Finance Business Partner

Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join a large Logistics company based in Birmingham.

This is an excellent opportunity offering career progression and exposure to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Reporting on the Division's KPIs, including financial performance, variance analysis, margin analysis, cost control and forecasting
Prepare weekly Flash analysis and monthly divisional reports and assist Division leadership with commentary and insights presentation to Group CEO and CFO
To participate in the logistics leadership team and actively support the managers within the team to ensure overall targets are achieved
To complete ad hoc duties and tasks allocated through line management chain from time to time
The role involves working closely with the divisional leadership team to achieve revenue to enable informed business decisions.
This person must have a strong detail focus and financial skills to process significant amounts of data to identify and extract key trends and exceptions.
They must also have a good understanding of overall divisional performance and financial results.
Lead divisional budget and forecasting processes from end to end
Provide high quality analysis and insights to maximise and shape growth and gross margin
Robust business modelling reflecting accurate cost to serve metrics for compliant service pricing for new business opportunities and contract renewals
Compare and analyse depot P&Ls, identifying and resolving discrepancies
Reconciliation of financial information from around the business
Identify profit enhancement opportunities
Ad hoc finance duties including working with the Controllership team on the implementation and testing of new processes, systems and controls as well as FP&A on central reporting
Demonstrate a good understanding of overall divisional performance and financial results to Division and Group leadershipRequirements:

Qualified ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent
Must have previous experience within a Logistics environment
Able to present information and analysis in a format that is easily understood by the audience
Resilient - able to work under pressure and to deadlines
Strong attention to detail
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