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Here at Optum UK, we are excited to share that we have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and collaborative Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic FP&A team. As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to support cost management, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis. You’ll play a key role in ensuring financial goals are met and resources are allocated effectively.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment and is passionate about using financial insight to drive business performance.
This Finance Business Partner role is hybrid working. Our finance team meet weekly in our Leeds (LS19 6BA) office for collaborative meetings.

OTHER USEFUL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE INCLUDE:

• Proven excellent analytical and mathematical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and provide meaningful insights in a clear format
• Proven solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders across different functions
• Demonstrated a high level of expertise in Excel, and be capable of organising and interpreting large datasets, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Ability to be a confident self-starter, comfortable working remotely as well as in person
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, matrixed, multi-currency, multi-entity environment
• Experience with financial close / month end including a working knowledge of accounting concepts such as accrual accounting and double entry
• Experience in technology, software, or healthcare sectors is advantageous but not essential

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in supporting the business to achieve its financial and operational targets. You will build relationships with stakeholders to understand their operational issues and goals, to enable you to prepare robust and well understood budgets and forecasts as part of the wider Group planning exercises.
Commercially focused, you’ll work with colleagues in the controllership team to support an accurate and timely financial close as part of the month-end cycle, and use the knowledge gained and your relationships with stakeholders to support the preparation of forecasts that help the business plan effectively. This is a hands-on role where your analytical skills and commercial acumen will be highly valued.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supporting the month end cycle by working closely with the controllership team to provide guidance and insight that ultimately result in accurate and timely actual costs
• Promoting good cost management through review of purchase orders or other documentation, ensuring financial implications are understood and communicated
• Assist with reporting aspects, such as the preparation of the combined UK businesses forecasts through consolidation and top level analysis and supporting the preparation of more formal monthly reporting packs in USD
• Using Group wide reporting and forecasting systems and technology to drive efficiency and accuracy