Finance Business Partner - Propylon

at  RWS Group

Job Purpose:
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) will be responsible for leading the divisional management team and for driving the financial performance of the business, ensuring finance involvement in the development of the division’s strategic direction. This will require you to provide insight into the business environment and the wider financial context. You will need to identify opportunities that will have a positive impact on value creation for the division.
You will report into and work closely with the Divisional Finance Director to support plans in key operational and strategic areas. This will involve interpreting and driving finance performance, advising on key business planning, trade-offs, and opportunities, and presenting a dynamic industry, competitors, and economic context
You may also be required to support the divisional FBPs and Junior FBPs, share feedback on team’s performance and provide guidance and expertise as needed.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Newly qualified accountant from a Top 10 accounting firm.
• Professional certified qualification (CAI/ICAEW/CPA/CA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent)
• Strong English language skills
• Expert knowledge in business analysis, analyzing large data sets and information management
• Experience in data modelling, and simplifying complex data into compelling, clear, and actionable insights using Excel and reporting tools
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Strong understanding of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant FBP activities
• Commercial mind-set with an ability to influence senior stakeholders and manage their expectations
• Ability to work in a fast-moving changing environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining high quality of work

Beneficial to have:

• Experience in Tech Business
• Conversant in other languages beside English
• Experience working with Business & Financial Planning systems
• Experience working with MS Dynamics Great Plains

Life at RWS:
At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.
As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.
We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.
Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.
If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.
We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

• Lead divisional strategy

• Develop strategic partnership with Divisional Finance Director as a trusted advisor

• Lead and manage Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) outputs including business plans, project and investment appraisals using divisional data
• Challenge, highlight and investigate areas of opportunity for strategic recommendations
• Understand and translate financial information into tangible targets or actions, assessing financial implications of each action
• Drive the preparation of relevant papers for senior level meetings with stakeholders across the business
• Ensure divisional FBPs adherence to accounting principles, internal controls, and applicable legislative and regulatory requirements
• Act as key finance liaison for the partnering business units, responsible for FBPs’ outputs
• Supervise divisional FBPs across multiple levels
• Establish strong working relationships within the team to ensure satisfaction and talent retention
• Mentor and guide direct reports, sharing expertise and knowledge to support growth and development
• Ensure FBPs maintains Key Performance Indicator (KPI) results within management expectations where necessary e.g., accuracy of financial data or forecast
• Manage divisional reporting & analytics
• Own the development and management of divisional strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts
• Perform variance analysis on financial performance against divisional plan
• Leverage business insights, scenario modelling and analysis to develop financial models and drive commercial decision-making and complex problem-solving
• Experiment with unorthodox approaches and identify emerging themes to drive future value opportunities
• Create visually compelling stories for executive and leadership presentations
• Ensure divisional FBPs compliance and financial control
• Ensure divisional FBPs comply with all relevant accounting standards and internal policies and procedures
• Ensure preparation of accurate and timely financial statements and reports
• Ensure a robust control environment within divisional finance, adhering to internal controls and regulatory requirements
• Support continuous improvement in the Group
• Identify opportunities to improve existing financial processes
• Closely follow-up macro-economic developments and assess impacts toward business
• Focus on increasing analytics capabilities, including new initiatives to analyse data
• Raise feedback for potential opportunities to optimise and standardise methods and processes
• Ensure in-scope business partnering processes are documented and stored on the assigned shared location
• Collaborate with other teams
• Challenge central functions to provide more efficient and cost-effective services to the business
• Collaborate with Master Data team for required data points, best practices and standards and data issues
• Collaborate with Shared Service Centre (SSC) process delivery teams to exchange information, as required, and support process improvement where dependencies may exist