Our client is a Renewable / sustainability organisation seeking an addition to their finance team as Finance Business partner :
This role is responsible for developing strong business partnering relationships at all levels to support, review and challenge financial performance on an ongoing basis. The role will deliver strategic business planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, analysis and reporting to support key decisions and the achievement of the Division’s strategic growth objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
• Co-ordinate the development of strategic plans, budgets and forecasts for assigned business areas that are aligned with the achievement of the Division’s strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the business to identify and implement simplification and efficiency improvement in the financial planning processes and supporting systems.
• Deliver supporting analysis for forecasts and budgets for assigned areas throughout the year.
• Promote cost awareness, saving opportunities and a continuous improvement culture throughout the business, through regular engagement and a strong focus on costs.
• Support and challenge the business in delivering financial plans. Identify and communicate commercial opportunities and risks, and work with the business to create action plans to ensure targets are achieved.
Business Partnering
• Build strong working relationships within assigned business areas of responsibility and create a business partnership, providing active support, financial modelling, financial analysis and reporting to drive the delivery of strong business performance. • Develop and in-depth understanding of assigned business areas and related processes and systems. Identify key financial and management information required by the business to support decision making, and lead the development of appropriate reports with the finance team.
• Continually assess reporting requirements, monitor feedback and update reports in order to improve quality of information provided to support timely decision-making. • Create and present regular analysis in a clear, concise manner which includes robust variance analysis and key metric reports that demonstrates an understanding of key drivers and informs effective operational and strategic decision making.
Role Profile: Finance Business Partner, Coillte Forest
Reporting:
• Develop regular reporting and analysis for business areas, including variance analysis and key metric reports that support strategic and operational decision making.
• Work with the Finance team to ensure timely, accurate reporting and analysis of business performance against budget/forecast is delivered in the agreed template, with
supporting narrative that highlights key risks and areas requiring attention. Undertake root cause analysis for underperformance as required.
• Develop a strong knowledge of assigned forestry business areas, to enable effective business reporting and financial analysis. Actively communicate and collaborate with
business areas to track performance against performance indicators.
• Prepare budgets and forecasts, and report on working capital movements for assigned areas.
• Prepare quarterly general ledger account reconciliations, and process monthly journals for assigned business areas.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence, financial accountability and continuous improvement, driving simplification in all processes.
Investment Appraisal & Strategic Initiatives
• Work closely with the Finance Team on the strategic direction of the division, delivering the financials and supporting narrative for the Strategy and rolling 5 year plans.
• Actively participate in Strategic initiatives as required to support the achievement of the Division’s strategic ambitions.
• Support the appraisal of capital projects and new strategic business opportunities, through appropriate financial modelling and analyisis. Ensure that capital expenditure
opportunities have appropriate business cases to allow optimum allocation of capital resources.
• Responsibility to support the business areas in developing business cases for capital projects/additional expenditure. Work closely with the Capital Review Board to ensure
capital expenditure requirements are understood and required budgets are in place.
People/Team
• Coaching and mentoring of team members to develop a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate effectively with the wider Finance team to ensure alignment on the delivery of financial modelling and investment appraisals, planning, budgeting, reporting and
analysis.
• Provide support and back-up to the wider Finance team and Division as required.
• Act as a visible role model for the Group’s values.
Please contact Dave Riordan on 01 6377251 or dave.riordan@charteredaccountants.ie
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