Senior Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner Senior Finance Business Partner - Media - Immediate Start - CDB 

The role:
This role sits within our clients commercial finance team, with end-to-end ownership of our marketing spend. You will take ownership around the forecasting, tracking of spend, supporting your business partners in evaluating performance and shaping where to spend and at what levels to most efficiently drive the businesses strategic goals. The role involves closely partnering with the marketing, trading and strategy teams at all levels up to C-Suite as well as working closely with key finance stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of the marketing budget, implementing and maintaining an accurate and timely spend reporting process, proactively identifying and managing risks & opportunities.
• Ownership of the month end process, including providing insightful commentary to senior leadership to help them understand how the business is performing.
• Business partnering up to C-Suite level, both within the business and finance, building strong relationships and working collaboratively with all stakeholders, particularly key relationships with the marketing, trading and strategy teams.
• Establish and iterate reporting and insight to ensure joint ownership of financial performance with key business stakeholders and adding value to decision making. E.g. how we optimise investment across the company to where it drives the best return.
• Business partnering with the marketing teams to build short term and longer term forecasts ensuring marketing investment plans align closely to our wider business objectives.
• Support the broader revenue finance team, including D2C trading performance, planning and forecasting.
• Build strong relationships with the entire finance team – spanning Commercial Finance, FP&A and Finance Operations at all levels

What you’ll bring:

• You will be a qualified finance professional (Ideally top 4 CA) with at least 2 years of relevant commercial finance experience, ideally with a background of managing marketing cost lines.
• Keen interest in the media and entertainment industry, bringing lots of energy and enthusiasm to thrive in a fast paced start up environment.
• Strong track record of working in a fast paced and challenging environment, managing multiple priorities and delivering high quality outputs within short timeframes.
• Highly competent with Microsoft Excel modelling to manage budget, forecasts, and prepare insight/analysis. Some experience of working with big data tools (e.g. Tableau) preferred.
• Strong presentation and communication (written and verbal) skills. Experience of presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to take ownership and accountability for self-started initiatives, that help to drive a business to help meet its wider strategic goals.
• An inquisitive nature with a thirst for identifying and improving business performance and internal processes.

If you feel like you fit the description, please get in touch now. Appy Now