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Finance Business Partner

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

We have a rare opportunity for a qualified accountant to join our UK&I Centre of Excellence as a Finance Business Partner.

In this role you’ll be responsible for providing support and advice to the Managing Directors to maximise the profitability of the Leisure and Cultural Destinations divisions, via rigorous management of the divisional finances, challenging performance and driving profitable organic growth. You’ll develop a true business partnering relationship with key stakeholders and clients and deliver consistent and high-quality reporting to support and influence commercial decisions.

Leading a remote team of segment-based finance professionals you’ll have excellent people management and leadership qualities and be able to foster a collaborate environment with a continuous improvement culture.

This is a unique opportunity where you’ll play a pivotal role within the Sodexo Live! segment, you’ll have true visibility of your impact in a high-performance culture and have plenty of scope to continue your professional development in a dynamic and fast paced team.

You’ll work a hybrid pattern between home and our Southern England based client sites, there may be a need, during the event peak seasons, to support some out of hours / weekend working.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Creation of insightful, commercially focused reporting to aid strategic decision making
  • Accurate, timely and frequent reporting of the financial performance of the contracts
  • Management of the control environment
  • Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for the divisions
  • Lead the monthly review process to optimize divisional financial performance
  • Establishing effective relationships with clients and operational heads of department to maximise influencing ability, attending client meetings as required
  • Demonstration of understanding contract key drivers through improved reporting, cost reduction and control and profit maximisation
  • Motivating and engaging the local finance teams and ensuring they are fully connected to other site-based departments
  • Supporting the advancement of technology solutions across the segment to support efficiency in the finance function
  • Active member of the senior finance team within the segment function
  • Support retention / new bid work as required
  • Support significant project work, including mobilization, acquisition and investment appraisals

A full job description is available in the below attachment

The Ideal Candidate

  • Qualified accounting professional (CIMA, ACCA or ICAEW), inquisitive and motivated with a ‘can do attitude’ and a ‘desire to succeed’
  • Resilient, determined and able to work flexibly and proactively
  • Proven people management and leadership skills
  • Competent at planning and able to manage short and medium-term deadlines and competing priorities
  • Positive, professional and articulate and able to innovate to deliver sound information
  • Possesses very good Excel skills and competent with PowerPoint and Word
  • Experience of analysing information and quickly determining key issues of focus
  • Able to work collaboratively and in a structured way to deliver outcomes
  • Relationship building with colleagues from site level to Contract Leads and with finance teams in the UK and other countries
  • The ability to seek beneficial outcomes for the business and clients, with strong business ethics and role model for the Sodexo values

Package Description

circa £60,000 per annum plus benefits, car allowance and bonus

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

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