management in the appropriate way when needed. This role will suit an individual who is part qualified and is towards the end of their studies or is newly qualified.

There will be minimal exposure to the month end accounting process but an understanding and some previous experience of this would be preferable in order to work with and understand the finance team but will also be key in providing reporting, analysis and providing ideas and input around improving policies and procedures. The client are extremely flexible with hybrid working and can tailor this around the business and team needs and can offer up to three days working at home, there is also the opportunity for someone who wants to manage people as part of the role to do so.

The main duties of the role will involve:-

-Presenting detailed financial information to relevant stakeholders
-Financial modelling
-Providing support with acquisitions and project work
-Continually improving methods and processes across reporting, analysis and commercial team support
-Providing variance analysis on weekly performance to key stakeholders
-Creating new sales and forecasting models to support in maximising profitability
-Supporting with the forecasting process
-Supporting and reviewing the month end reporting packs
-Providing support to peers in the FP&A team and mentoring and guiding more junior members of the team
-Producing weekly MI and presenting to key stakeholders to ensure company performance and sales are where they should be
-Calculating the KPI’s and developing new KPI’s

The ideal candidate will: –

-Be commercially minded and will enjoy providing insight and challenging systems and processes to improve revenues and profitability
-Have extremely good communication skills, will be confident presenting themselves to senior management and will be able to challenge ideas when needed
-Ideally be a part qualified candidate or a newly qualified candidate who will have experience of working in a commercial finance business partnering role and will be comfortable supporting on project work
-Be able to develop and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
-Be able to work within a fast paced, deadline orientated environment
-Have excellent attention to detail and will pick up new skills quickly
-Have strong Word and ideally advanced Excel skills

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please apply.