Business Partner Finance

Cardiff Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this role, you will be the commercial finance partner for project teams, helping ensure profitable project delivery through insightful budgeting, forecasting, and risk assessment. You will collaborate with project managers, account managers, and senior stakeholders, shaping financial insight across the project lifecycle. The position also offers exposure to monthly management accounting and broader finance activities in a growing services business. This is a hands-on, career-building opportunity to influence project profitability and financial discipline.

Responsibilities

Act as finance partner to project and operational teams, providing financial insight throughout the project lifecycle
Collaborate with Project Managers and Account Managers to understand performance, budgets, forecasts and commercial drivers
Monitor revenue, costs, margins, utilisation and profitability against budget and forecast
Support preparation and review of project budgets and financial forecasts
Identify and communicate financial risks, opportunities and variances, clarifying impact for operations
Provide regular financial analysis and commentary on project performance
Assist with financial decision-making including resource planning, subcontractor costs, project expenditure and margin management
Review project financial performance and challenge assumptions as needed
Assist with project set-up ensuring appropriate financial controls, budgets and reporting structures
Support management of unbilled revenue, accrued costs, WIP and other project accounting items
Assist revenue recognition and ensure consistency with company policies and accounting standards
Support commercial reviews including profitability and contract performance analysis and change requests
Develop relationships with non-finance stakeholders to raise financial awareness
Assist with monthly management accounts preparation and related journals
Support balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis
Prepare ad hoc financial analysis and develop models, reports and dashboards
Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, controls and reporting
Help standardize project reporting and forecasting processes across the business

Key requirements

Part-qualified or newly qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
Experience in commercial finance, management accounting, project accounting or finance business partnering
Strong Excel skills and confidence with large datasets
Good understanding of management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills