Finance Business Partner

About Our Client

International manufacturing company

Job Description

• Support the budgeting and long-range financial planning process ensuring an accurate, complete and timely plan is created on an annual basis.
• Partner with business leaders and financial directors to ensure a clear understanding of the budgeting processes and tools used including management and facilitation of the monthly forecast process.
• Communicate business unit financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications.
• Support the quarterly forecast process as well as the resulting business reviews.
• Complete analysis of actual results to provide meaningful insight into the company's financial performance including in-depth explanations on deviations from plan and forecast.
• Develop and interpret detailed and complex financial models to provide international leadership with the information needed to make strategic decisions.
• Take ownership of the Company's financial systems to ensure Finance is using technological tools efficiently and effectively.
• Coordinate working capital improvement initiatives.
• Leverage current systems and business knowledge to continuously improve business practices, internal financial processes, and other efficiencies while serving critical business needs.
• Perform and support ad-hoc financial analysis projects.
• Build business case for strategic initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to varied audiences and effectively communicate financial concepts to non-financial audiences.

The Successful Applicant

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of financial analysis experience in a multinational corporate environment
• Understanding of financial statements and basic accounting rules with strong analytical abilities and strategic thinking skills
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint and experience preparing presentations
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Proven ability to interact and thrive in a fast-paced, team-based environment
• Solid expertise of business processes, information technology, and their effect on financial statements.
• Proven experience analyzing moderate to complex financial information, historical financial results, and market data (including emerging trends) to develop recommendations.
• Demonstrated business orientation, excellent analytical capabilities, and strategic decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities with proven track record of generating high quality innovative solutions.
• Willingness to work flexible hours (if/when needed) to coordinate various stakeholders across different time zones

What's on Offer

base + bonus + benefits