About The Role
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Ipswich
Salary: Competitive
Hours per week: Monday to Friday - 37.5 hours per week
Business Overview
OCS Group is one of the world’s leading international facilities service providers, delivering critical and essential services to support their 20,000 customers. With a turnover of more than £2bn, the company employs more than 130,000 colleagues in 26 countries and has a strong track record of expertly delivering high-quality services across a range of sectors and industries to customers at a local, national, and international level. OCS offers services including cleaning, catering, security, building services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management, and pest control services.
Job Overview
As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting the finance department by providing strategic financial insights and analysis to the business. This is a hybrid-working position, combining working with a vibrant & supportive finance team in the office, visiting clients’ sites, and working from home. Your expertise in finance business partnering and management accounts, along with a desire to make a difference, will be essential in driving informed decision-making and supporting the financial growth of our organization.
Benefits
- Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free fruit in our office
- Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
- Wide range of retail discounts
- Regular social and charity events are held in our offices.
- Get involved in charity events in the local community.
Wellbeing
- Discounted gym membership
- Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
- Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice.
- Access to “CHROMA,” our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events.
- Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders
Career development and recognition
- Immediate access to “Opportunity,” our internal Learning and Development platform
- Required professional membership fees paid for
- Opportunity to win monthly OCS recognition scheme.
- Long service awards
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the production of timely and accurate monthly Management Reports and Accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, including all necessary regional reports for major contracts in the business unit.
- Act as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders by providing financial guidance, analysis, and insights to support business objectives.
- Monitor key performance indicators and variance analysis to provide a clear understanding of the drivers of growth to inform and develop both short-term performance and the strategic direction of the business unit.
- Develop and maintain effective business partnering relationships across different operational teams.
- Collaborate with Operational teams to improve working capital performance, with particular reference to debt and stock management.
- Provide effective financial information to the operations of the business to enable visibility of performance and assist with strategies around efficiencies and enhancing profitability.
- Preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts to manage the divisional results and expectations across the business.
- Use Microsoft Dynamics & Power BI to analyse financial data, create insightful reports, and identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Support in the preparation of financial presentations and reports for senior management and board meetings.
- Compliance with group finance policy and procedure and establishment of additional policy and procedure as required.
Key working relationships:
- Operational Teams, including Contract Managers & Operations Directors
- At times supporting Commercial Finance Director & Managing Director
About You:
- Applicants must have the Right To Work in the UK
- Part Qualified or Newly Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
- Experience of preparing, reviewing, and interpreting Management Accounts
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting
- Experience in the Facilities Management industry would be desirable.
- Commercial acumen, with an ability to interpret numbers and communicate key issues in a concise and clear manner to a range of audiences.
- Possessing a high level of attention to detail, but commercially focused.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex financial information.
- Engaging client-facing capabilities to build and develop relationships.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work with complex financial models.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
- Able to deal with a fast-paced continually evolving role.
- Curious, determined with bags of initiative.
- Analytically minded, able to grasp the big picture but also have strong attention to detail when required.
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