Grafton Banks Finance is recruiting a Finance Business Partner for a respected business in Brighton. The role offered hybrid working and free parking. The role is responsible for promoting cost transformation with ideas and insight. Proactively moving away from reactive to strategic interactions. Actively challenges and provides solid financial analysis to drive cost down. Will assist in building robust business cases and benefits tracking mechanisms for investment for whole life costs.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Financial analysis of actual monthly results/trends to provide increased cost visibility and ownership, ensuring a robust control environment and informed and insightful commentary.
• Lead the financial monthly business review process at project review meetings. Challenge the business to drive sustainable value proactively through informed and insightful decision making.
• Partner with the Directorates to provide financial insight and analysis to allow informed added value decisions to be made and robust, challenging yet achievable budgets and forecasts to be agreed.
• Provide technical advice to the business on the application of accounting policies and changes to accounting rules and legislation
• Financial governance and management of change initiatives with appropriate efficiency metrics ensuring that all relevant financial and regulatory policies are adhered to.
• Develop key relationships with key stakeholders and provide direct support to Local Management for all Finance Topics (including commercial support, business case composure, post investment appraisals, ad-hoc analysis and cost management).
• Represents the business partner area within the Finance Function and vice versa, in order to facilitate mutual understanding and alignment and to resolve any potential issues in an effective and prompt manner.
• To provide support to the Price Review and understand the impact of any variances

This is a genuine value adding commercial finance opportunity allowing the successful candidate to raise their profile across the business. You will be rewarded with a bonus scheme, excellent pension, 25 days holiday, hybrid working and free parking.