Full job descriptionAxon Moore are delighted to be partnering with an exciting and growing business to recruit a newly created Group Finance Business Partner position.

The position involves working closely with both finance and operational teams, providing valuable financial insight and commercial support across a varied portfolio of projects and contracts.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to take ownership of project performance, challenge financial assumptions and help influence key business decisions.

Key Responsibilities:
*Management Reporting & Analysis: Review monthly contract and divisional performance reports, support month-end reporting, investigate budget and forecast variances, and maintain financial dashboards and KPI reports
*Budgeting & Forecasting: Assist with the preparation of annual budgets and monthly forecasts, consolidating operational information and monitoring forecast accuracy
*Contract Financial Management: Monitor contract performance against budgets and tender assumptions, maintain risk and opportunity registers, manage central contingencies and escalate financial or margin concerns
*Business Partnering: Provide financial support to operational teams and budget holders, attend contract review meetings and help stakeholders understand financial performance
*Commercial Support: Assist with tender evaluations, pricing models, bid submissions, contract reviews

Ideally candidates will:
*Be ACCA/CIMA qualified, or actively studying towards qualification
*A background in construction, nuclear, engineering, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure or another project based industry
*Experience in project finance, contract accounting, management accounting, commercial finance or finance business partnering
*A good understanding of project forecasting, cost control, margin analysis and financial performance reporting
*Experience working with NEC contracts would be highly beneficial
Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on or on . INDFIN