Senior Finance Business Partner in London

Senior Finance Business Partner

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the UK.

Within our construct business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Job Overview

Your role is to drive the delivery of effective financial management, control and advisory support for Business Unit and projects/contracts. You will support the production of financial budgets, forecasts and analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Project Managers to help drive project performance and ensure that high quality financial decisions are made on the project.

• Provide objective financial advice and opinions that positively impact the future of the project and associated plan

• Provide objective challenge regarding spend plans and take a proactive role in looking for opportunities to deliver services more efficiently and effectively.

• Investigate opportunities as well as high risk and material financial issues, or problem areas, on the projects.

• Develop and propose solutions and options to resolve/progress concerns to satisfactory outcomes.

• Support the Project Managers in assuming greater degrees of financial accountability by providing local coaching and training to improve financial confidence and competence across the Business Units.

• Collaborate with the Commercial Team to provide forward looking insight and challenge, adding demonstrable value through delivering business insight.

• Review financial performance information and plans, (prepared by the Project Manager) – including the Financial Plan, Budget and Forecast, to ensure they are robust and accurately reflect key project issues.

• Ensure good cost control and cost management behaviour on projects.

• Promote good financial disciplines and risk management processes.

• Ensure a robust and effective internal control framework and compliance environment exists across the project and addresses risk management processes.

• Ensures accounting processes on projects (billing, management of revenue and capitalisation of projects) are disciplined and effective

• Work proactively with key Project Managers to develop successful partnering relationships.

• Influence and challenge financial plans.

• Collaborate with members of the Finance Business Partner community (across other Business Units) to promote and share business partnering ideas, learnings, experiences and best practice.

• Develop an effective relationship with key staff in the Oracle Support Centre.

• Collaborate with Super Users and support the development of an effective network. The Super Users will be used to help the Senior Finance Business Partners to manage peaks and troughs of workload and to help Project Managers resolve issues.

• Support Project Managers with the creation, amendment, maintenance and review of Project Financial Plans, Budgets and Forecasts.

• Support the set-up of projects and tasks structures so that the appropriate management information can be extracted.

• Act as a critical adviser on key financial decisions.

• Manage direct reports (Finance Business Partners, carrying out performance management reviews and acting as a point of escalation where required.

• Act as a positive representative for Finance with business stakeholders.

• Suggest good practice ideas into Finance and support their adoption on a continuous improvement basis to improve service, quality and/or efficiency.

• Facilitate collaboration between team members through sharing information, collaborating on decision making, and taking mutual responsibility for the work of the team.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong knowledge and experience in budgeting, planning and forecasting.

• Strong knowledge and experience in management reporting and analysis.

• Ability to provide actionable insight and recommendation to business counterparts.

• Strong ability to provide sound project financial advice.

• Adaptable and influential; able to deliver information in a digestible way to their audience, with clarity and precision.

• Comfortable with risk and working with ambiguity.

• Strong attention to quality and detail.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong relationships at all levels.

• Ability to solve problems through the manipulation and interpretation of relevant data.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.

• Financial/accounting experience.

• Professional accounting qualification e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, (or equivalent) qualification.

• Degree (or equivalent) standard of education.

• Demonstrable experience in delivering a Finance Business Partner role.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.