Finance Business Partner/Analyst

Job Description

We have an excellent contract job opportunity for a Finance Business Partner/Senior Finance business analyst.

Role overview The Finance Business Partner will provide delivery-focused finance and commercial support to the Spend Intelligence project. The purpose of the project is to support procurement decision-making through improved transparency, structure and insight over spend data across client’s OpCos.
Contract - 6 months (high potential to extend further) Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB) Hybrid - 3 days on-site per week Pay - attractive daily rate (inside IR35)
Scope and objectives The Spend Intelligence project aims to establish a consistent, automated and P&L-reconcilable view of spend to support procurement RFP and tender activity, supplier negotiations and value identification.
The contractor will:

• Support the build-out of a robust spend intelligence dataset
• Ensure financial integrity and comparability of data across OpCos
• Translate finance and procurement requirements into actionable insights

Key accountabilities
• Support delivery of the Spend Intelligence workstream under agreed scope, priorities and timelines
• Work with Finance, Procurement and OpCos to gather spend, payables and invoice data in a consistent and increasingly automated manner.
• Ensure spend data is accurate, comparable and reconcilable to finance actuals
• Work closely with the Power BI / Data & Insights team to:
• Translate finance and procurement requirements into reporting logic
• Validate dashboards, visualisations and summary outputs
• Produce clear spend insights and analysis to support:
• Procurement RFPs and tenders
• Supplier negotiations
• Opportunity identification and value cases
• Support Finance and Procurement stakeholders in interpreting outputs for decision-making
• Operate in line with agreed finance, procurement and data governance frameworks

Key relationships
• Business Transform - Finance and Spend Intelligence leads
• Procurement teams
• OpCo Finance teams
• Power BI / Data & Insights teams
• Programme and Transformation stakeholders

Skills, qualifications and experience
• Strong experience in finance business partnering or commercial finance roles
• Experience in spend analysis, cost transparency or procurement-related analytics
• Experience collaborating with BI / PowerBI teams
• Ability to work with complex, imperfect datasets and impose structure
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience working on projects or programmes within large organisations is desirable.

Qualifications
• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) preferred, or equivalent experience
What you need to do now
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