Finance Business Partner

This is a newly evolved Finance Business Partner position, designed to move beyond traditional finance management and provide genuine commercial partnership to a growing franchise business.Business Partnering & Commercial Finance

• Partner with operational leaders across the business to provide financial insight and support decision-making.
• Challenge performance constructively and identify opportunities to improve profitability and operational efficiency.
• Support revenue growth initiatives through analysis, reporting and actionable recommendations.
• Support the development of dashboards and performance reporting tools.
• Support acquisition activities, due diligence and business integration projects.

• Work directly with our cloud data warehouse, which holds transaction-level trading data for the whole estate; sales, labour, waste, stock etc and P&L's. A great deal of the insight in this business comes from querying it directly, and we will support you to learn the query language if you don't already have it.
• Combine warehouse data with the management accounts to produce reporting that is genuinely forward-looking.

Management Accounting & Financial Control

• Lead the period end management accounts.
• Oversee Balance Sheet Reconciliations ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Using automation, AI-enabled tools and operational data to improve forward-looking insight.
• Oversee P&L performance across a large multi-site estate.
• Deliver variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Produce financial packs and management information for senior leadership.
• Monitor key performance indicators and communicate trends and risks.
• Support cash flow reporting and working capital management.
• Ensure financial integrity whilst maintaining a pragmatic and commercial mindset.