The Consultancy Group are currently recruiting for an interim Business Partner to join a well known media business. Your role will assist the Managing Director for Events in developing a series of reports. In addition to preparing monthly forecasts and annual budget, a key part of the role will be business partnering to provide financial insights:

Forecasting and budgeting

• Support Business Heads in preparing budgets and forecasts. Lead the monthly forecast process. Ensure that monthly forecasts and annual budgets are planned, consolidated and delivered in timely manner.
• Lead financial analysis to support strategic planning for TEB businesses.
• Develop forecast models to drive improvements in forecast accuracy, speed and timeliness

Reporting and analysis

• Provide insight into trends in the KPIs and dashboard and analysis
• Own the consolidation, review and delivery of the weekly reports
• Support the business heads to forecast sales
• Undertake Client, Industry and geographical data analysis to help the business
• Provide insightful commentary and supporting analysis for the monthly reporting packs
• Support Heads of Business in preparing the monthly results review deck and commentary
• Set-up and maintain shadow P&Ls as required
• Measure and report on the ROI of initiatives
• Provide ad-hoc analysis to support business
• Provide insight into weekly revenue reporting by identifying and analysing underlying trends and drivers of performance. Proactively highlight trends and insights to senior management for action.
• Help the business to develop improved KPIs
• Develop improved datasets and analysis
• Proactively drive improvements in reporting and insight

Business Partnering

• Track and manage the sales funnel and improve accuracy of sales funnel data in Sales Force
• Monitor overall margins and profitability as part of regular financial reporting and analysis
• Review requests to ensure the budgeted salary/temp costs are consistent with budget and forecast
• Proactively analyse spend to identify opportunities to reduce costs
• Support the Heads of Business and manager with business case development for new initiatives.

To succeed in the role you must have:

• Professional Accounting Qualification (CIMA preferred)
• Experience working in business partnership type role
• Strong organisation skills able to coordinate multiple inputs
• Advanced user in PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience with PeopleSoft or similar ERP and reporting systems
• Experience working with multiple products, currencies and geographic locations
• Fluent English. (Additional languages are a bonus)