Senior Finance Business Partner (12-Months FTC) in Manchester

Job Description

Overview

Atkins Réalis have an opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner (SFBP) to join our team covering maternity leave.

Reporting directly to the Buildings and Places divisional finance director, the SFBP is responsible for the financial management of the North, Scotland and Northern Ireland (NSNI) Market and Practice.

Your role

• Be an influential member of the NSNI leadership team, providing evidence-based insights to enable leadership to optimise Market and Practice performance and deliver on key performance targets.
• Provide regular feedback to the leadership team on the NSNI financial results against its budget and forecast, the drivers of these results, and advice on corrective or accelerating actions that are required.
• Ongoing financial risk management including review of project forecasts, running costs, billing and debt.
• Work with stakeholders across the Market and Practice to develop and prepare our annual budget and quarterly forecasts.

Including agreement of key performance drivers and plan for delivery of future financial targets.

• Lead on the flight path toward each financial month-end. Drive and chase the required actions across the business to land the in-month results.
• Management of cash-flow, monitoring performance and providing support to the business and liaison with the SSF teams regarding billing and debt collection.
• Support to project managers and bid directors with pricing and bidding for opportunities, including review of bid models.
• Liaison with group functions as appropriate on tax, treasury, commercial, cosec and accounting issues.
• Ad hoc projects and support to the divisional finance director.
• Involvement with Atkins Réalis financial improvement initiatives. Champion roll-out of new finance and governance systems. Support delivery of improvements to reporting.

About you

• Strong academic record.
• A qualified accountant.
• Strong technical accounting skills. Broad understanding of tax and compliance matters relevant to the geography.
• The role will require travel, mainly within the UK.
• Demonstrable growth mindset, strong record of collaboration.
• Able to demonstrate curiosity about business and its drivers.
• Resilient and agile.
• Well-developed commercial acumen. Strong people skills; comfortable interacting with staff at all levels in a professional services business.
• Well-developed communication and influencing skills.
• Comfortable with speaking in public and capable of presenting with passion.
• Self-starter - able to show and use initiative.
• Empathetic but challenging; seeking continuous improvement of performance.
• Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.

Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

• Rewards and benefits – Careers at Atkins Réalis
• About Atkins Réalis
• We're

Atkins Réalis , a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization.

We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems.

Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world.

We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

• Additional information
• Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance.

If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview.

The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be.

So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria.

If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

• Worker Type
• Employee
• Job Type
• Contractual (Fixed Term)
• Atkins Réalis

, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives.

We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.