Strategic Finance Partner

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business to support strategic goals and manage costs.
• Develop, shape, and influence strategic direction, providing high-quality advice and insight.
• Report to Finance Director, gaining valuable experience and advancing career.
• Lead a team of Finance professionals supporting business areas.
• Deliver critical review and challenge for optimal resource use in investment decisions and business cases.
• Proactively influence cost and capital management leadership within the business.
• Oversee strategic finance activities, including product overlays for plan, forecast, and stress scenarios.
• Drive all business finance requirements (month-end, strategic planning, forecasting, functional reporting), ensuring timely issue escalation.
• Coach and develop a team of finance professionals, offering a positive customer experience and career enhancement.

Skills and Expertise

• Qualified accountant with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and conflict resolution skills at ExCo level.
• Strategic awareness and business knowledge, with expertise in challenging and supporting business plans.
• Understanding of long-term impacts of plans.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, and risk in a flexible environment.
• Strong finance functional knowledge, accounting knowledge with a focus on commerciality.
• Ability to provoke and lead strategic change within senior executive teams.
• Leadership and motivational skills for developing a finance team.