Finance Business Partner
Scope & objectives
As a Finance Business Partner, one of the most important objectives is fostering strong collaborative relationships with the clients and driving mutual success. Your role will involve understanding and addressing customer needs to enhance service delivery and strengthening the partnerships, while demonstrating a high level of emotional intelligence.
Additionally, you will leverage your strong analytical skills to analyse margins and increase sales. Effective communication, both internally and externally, will be key, as you will regularly provide updates on progress, articulate challenges, propose solutions, and simplify complex concepts for easy understanding.
Operationally, you will perform financial analyses and controls and you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end finance process. You will work closely with various internal departments to ensure seamless order processing and cash flow management.
The Finance Business Partner plays a strategic role in helping teams to achieve their goals by providing financial insights and understanding the impact of decisions on the bottom line.
Result areas
- Business partnering with Sales, to foster collaboration and drive mutual success.
- Develop a customer-centric approach to understand and enhance service delivery to strengthen the existing relationships.
- Communicate effectively on progress, challenges, and proposed solutions in comprehensible terms.
- Utilize strong analytical skills to analyse margins, scrutinize costs, ensure accurate invoicing and stimulate sales pipelines.
- Involved in the order to cash process (there is a dedicated team)
- Test and validate processes set up by the BI team.
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors during financial audits and provide necessary documentation and explanations.
Profile
- You have 5 to 10 years of experience as consultant, business controller, business analyst or financial analyst preferable in a commercial and/or pragmatic environment.
- You have a commercial mindset and understands sales processes.
- You have a strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
- You are proficient in using financial systems and software (e.g., ERP systems, Excel).
- You have an eye for detail and are accurate in data entry and financial calculations.
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, which gives you the ability to identify and solve problems independently.
- You have effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- You have good organizational and time management skills and are able to deal with different priorities and meet multiple deadlines.
- Experience with process improvement initiatives.
- You have a strong affinity with tools and technology.
- You are dynamic and like to take initiatives.
- You are a team player with a collaborative mindset.
Offer
Our client offers a challenging and exciting role that will allow you to make your mark. You will get the opportunity to join an ambitious company that enjoys a solid reputation in its market. The context is one of transformation and growth, which links to many business challenges and opportunities.
On top of the competitive salary package, the company offers a lot of flexibility in terms of hybrid work (up to three days of home office if desired) and concrete growth opportunities.
