Finance Business Partner

Date: 13 Feb 2025

Location: Fareham, ENG, GB, PO15 7PA

Company: Specsavers

Ready to make a real impact in the world of commercial finance?

 

This role offers a unique opportunity to provide business partnering and support to your functional team, making sure that the business decisions are backed by solid financial insights.

 

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll dive into reporting, budgeting and planning, offering tailored financial support and advice across a range of topics and business areas. Your insights and analysis will be key in evaluating performance and driving key decisions. A big part of your role will involve supporting business partners with initiatives, financial investments and in-store trials, using your analysis and insights to guide business actions.

 

You’ll manage the monthly management accounting and reporting processes for agreed cost centres, making sure that stakeholders are fully informed about their financial positions and projected outcomes, feeding into a group wide forecast process and highlighting variances, risks and opportunities.

 

Driving the annual budgeting process for relevant business functions will also form part of your day-to-day tasks, working collaboratively with cost centre owners and Business Directors to make sure they understand their budgets and help mitigate any risks or concerns. Plus, you’ll continually review and adapt KPI reports to ensure they remain relevant and useful.

 

Your analytical skills will shine as you assess the impact of new initiatives, technology, or efficiency measures in the UK & ROI stores. You’ll track trials, make sure results are understood and learnings are applied to future business cases. Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners is also important, as will providing helpful feedback and challenge to make sure we make the best decisions.

 

To be the best in this role, you need to be ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified or newly qualified, and have a solid background in business partnering and knowledge of finance standards. Your excellent communication approach will help you engage and influence stakeholders at all levels. You’ll need to be able to tailor and translate complex financial information in a clear way, providing actionable insights for non-financial audiences. Strong Excel experience, a proactive approach and commercial awareness is a must.

 

This role closes on 27th February; however, we may close the advert sooner if we get inundated with high-quality applications. Apply now – you’ll be pleased that you did.

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