Job description
Connect to your Industry
We are constantly striving to improve the capabilities and service offerings in the Finance function. Our dynamic team of Business Partners support key stakeholders within the Service Line teams facilitating effective financial and decision support. We provide the opportunity for individuals to immerse themselves in the business, develop rapport and help deliver solutions and make an impact as a subject matter expert.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
You will be working closely with practitioners and partners in our Consulting business, you will gain a high level of understanding of opportunities and challenges in the business, to provide financial advice and enable better decision making. You will need to build strong relationships with all stakeholders based on trust and impact.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Partnering with the business to understand financial challenges. Providing practical advice and solutions, you will operate as a catalyst for informed decision making and improving financial performance. This will be across Consulting’s industry groups, its central functions and Strategic Investments.
- Maintain, manage and evolve critical weekly forecasting and the models which underpin it.
- Understanding performance, providing insight and independent advice to business leaders. Responsibility for financial planning and forecasting for Consulting Direct Costs.
- Develop trust and build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders, including the Consulting COO
- Creation of analysis to help support the business in strategic decision making and understanding performance
- Driving strategic initiatives from conception through to implementation and realisation of benefits
- Owning key processes and standards across Business Finance to drive ongoing improvement and consistent best practice
- Work closely with the Financial Control team and gain an in-depth understanding of key controllership metrics
Connect to your skills and professional experience
“You’ll have a natural ability to connect and influence senior stakeholders, aiding decision making across the Consulting Service line”
Core skills required include:
- Experience in a business partnering role is preferrable
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the key factors which influence business performance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; developing strong relationships all levels of staff and partners with ability to challenge and influence where required
- Strong technical, problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to drive change and experience of leading initiatives from concept to implementation
- Energy and motivation; an enthusiastic and dedicated team player
- Excellent communication skills – experience of dealing with senior stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with ability to work on own initiative, and under pressure to meet deadlines
- Good IT knowledge and skills in particular modelling and presentations (strength in Excel and PowerPoint essential)
- Knowledge of SAP and Anaplan would be advantageous
Connect to your service line - Enabling Functions
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"Deloitte’s a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it’s open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.”
- Lisa, Enabling Functions
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Nationwide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work, based around the concept of “moments that matter”. You’ll be able to work with people to make decisions about how best to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining our Finance community. You’ll spend some of your time working from home like all of your colleagues in Finance, or in a local collaboration space at other times. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to flexible working spaces. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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