Finance Business Partner - IT

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Tired of being just a number? At City Plumbing, our Finance Business Partners are empowered to make a real difference. Influence senior leaders, drive strategy, and shape the future of our IT department and CAPEX investments. 

Intrigued? Read on to find out how YOU could gain invaluable experience partnering with our Chief Digital & Information Officer, as well as influence our senior management team (right up to CFO & CEO level). 

The Role:

In this Finance Business Partner role, which sits in the FP&A team, you will play a crucial part in helping support the business in delivering one of our most prominent and interesting areas; our Digital agenda. You’ll work closely with the Chief Information and Digital Officer and their team, playing a key part in shaping our digital future, ensuring we create a stronger, efficient, and more profitable business.

Also, as our Finance Business Partner, you'll oversee financial processes and controls for our group's capital expenditure, ensuring we invest wisely in our digital capabilities. Naturally, to do this you’ll be exposed to our CFO and CEO on a regular basis.

So why join us? This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to make a real impact in a fast-paced and evolving business. You'll collaborate with some of our most senior management team across finance and the wider business (CEO, CFO & CTO), using your expertise to drive profitability and support our committed digital agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Chief Information and Digital Officer and his senior team on cost control, commercial contract advice, and capital projects (including investment appraisal).
• Present the key themes facing the business at management meetings.
• Coordinate the agenda and material going into the monthly Investment Decision Forum meetings with the CEO / CFO.
• Ensure the business processes surrounding the completeness and recording of capital spend (IT & non IT) is being adhered to, keeping stakeholders (including the CEO / CFO) informed of project under/over spends.   
• Ownership of the monthly board capex reporting.
• Work closely with other finance teams to deliver annual planning cycles (forecasts, budgets & 5 year plans).
• Manage the development and support of a finance analyst.
• Support the production of monthly management accounts to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Be the financial conscience of the department, providing advice on cost control and improvement initiatives - ensuring that the best value is always pursued in regards to renewals, new development and change initiatives.

This is a hybrid-based role with travel into our head office based in Crick, Northamptonshire, up to two times a week.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our passion and hunger to drive forward real change. You’ll be excited to be involved in something new, and will take great pride in the direction and rate at which our business is set to grow. Please note you don’t need to be an expert in IT to succeed in this role.

Whilst our preference is for someone to be fully qualified in either ACA / ACCA / CIMA, we will also consider more junior applicants who are currently part-qualified and studying with a few exams left to complete

Skills and competencies

• Qualified or nearly Qualified - CIMA / ACCA / ACA
• Previous experience in business partnering is essential. You must be able to demonstrate your influencing and supervision skills.
• Advanced knowledge in Excel or Google Sheets.
• A drive and passion to change the way something has always been done.
• Solid understanding of commercial finance and margin drivers.

Us;

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.