Davies Consulting is currently seeking a Finance Business Partner to support the business with financial planning and analytics, ensuring better educated business decisions. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys exploring the latest data analysis techniques, someone who wants to get involved in commercial business development support and is looking for a challenge.


The role will provide you with commercial exposure to all functions. You will play a key role in business partnering with consulting teams to produce valuable insights and to support business recommendations, taking ownership of the financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities
*Own the Consulting capabilities annual budget, supporting the Partner & Director submissions. Submitting final numbers into the Davies Group finance deliverables.
*Analyse trends and key drivers in business, suggesting solutions to mitigate risk and accelerate opportunities.
*Produce short-term and medium-term business forecasts & budgets and performance reports supported by insightful commentary on variances.
*Produce valuable MI to businesses, including SLT and board reporting.
*Produce capability performance reports, including margin and pricing analysis, supporting new bids and M&A activities where appropriate.
*Perform detailed revenue and gross margin analysis by understanding and communicating to the Managing Partners any leakage based on the capability utilisation reports and ongoing resourcing demands including cost rate analysis (unbilled allocation analysis, with capability support)
*Liaise and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the organisation.
*Identify process improvements within the FP&A function, including getting best use from current and new finance systems (D365).
*Be an expert and excel, understanding modelling techniques, and how to leverage data tools
*Provide in-depth pipeline analysis to support growth strategies
*Implement and lead analysis return on investment/investment appraisals (capex). Highlighting key drivers & risks to senior management.
*Provide ad hoc support to the business team whenever required.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
*Seasoned FP&A and/or finance business partner Experience
*Qualified – ACCA, ACA, CIMA
*Excellent modelling skills on excel, good with unstructured, high-volume data (financial modelling skills are key)
*Experience of latest data presentation tools.
*Strong commercial acumen and business partnership experience
*Experience working for a multinational company, understanding FX impacts, and working with a distributed workforce.
*Experience with productivity/utilisation analysis.
*Demonstrable senior stakeholder management and business partnering skills
*Self-starter with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation
*Solution finder with the courage to challenge the status quo.
*Organised and capable of managing own time to meet multiple deliverables/deadlines.
*Consulting Services background/experience, desirable
*Experience of Microsoft D365, desirable

Benefits
Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof). Our employee benefits include:
*Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
*25 days holiday (rising with service)
*Well-being centre
*Fostering &fertility friendly employer
*Enhanced maternity and paternity policies
*Pension - matched contribution at 5%
*Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
*Development, training, and professional qualification options (as required)