Finance Business Partner

MCS Group is delighted to be recruiting on behalf of a major organisation in Northern Ireland for a Finance Business Partner. The role offers a competitive salary and the chance to work with one of Northern Ireland's top employers

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded qualified accountant to join a high-performing finance team, partnering with senior operational leaders to provide financial insight, influence strategic decision-making and drive continuous business improvement across a key operational division.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Group Finance, the Finance Business Partner will provide commercial and financial support to senior stakeholders while contributing to strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partnering with senior operational management to provide financial and commercial insight.
• Leading the budgeting, forecasting and monthly management reporting process for Bus Operations.
• Supporting revenue generation, cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Preparing profitability reporting for bus routes and non-core business activities.
• Providing financial analysis to support operational and commercial decision-making.
• Supporting corporate planning, budgetary control and financial performance monitoring.
• Working collaboratively with operational, commercial and project teams to improve business performance.

The Person

Applicants must demonstrate:

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience of finance business partnering in a commercial/industry role.
• Experience of implementing cost reduction plans and/or improving profitability.
• Qualified accountant with membership of CCAB or equivalent, with 3 years' post-qualification industry/commercial experience.
• Analytical and logical thinking skills.
• Experience of utilising an integrated financial software package.
• Ability to deal with a wide variety of people, both internally and externally, and work effectively as part of a team.
• Experience of working at pace with a variety of stakeholders and with minimal supervision.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to use financial analysis to drive business performance.

Desirable Criteria

• Project Management qualification.
• Previous experience of project management, including planning and delivering programmes within budget and timescales.

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to join a respected public sector organisation with a significant impact across Northern Ireland.
• Exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic decision-making.
• A varied and commercially focused finance business partnering role.
• 12-month fixed-term contract with an established finance function.
• 37 days annual leave, hybrid working and excellent pension and benefits

If you're a qualified accountant looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Sam Boles, Senior Recruitment Consultant, on 02890 490909

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation. If you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate your request.

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit www.mcsgroup.jobs to view a wide selection of our current opportunities.