高级财务业务伙伴
Senior Finance Business Partner
合同类型：全职，固定期限6个月
地点：布赖顿，布赖顿总部 - 远程
作为业务伙伴和商业负责人加入我们，与执行委员会的利益相关者合作，影响决策并推动业务表现。你将提供深入的商业洞察，领导业务方案开发与评估的标准化，加强成本管理，并在关键业务项目和变革计划中推广商业财务。
职位简介
业务伙伴与关系管理
· 主动提供前瞻性洞察和分析，通过全面审视业务，确保业务伙伴工作的统一性。
- 识别业务中的关键机会和风险，向相关部门传达这些信息，并制定行动计划以支持并跟进这些计划
- 领导加强学生获取成本的财务控制，包括折扣、佣金和相关费用驱动因素
- 利用数据并改进 Power BI 的使用，作为核心数据源以支持更好的分析洞察
- 确保为业务提供高质量的分析、报告、基准比较、KPI 识别与衡量以及历史趋势，以实现主动决策
- 在组织范围内的项目、变革举措、核心流程和系统评估与实施中，代表商业财务的利益和需求
- 确保了解并融入行业基准、竞争对手分析、市场趋势以及影响业务表现的宏观因素
- 在更广泛的业务中倡导增长和成本效率的理念，作为推动业务前进的两个关键原则
- 协调业务伙伴团队和更广泛的财务同事，确保业务方案的准备和评估采用标准化方法，提供财务评估并评估财务影响，覆盖整个产品组合，并建立内部跨产品组合的基准机制
- 对资本投资业务方案的准备和评估进行监督（在适当情况下拥有所有权），确保组织内采用标准化模型
- 建立项目实施后的评估机制
- 对商业决策提出挑战，包括但不限于：关卡会议、预测周期、商业委员会
- 保持清晰的工作文件/目录
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Contract Type: Full Time, Fixed Term 6 months
Location: Brighton, Brighton Head Office - Remote
Join us as a Business Partner and Commercial Lead, partnering with Executive Committee stakeholders to influence decision-making and drive business performance. You'll deliver deep commercial insight, lead the standardisation of business case development and evaluation, strengthen cost management, and champion Commercial Finance across key business projects and change programmes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Business Partnering and Relationship Management
· Be proactive in producing forward looking insight and analysis and ensure a joined-up approach to Business Partnering by taking a holistic view across the business.
- Identify key areas of opportunities and risks across the business, communicating these to the business areas and devising actions plans to support and follow these plans through
- Lead efforts to strengthen financial controls over student acquisition costs, including discounts, commissions, and related expense drivers
- Use data and improve use of Power BI as golden source to support better insight for analysis
- Ensure the delivery and quality of analysis, reports, benchmarking, KPI identification and measurement, and historical trends to the business to enable proactive decision making.
- Representing the interests and requirements of commercial finance in organisation-wide projects, change initiatives, core process and systems evaluation and implementation.
- Ensure awareness of and incorporate industry benchmarking, competitor analysis, market trends, macro factors impacting business performance.
- Champion a growth and cost efficiency mindset across wider business as two key principles to move the business forward
- Co-ordinate with Business Partner team and wider Finance colleagues to ensure a standardised approach to preparation and evaluation of business cases, that provide financial evaluation and assess financial implications, across the portfolio and establish a mechanism of internal cross-portfolio benchmarking.
- Oversight (and ownership, where appropriate) of capital investment business case preparation and evaluation, ensuring a standardised model across the organisation.
- Establish a mechanism for post-implementation project evaluation.
- Challenge the business on commercial decisions including, but not limited to: Gate Meetings, Forecasting Cycles, Commercial Committees
- Have and maintain clear working files / directory across the team which are clean and easy to use (e.g.: for business cases / scenarios)
- Foster and drive improved team capability, financial models, and processes to deliver enhanced and standardised commercial analysis across the business.
- Provide commercial expertise in the preparation (and delivery) of reporting and operational presentations to Study Group Senior Leadership Team and Executive Committee.
- Continuous improvement – identify and feed in improvements to the planning process in striving towards best practise.
- Working closely with FP&A team to ensure clear lines of accountability working in collaborative approach
- Collaborate with HR and other key partners to align on data and insights, strategies and expectations, working closely to solve problems and ensure compliance.
- Ensure CFO and Director of Commercial Finance are kept up to date through maintaining the project activity planner and tracker
- Taking ownership of the monthly P&L results analysis to highlight improvement areas and to manage the vehicles which non finance stakeholders are engaged on their performance (monthly meetings etc)
Leadership
· Deputising for Head of FBP and Director of Commercial Finance where appropriate, involving providing project-based Finance support to members of the Executive Committee and other key stakeholders.
- Leadership and development across the wider Commercial Finance team through providing thought leadership, coordination and mentoring.
- Demonstrate influence and authority through the co-ordination of team wide activities where required to deliver successful outcomes consistently and efficiently.
- Acting as a champion for process improvement and helping to set the bar high for driving value into the business
ABOUT YOU
Essential
· Be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent such as ISCA, CPA)
- An experienced Finance Business Partner, with a commercial outlook, who has worked with senior stakeholders in a complex, preferably global, matrix organisation.
- Record of accomplishment of collating and analysing both financial and non-financial data and sharing resulting information and insight to support business decision making.
- Strong proven leadership skills, whether through formal management, deputising responsibilities, or informal mentoring
Desirable
· Experience of working with analytical tools such as Adaptive, PowerBI
- Previous experience of working in a business model which has business facing roles supported by Finance Centres of Excellence/Shared Services teams.
- Project based work experience would be beneficial
ABOUT US
Study Group is a leading international education provider that is dedicated and passionate about helping students around the world, creating a brighter future and reaching their full potential. We are a trusted international educator to students and more than 50 university partners globally. We deliver high-quality international education solutions that drive success for our partners and students. We are able to provide students with the resources and guidance they need to succeed. Our global network of offices and university partnerships ensure that students receive the best educational services available.
ORGANISATION COMPLIANCE
For successful applicants the following checks will be conducted- Criminal Background Check (country specific), x2 References, ID and Right to Work checks as well as Education Verification. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and we strive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality, or any other factor. We believe that the best person for the job should be selected based on skills and experience alone. Your information will be kept confidential and stored securely. Please see our Privacy Policy.
We adopt a rolling recruitment process meaning that we review applications as they are submitted. To avoid disappointment, please ensure that you apply ASAP.
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