We have an exciting new role within our vibrant Manchester city centre office for a Senior Finance Business Partner - Group and Central Functions. Reporting to the Director of FP&A the Senior Finance Business Partner - Group and Central Functions is principally responsible for business partnering the ExCom members who run the Group and Central functions (Finance, Risk, Legal, HR, Central) on the ongoing performance of the central functions and wider group against the cost budget. Responsibilities
• Reporting and presenting to ExCom members on the cost challenges across the group and outline the options and decisions to potentially make to ensure the cost budgets are met or exceeded.
• Being involved in cost saving initiatives and tracking these, as well as developing with the wider FP&A team rolling budget analysis for the Group and central support functions to control and understand direct costs
• Responsible for tracking of projects expenditure and performance against the agreed budgets.
• In the short-term help support the ExCom on any organisational design or TOM work.
• To work collaboratively and closely with the country teams to understand the local position for group and central functions on costs, and to provide challenge as appropriate. This requires the role holder to understand the components of budget in each of the group and support functions and each country, and identify opportunities for saving/challenge
• To enhance ongoing group wide risks and opportunities tracking as part of the development of cost reporting across the group and support functions
• Enhance Headcount analysis linking up with HR as appropriate drive the alignment of functional people costs across the group and countries. People are the group's biggest cost by far and improvements are required to ensure appropriate analysis and control can be achieved
• To work with the systems development team across a number of finance wide improvement projects to help ensure the data is available and reports can be developed
• Responsible for developing consistent cost reporting structures and analysis -by group function across the countries, by cost centre, by cost type (a matrix view) - with consistent policies across the group and central functions.
• The reporting analysis, budgeting and rolling forecasting of all group and support functions and working alongside cost centre leads to ensure costs are appropriately managed and challenged. This includes ensuring all the regular month end reporting is completed to time and to sufficient depth. This includes understanding the group wide bonus provision, the LTIP charge, legal fees and Exec remuneration.
• Line management responsibility for one direct report to provide support on the detailed analysis and reporting. This individual must be appropriately challenged, supported, coached and line managed.
• Being prepared to undertake ad hoc reporting, support on other finance related projects and provide other wider support to the finance team at key reporting periods. Essential Skills/Experience
• Educated to degree level
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
• Proficient in MS Excel
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Confident to work in a fast-paced commercial environment Preferred skills
• Background in banking/other FS
• Background in cost business partnering role Complexity
• This role will face a variety of challenges - due to the fast-paced growth of the company, the listed status and the use of funding from the markets, there are pressures on the group's cost base and cost efficiency measures which impact directly on this role.
• The role holder will also need to be able to demonstrate an ability to continuous develop reporting and forecasting, building the right IT infrastructure to support it (with help from IT/change colleagues), to ensure they are able to appropriately support the functional ExCom members. Impact
• The Arrow Global Group finance team is responsible for delivering to tight deadlines to support the business to meet its growth objectives.
• All members of the team are given supervision and coaching, but will often work autonomously and under their own initiative. This requires interaction with Senior leaders in the group and support functions .
• The role holder must be able to deal with confidential information appropriately and ensure it is controlled carefully. Influence
• This role will be responsible for presenting to ExCom members and cost centre leads on monthly financial performance and the key drivers to that performance and support any ad-hoc queries that they have.
• It will also be expected to deal with the budgeting process, rolling forecasting process, and all stakeholders involved from group and support functions. Other
• The role may require some travel to our European sites in London, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal, but will not require long periods of time away from home. Arrow Global Group. We are a financially strong, European regulated business who are committed to making our service more individualised and customer focused. We are a data driven business and we use our insight from over 35 million customer records across six countries to offer affordable and manageable solutions for consumers to reduce their debt in a fair, transparent and structured way. By investing in our people, expertise and market intelligence, we gain a better understanding of our customers as individuals and we continually improve the service we offer, helping them to build better financial futures. Arrow Global specialises in the purchase, collection and servicing of non-performing loans. We identify, acquire and manage secured and unsecured defaulted loan portfolios from financial institutions, such as banks and credit card companies, as well as retail chains, student loans, motor credit, telecommunication firms and utility companies. Debt is a more prominent and open concern in both society and the wider economy than in previous times. Customers and clients are now more empowered and expect a personalised and bespoke debt management service. Companies operating in the sector must be more customer focused by being more transparent and delivering increasingly innovative solutions using technology and data. What we can offer you We'll provide you with the training you need to realise your potential and maintain our high-quality standards. Empowered to make a difference, you'll also enjoy our great team spirit and working in a fun environment where you'll feel recognised, rewarded and valued. ? Competitive salary depending on experience ? 33 days holidays (plus opportunity to buy or sell) ? Pension scheme, company matching up to 5%. ? Life assurance 4 x salary. ? Private Medical Insurance. ? Income protection 75% of salary to a max of 5 years. ? Employee assistance program. ? Flexible benefits programme you can tailor to suit ? Free fruit and hot drinks As above we offer a competitive salary and attractive benefits package and we pride ourselves on rewarding success with our excellent bonus scheme and incentive package. We also have very interactive subsidised events, colleague engagement teams, employee recognition and development programs. If you have the skills and experience and would like to join us on our exiting journey please apply online: Please note - we are an equal opportunities employer. As an FCA regulated company - we will conduct credit, fraud, criminal record and 5-year reference checks as part of our pre-employment screening. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/84864613