Finance Business Partner

The Company

My client is an internationally acclaimed fashion media company based in the West End.

The Role:

Reporting to the Finance Director, you will be responsible for month-end duties and ensuring compliance with internal & external financial regulations. You will help to drive change, improve processes and increase efficiency. There will also be a commercial element with this role with business partnering and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Prepare accurate management account, ensuring that best practice accounting policies are followed.
• Responsibility for annual budgeting and forecasting process, including forecast revisions throughout the year.
• Provide timely and accurate management support and analysis, identifying key issues including deviations from budgets and forecast revisions.
• Monitor and reconcile balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
• Business partnering support to brand teams.
• Ad hoc analysis for Senior Management team and Head Office.
• Work closely alongside the wider Finance team as well as other departments
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all reporting.
• Provide support for annual audit process.
• Bank account approver.
• Responsible for managing one team member.
• Provide financial and business expertise to other ad-hoc projects.
• Opportunity for involvement in systems implementation and upgrades.

Qualifications / Previous experience:

• A first or 2:1 degree.
• Newly Qualified ACA (or equivalent), with 1st time exam passes
• 3-5 years relevant accounting experience
• Strong communications, influencing and interpersonal skills and a pro-active approach to challenges.