Finance Business Partner

Overview

Internal Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Business: Lucy Electric - Energy Services
Location: Thame, Oxfordshire
Job Reference No: 4403

Job Purpose: To build and maintain strong partnerships with senior managers and their teams within the Lucy Electric UK businesses, developing complex analyses and delivering financial insight to enhance decision making and influence business strategy.

Business Overview: Lucy Electric is an international leader in intelligent secondary power distribution products and solutions, with features such as remote operation and monitoring. Linking energy generation to consumption, the business specialises in high-performance medium and low-voltage switchgear for utility, industrial and commercial applications.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Financial Analysis:
  • Understand the business's information requirements and proactively provide financial and business support/analysis/reports that meet these requirements, and provide insight into the day to day activities as well as the strategic tasks.
  • Support business initiatives including the development of business cases, business model definition, 'what if' scenarios and projections - including discounted cash flows, net present values and other appropriate measures of the success of projects and initiatives.
  • Financial modelling and investment decision support, in order to drive business change.
  • Support UK Sales and Tendering, with full financial responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of high value quotations, and verifying that all business risks have been considered during the process.
  • Prepare monthly management reports by project, perform analysis on project performance Vs forecast/budget.

• Other Business Support Activities
  • Undertake other duties within the Finance department to ensure both internal and external customers' requirements are met.
  • Project Management and Contracts - responsibility for ensuring that financial controls are in place to safeguard the accuracy of financial data for projects. Also, to improve and maintain reporting to a level sufficient to satisfy the needs of both Finance and Project Management.
  • Support Financial Controller during the annual budget, quarterly forecast processes and month-end processes
  • Work with the D365 team to develop Activity based costing and reporting, in order to both accurately account for service work performed, and to enable improved reporting thereof.

Experience & Knowledge

• Commercially strong with an ability to identify and shape opportunities/risks, influencing behaviour and decisions which improve business results.
• Experience of working in multinational engineering organisation and be accustomed to partnering multi-functional stakeholders at a senior level.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability quickly to grasp the 'big picture' and exhibit judgment in drawing conclusions and solving problems.
• Experience in a senior Finance Management role with P&L and balance sheet accountability.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office software and finance packages.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in both one to one and group environments, with the ability to communicate complex financial data to non-finance employees.
• Ability to create and use complex financial models for development and analysis of the business.
• Project accounting experience is essential in addition to a familiarity with IFRS 15

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant or finalist (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Skills

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills at all levels
• Ability to influence and direct people
• Must be able to work independently for significant periods of time
• Ability to demonstrate effective team working across all disciplines within the company
• Able to prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality and attention to detail
• Excellent Excel modelling skills
• Ability to write financial policy and procedure documents

Relevant Professional Membership

• Recognised accountancy body

Behavioural Competencies

• Good interpersonal skills
• Highly organised
• An ability to multitask
• Good attention to detail
• Good understanding of business as well as financial issues
• Able to make decisions and prioritise
• An ability to work to tight deadlines
• Pro active