Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with a highly respected employer in the Inverclyde area to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis.  This is an exceptional opportunity for a qualified accountant with first-rate stakeholder management skills to commercially influence the business and mitigate financial risks.

This role provides support to department leaders, managing management accounts for these areas and supporting quarterly business reviews.

Duties will include:

• Act as a trusted business partner for assigned Executive Director and other stakeholders, adding value through insight, challenge and support. Demonstrate awareness of key commercial and financial risks impacting department, supporting mitigating actions or activities as required.
• Support finance colleagues in planning & reporting and accounting with shared commitment to meet deadlines.
• Working closely with other business support leads within Finance Team driving continuous process improvement, standardization and innovation.
• Close month end tasks on time as defined by Accounting Team.
• Deliver insightful monthly reporting pack to Executive area tracking financial performance against business plan and budget.
• Key support function for Executive area business plan and budget delivering outputs aligned to defined Planning & Reporting Team process. This includes headcount planning, key expenditure phasing and providing end to end support for business area.
• Planning forecast updates supporting content for quarterly business review presentation packs reviewed with Executive and delivered to deadline

On offer:

• Salary circa £50,000
• Holidays:  37 days
• Pension - Final Salary
• Bonus - Discretionary
• Hours:  8:30-5:00