Business Partner
Responsibilities
Act as a business partner to support functions across the Group, maintaining dialogue with key stakeholders and ensuring internal customer requirements are understood and met
Provide reliable and timely financial and management information to both cost centre managers and business lines to ensure effective financial control.
Create and review annual budgets and forecasts of costs and allocation keys with both cost centre managers and the business streams.
Preparation of month-end cost centre reports and review against budget with department heads ensuring variances are fully reviewed and a strong cost control culture is embedded in the business.
Update of allocation key in Hyperion Essbase for costs to be shared across all business streams, including challenge to cost centre managers of keys provided by them, converting and processing the allocation key through Essbase and provision of summaries of resulting cost allocations to business line heads to support their management of business stream PLs.
As required liaison with external auditors in relation to year-end statutory accounts and assistance with preparation of annual statutory accounts and notes.
Qualified accountant (ACA-CIMA-ACCA)
Experience of cost accounting and cost allocations in a commercial environment
Experience of using Hyperion Essbase and Excel add-in; or Excel with a multi-dimensional reporting systems
The following would be beneficial, but not required:
Experience in Financial Services
Strong IFRS knowledge
Working knowledge of French (beneficial)
An established financial services client
Competitive banking package
Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.
Please quote Michael Page reference when applying Job ref:MPGX13238801
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