Senior Finance Business Partner
Location: Warrington
Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.
We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.
This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.
The Senior Finance Business Partner provides strategic insights to the operational business units driving improved margins and cash conversion. The role works closely with all non-finance functions and operational businesses to drive business improvements and enhanced control throughout the business.
- Work closely with Commercial and Operational management, providing financial insight to drive business improvement through higher margins and faster cash conversion. Providing timely and accurate financial analysis and management information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Developing the team of Finance Business Partners team
- Working with the Senior Finance Leadership Team to carry out the wider finance strategy.
- Supporting ERP optimisation within the finance team, as part of projects and ongoing Continuous Improvement.
- To review and approve month end reporting for contracts, engaging with the commercial team around specifics and ensuring that the UK entities reporting is robust and timeously reported to Group.
- Understand and minimize the working capital requirements of the business by carrying out monthly debt and WIP reviews and influencing payment terms in contracts / bids
- Become the trusted Finance partner for commercial / operational stakeholders
- Attend commercial reviews and project boards, improving processes and driving actions
- Support the continuous improvement, margin improvement process, providing facts and evidence of improvements and sharing knowledge between business units.
- Support the budgeting and rolling forecast process ensuring that balanced yet challenging targets and set and achieved.
- Review estimates and tenders to validate margin estimates and cash flow forecasts
- Drive change and improvement within the department and wider business processes.
- Supporting ad hoc projects and transformation initiatives as required
Skills required;
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Demonstrable FP&A and commercial finance experience.
- Experience of working cross functionally with multiple stakeholders.
- Commercial and resilient character with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Strong MS Office skills particularly excel and PowerBI.
- Experience of using ERP systems.
Desired Skills
Experience of using SAP
- Engineering / professional services sector experience.
If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.
General Management | Bilfinger UK Limited | Permanent | White-collar workers | Professional | Finance & Controlling - General Finance
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