Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with one of Edinburgh’s biggest names who are currently seeking a Finance Business Partner to join their team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, this role will play a pivotal role in ensuring strong financial governance of the capital expenditure programme. You will also identify key financial trends, drive improvement and provide insightful financial analysis.

Key Duties Include:

• Providing insightful analysis, interpretation and explanation of trends and variances across the business
• Monitoring and reporting on individual capital project spend against approved limits and working with project managers to ensure spend is well controlled
• Generating investment appraisals on capital projects measuring key financial metrics
• Producing post investment reviews of critical capital projects working with senior management to investigate the effectiveness of the capital programme
• Using your commercial acumen and knowledge of the business, you will identify and deliver cost productivity initiatives for the wider team and support the business to understand the concept of best cost
• You will hold full ownership and accountability for the annual budget with responsibility for ensuring alignment with business objectives, stakeholder support and sufficient rigor and control
• Leading the periodic re-forecast process, driving the future strategic direction of the business in the form of the annual five-year business plan
• Full ownership of the month-end process including variance analysis and reporting of financial performance to key stakeholders
• Providing insight and influencing the Executive team, Board and Shareholders on future costs and financial performance
• Responsible for the continuous improvement of monthly reporting to ensure it meets requirements of key stakeholders

Experience Required:

• Professional Qualified Accountant (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA), ideally with relevant years post-qualified experience
• Proven commercial experience influencing senior stakeholders and their decision making
• Experience in management reporting, planning, and budgeting skills
• Detailed understanding of best practice approaches to developing management information and business partnering
• Ability to work well within a team and influence key stakeholders

If you would like to work within a high performing team, have a passion for change and would like to add value in a commercial context, please apply with an up to date CV.