Job description
Sewell Wallis are delighted to be working with a large organisation based in east Leeds who are going through a rapid period of expansion, particularly after completing on their biggest acquisition to date. They therefore now require an experienced Finance Business Partner to focus on leading the Financial Planning & Analysis function for a particular division within the business.This high-profile role is a pivotal part of the finance team, and requires someone confident and ambitious with a proven record of successful business partnering and adding value across an organisation.
Reporting into a highly successful Finance Director, who has demonstrated how much career progression is within this business, your role will focus on the following areas:-
-Developing commercial pricing propositions for existing customers and new business opportunities
-Take ownership of the weekly/monthly and annual P&L forecasts as well as leading the annual budgeting process
-Develop and maintain framework to understand customer profitability
-Identify gross margin profit and revenue growth
-Create and maintain tools to help the business understand cost efficiencies for each key spend areas
-Develop existing suite of management information focusing on creating insightful MI to support decision making
-Manage one Analyst, holding regular one to ones and formulating development plans/delegating where appropriate
-Effectively business partner with the Operations and Commercial areas of the business, demonstrating strong stakeholder management skills throughout
-Lead the financial onboarding of new customers
To be considered for this highly commercial opportunity, you must be a qualified accountant with demonstrable experience working within an FP&A function. You will need to be career driven and self-motivated with experience working in a fast paced and complex organisation.
Please contact Lucy Regan or Emma Dugdale for further information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
