Finance Business Partner

Resourcery Group are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner for one of the North West's best employers. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a fantastic professional services firm in the heart of Liverpool. Our client is renowned as an excellent place to work and the successful candidate will join a highly respected finance team in what is a value adding and highly visible role. The Senior Finance Business Partner will work with the Finance Director and senior stakeholders to drive profitability and business performance. We are looking for someone with considerable gravitas and first class communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels. 

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the FD and Senior Leadership group to drive financial performance and providing strategic support in the group. Effectively operating as Finance Director of the business group.
• Lead monthly dashboard meetings on financial performance
• Lead individual monthly financial review with Team Leaders.
• Report on financial performance and key issues in monthly Team Leader meetings.
• Report on financial performance and focus on key issues/topics in team meetings
• Provide insight and analysis into key aspects of performance, to highlight issues and drive improved behaviours.
• Provide analysis of client performance for both individual clients and groupings of clients
• Take responsibility for financial information and its output within the business group and out to the wider business.  
• Develop and lead training project to improve financial awareness amongst Fee Earners.  Develop and lead initiatives to improve revenue recovery and drive billing.  
• Support on client pitches and pricing by providing dynamic and insightful input.  Advise on tender pricing.
• Challenge performance, future plans and outlook.
• Responsibility for driving desired behaviours with regards to lock up, through training, providing insight and analysis and reporting this to FEs, managing review processes.
• Lead budget process, salary reviews, bonus setting.
• Support on strategic growth opportunities, including creating business cases for lateral hires and potential acquisitions/mergers. 

Key Requirements

• Experienced and Qualified Accountant - CIMA, ACA or ACCA 
• Advanced Excel skills
• Management reporting - significant development experience or capability to be demonstrated of management information and KPIs
• Management accounting - strong technical competence, familiarity and experience of KPIs, costing, pricing models specifically profitability analysis at all levels
• Commercial orientation - involvement in commercial tenders, ability to react rapidly and flexible to assist win commercial opportunities 
• Team player / winner - demonstrable partnering business leaders, not just an accountant; must be a key part of the team
• Bottom line focus - sharp focus on improving bottom line results; specific example of personal achievement to be shared
• Client service focus - clear understanding of internal and external clients' needs and the ability to add value
• Communicator / influencer - proven experience of working alongside / influencing key management in a business unit, respected by colleagues in current and or previous roles
• Profitability analysis to levels of client, product and business units
• Confident and competent presentation and report writing skills

 Our client has an impressive office in central Liverpool but has also embraced hybrid working and the Senior Finance Business Partner will be able to work from home for part of the working week.