Finance Business Partner

Harper May is exclusively partnering with a real estate company. They are presently in search of an experienced Finance Business Partner to join their Finance team. This company is at the forefront of the real estate sector and is poised for rapid expansion. The selected candidate will be based at the company's headquarters in Central London and will work closely with the FP&A Director to promote the growth and improvement of the financial team.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner closely with business leaders to understand revenue and investment drivers, to unblock commercial challenges and translate into consistent forecasting.

• Work closely to ensure consistency between long term forecasting, annual planning and monthly forecasting

• Support the business units to drive strategic decision-making, analysis and business development

• Ensure the governance and approval policies are effectively communicated and adhered to

• Actively play a role in progression and improvement of technology, creating efficiencies and data at your fingertips.

• Present monthly P&L to the department leads, highlighting key risks and opportunities, driving value and working closely with the commercial team.

• Follow up action items with the relevant owners

• Undertake regular financial project reviews to cover effective cash management, profit maximisation, optimising working capital requirements.

• Support the budget and planning process to create a sustainable and credible plan for the business unit, highlighting any issues with proposed

           recommendations to ensure clear financial goals

• Finance support in relation to cost management.

• Finance support to ensure budgeting

• Forecasting is done monthly, half yearly, annually.

• Finance support in relation to ad hoc projects, pricing, leasing, deal etc.

• Anything with a finance aspect requires finance input and must be reported into FP&A and obtain finances approval.

 Qualifications and experience:

• FP&A experience in a global firm

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CA)

• Business partnering

• Strong presentation, analytical skills, people management, communication and organisation skills

• Problem solver, provide recommendations and solutions to challenges