Finance Business Partner Job in Kettering

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Finance Business Partner Job in Kettering

Job Description
At National Accident Law, the home of National Accident Helpline, we live by our values of ‘We are curious’, ‘We are driven’, ‘We are passionate’ and ‘We are unified’ and our people do too. Whether it be helping people to start their recovery journey, supporting our panel of solicitor firms, or working together across departments to achieve results our people work as one team.

At National Accident Law, we work differently to handle compensation claims in a modern, imaginative, and refreshingly personal way. We are looking for the curious minds that can shape and drive innovation in accident injury law.

You can join us too and play your part in making a real difference to our consumers and benefiting from working for a successful market leader.

THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The objective of the role is to be the conduit between the business and finance to identify trends and opportunities. Create action plans to improve profitability and increase efficiency both in finance and across the wider business. You will work with operational teams to identify opportunities and mitigate risks as well as supporting internal customers in all finance related matters including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control. This is a purely business partnering role, whilst there are no month-end responsibilities knowledge and experience of the accounting function is necessary to be successful in the role.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Weekly and Monthly KPI Reporting: Production and development of regular MI to allow the business to make effective decisions and drive performance. Working with the business and finance to identify and fill the MI needs required to achieve our plans.
• Drive performance reviews to monitor and challenge the business, ensuring financials are insightful and drive decision making.
• Process and system improvements: Identify and collaborate with finance and IT to action process and system improvements, demonstrating a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Finance lead on projects necessary to deliver our strategic objectives.
• Cost Monitoring: Setting up and monitoring internal cost and headcount budgets including reviews with the budget owners.
• Month end closure: Feeding into the month end closure variance analysis and commentary to turn the numbers into a story that facilitates the decision-making process.
• Forecasting and Budgeting assistance: Weekly and monthly forecasting, quarterly forecasting, and annual budgets.
• Ad-hoc analysis as required

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Advanced Excel skills with ability to analyse large volume of data
• Experience of a purely business partnering role
• Strong financial modelling and stakeholder management skills
• Power BI experience is desirable
• Fully qualified or newly qualified accountant

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to use own initiative and confident to challenge points of view in a constructive manner
• Ability to work independently and meeting tight deadlines
• Ability to constructively challenge and agree plans to improve profitability
• Curious to challenge the status quo
• Unified in working together for the same gaols and vision
• Driven to achieve, succeed and progress
• Passionate about our customers, our business and personal performance

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer 25 days holiday, a contributory pension and a healthcare scheme with Simply Health. We have regular communication events, yearly award ceremonies and we have achieved Gold standard for Investors in People.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We value individuals

We enjoy generating ideas and we never stand still. You'll always have the right tools to do your job and create better ways of serving our customers. Nor are we wedded to set ways of working or rigid thinking: where you can spot improvements, your voice will always be heard.

We take work seriously

Most of us spend more time working in our waking lives than any other activity. That's why we make the effort to create an enjoyable and satisfying working environment. One that gives you every opportunity to develop professionally – in your way and at your pace.

We value innovation

We are at the cutting edge of personal injury legal services and we seek the free-thinking minds that will drive our business forward. Investing heavily in easy-to-use new technology and customer service skills, we're a different breed of law firm.

We're going places

At National Accident Law, we work differently to handle compensation claims in a modern, imaginative and refreshingly personal way. We're looking for the curious minds that can shape and drive innovation in accident injury law

Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Kettering – Hybrid and Remote
Salary: £50,000
Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday.
Benefits: Competitive

You may have experience of the following: Finance Business Partner, Finance Manager, Financial Business Partner, Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Management, Head of Finance, Senior Accountant, Management Accountant, Corporate Accountant, Financial Controller, CCAB, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, Not for Profit, NFP, Charity, Third Sector, etc.

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Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Kettering
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Kettering
County: Northamptonshire
Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £50000/annum
Benefits: