Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Slough, Berkshire

Salary: Highly competitive

If you are the type of person that enjoys building meaningful relationships within a business, influencing decisions and creating value for customers and key stakeholders, then this Finance Business Partner role working with AkzoNobel’s best-known brands, Dulux, Hammerite, Cuprinol and Polycell is for you.

We have transformed the way finance interacts with the business by freeing up our business partners from modelling, reporting and analysis, which has enabled our team to immerse themselves in business operations. Dedicated teams in FP&A, Accounting, and Cash Collection provide partnering and support to ensure we deliver on the business needs.

You will be part of a high-profile team with tremendous responsibility and scope, guiding senior leaders on all financial matters. This will include the following:

· Managing performance by translating global strategy into local targets ensuring these are delivered through the monthly financial planning and review cycle.

· Optimising decisions on Pricing, Capex, Cost, Tenders, and Trading Terms by evaluating the impact, validating assumptions and scenario planning.

· Champion operations by ensuring controls are in place for key areas of risk and decisions are made in compliance with relevant policies and regulations. As well as identifying, overseeing and leading continuous improvement projects.

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified, you will need to be fluent in numbers and business translating analytical insight into a commercial context. You will possess well-rounded finance experience and a proven track record of partnering with senior leaders to influence decisions and challenge the status quo. You thrive in a fast-paced environment shifting focus to the biggest commercial opportunities and threats in the current moment. You can story tell with data and able to explain complex things in a simple, succinct way to business leaders.

Our UK HQ provides a great working environment with regular games of pool, table football and PlayStation on offer to break up the work day. The company also provides various social and physical engagement opportunities; if sport is your thing, on offer are fun runs such as Race to the King, and Tour de France sportifs; if community or charity involvement is your thing, on offer are Outward Bound trust mentoring opportunities and CSR initiatives in Nepal.

At AkzoNobel, we are committed to developing our talent through career mapping and senior mentoring. We believe in winning together, so if you want to use your expertise in a business where people share and use their personal strengths to succeed as a team, please visit our website via the link and apply online.

In the event of a high candidate response to this vacancy, we may close the application period earlier than the date shown.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Referral programme
• Store discount
• Transport links
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Slough, SL2 5DS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Slough, SL2 5DS