Finance Business Partner

Axon Moore are recruiting a Finance Business Partner on behalf of an exciting and growing business in Wigan.

This is a newly created role that will hold a high degree of autonomy to manage the commercial and operational performance of across several divisions. Responsibilities include:

• Producing annual financial budgets, regular forecasting and scenario planning (P&L)
• Regular review and challenge of budget assumptions
• Work with the FP&A team to manage the production of the weekly flash results in a timely and efficient manner
• Manage and coordinate weekly reporting process from sites for flash results ensuring integrity of data
• Assist in standardising and improving the weekly flash reporting process
• Work with the FP&A team to measure and develop business relevant KPIs
• Perform trend and variance analysis on flash, budget, prior year, actual and forecasting results preparing explanations and identifying areas for cost savings
• Assist the FP&A team at month end in conjunction with the management accounting team to identify month end adjustments required and to provide feedback into flash model
• Understand, challenge and improve current site operational and financial processes and procedures
• Proactively perform financial analysis leading to the successful implementation of cost reduction initiatives

Ideally candidates will be nearly or newly qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with strong commercial awareness, analytical ability and able to manage multiple workstreams.

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on kgoulding@axonmoore.com or on 07464 598852.