Finance Business Partner
- Employer
- Michael Page Finance
- Location
- England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
- Salary
- £45000 - £50000 per annum
- Closing date
- Apr 3, 2019
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- Job Role
- Finance Business Partner
- Sector
- Retail & Wholesale
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Finance Business Partner to senior operational leaders, providing financial and commercial analysis around sales, cost and activity. Challenge performance, financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis for the Retail and Operations teams.
Client Details
Our client is a market leader in their industry. Based in Manchester city centre , they are an exciting business to work for which offers excellent career opportunities and a great company culture
Description
The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for:
- Leading the production and continuous improvement of trading reports, KPIs and ad hoc analysis on internal performance and against the market for divisions and regions.
- Developing relationships to challenge performance, drive improvements and achieve targets
- Providing insight and challenge into forecasted performance, encouraging operational management to create initiatives to close any gaps
- Analysing trends, communicate performance, provide insight, identify risks & opportunities
- Taking ownership of the retail budget, ensuring key deadlines are met and robust substance is applied to budget stretches.
- The financial challenge on personnel costs in store, ensuring continuous efficiencies are made and management are accountable to make personnel savings through large scale efficiency projects.
- Understanding the retail market with regards to pricing, sales, margin & competitor activity and how this relates to internal performance, ensuring market changes are understood & action is taken with regards to commercial/financial plans.
- Developing relationships within finance to solve internal challenges while maintaining a one team mentality
Profile
Job Offer
- Competitive salary
- Excellent benefits package including car allowance
- Excellent opportunities to progress
- Gain fantastic commercial experience as a finance business partner
Company
Michael Page specialises in the permanent, temporary and interim recruitment of qualified accountants. In fact, our organisation was founded to provide selection and recruitment services for accounting professionals and has been a market leader in this field for more than 35 years.
We have earned the trust of clients in industry and commerce, the banking and financial services markets and the public and not-for-profit sector. We also have an exemplary track record of completing assignments for everyone from small, boutique practices to the Big Four firms.
Many of our consultants have a background in accounting and finance – that’s real, grass roots expertise at your disposal. Combine that with the global reach you get from a company that has over 155 offices in 36 countries and you’re looking at a pretty formidable package. We are confident no other consultancy is better qualified to help you make that crucial, next step in your career.
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