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Joint Venture Finance Business Partner

Employer
Vision Express
Location
Ruddington, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Nov 21, 2019

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Job Role
Finance Business Partner
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Overview At Vision Express we are committed to providing our customers with outstanding service delivered by outstanding people. From our stores to our support office... everyone has a key part to play. We're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Support Centre in Ruddington, Nottingham. You'll be the store facing finance partner who will provide guidance and support to our Joint Venture Partners and Business Operations Managers. You'll be working closely with the Joint Venture Partners and pro-actively work with Business Operations Managers to create an annual budget, as well as review KPI performance and drive improved sales and profit performance. You'll have full accountability of each store within the Region for Profit and Loss, Cashflow and Balance Sheet. You'll contribute to supporting Business Development, including Business Plan meetings where a 10-year forecast is created with the new potential Joint Venture Partner. Job Requirements Key duties and responsibilities include:
• Challenge all areas of the Profit and Loss account, suggesting solutions and remedial actions where applicable
• Be able to work cross functionally with all areas of the business to enable efficient and effective support
• Preparation of Management Accounts Packs including variance analysis
• Preparation of annual Budget
• Monitoring of Commercial performance against last year, Budget and against current promotions
• Prepare and carry out 10-year business plans to support new partners
• Attend stores with Business Operations Managers that need additional financial support
• Support the JV finance manager in the Finance Champion Group and ensure all actions are cascaded
• Develop Macros to reduce manual input and provide efficiencies across the team
• Review future cash-flows ensuring all known business changes are reflected so that accurate and legal dividends can be provided to the partners
• Work with Property and Facilities to raise Loan paperwork for any equipment purchases or Refits
• Chair departmental monthly meetings to ensure correct forecasting of future performance
• Answer Ad-hoc queries from partners
• Deputise for the JV Finance manager in their absence, working with the Head of Joint Venture Operations and the Joint Venture & Property Director. To be successful you'll need:
• A recognised Professional accounting qualification (Or in final stages of receiving qualification)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build rapport quickly and effectively
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritise accordingly
• Commercially aware with the ability to spot trends and anomalies within large data sets
• Be able to flip between interrogating line item detail in the ledger to higher Macro level to see the bigger picture
• Self-motivated and well organised
• Can-do attitude with a desire to learn and push outside your comfort zone
• Ambition for further future career development and progression
• Previous work with SAP and Smart View/Essbase would be advantageous
• Experience in a similar Partnering role would be an advantage
• Committed to the team and working together to achieve all deliverables
• Advance Excel Skills
• Ability to read & write Macros in VBA would be advantageous

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