We’re looking for a Director, Finance Business Partner – Liberty Shared Services to join us in Bradford.

What will you be doing?

The Director, Finance Business Partner will be responsible for partnering with the MD of Liberty Shared Services (LSS). In this role you will directly assist in development of LSS into a Service Company as part of the wider Liberty Financial Services group. You will be responsible for ensuring that financial discipline and transparency is bought to the Service Company and assessments on Capital Allocation is rigorously applied. The successful candidate will also form part of the Finance Business Partnering team for LG Central with responsibility for ensuring that the LSS delivers on its short term and longer-term financial objectives. You will be responsible to do the following:

• Provide finance business partnership to the LSS MD and support the MD in realising their short term and longer-term financial objectives
• Challenge the LSS MD to improve the efficiency of the LSS operation and the delivery of their products, both to LG group customers and when expanded to other third-party customers
• Refine product economics analysis to understand product profitability and drive cost optimisation
• Support the LSS MD in ensuring all services are correctly priced and charged to customers, act as financial interface with customers together with the wider leadership team
• Ensure the production of monthly financial information to enable effective financial management of the business/Service Company, including benchmarking with other similar businesses
• Lead the process to set LRP strategy and pro-actively analyse results to redirect where required
• Provide support to the MD Group Control & Central CFO in realising their (financial) objectives including optimisation of LG’s wider Capital Allocation
• Lead E2E planning and control processes for LSS
• Responsible for monthly reporting, forecast accuracy, listing risks & opportunities and impact for LSS
• Work closely together with Financial Systems teams to optimise the planning and control processes from a tooling perspective
• Review business cases from a financial perspective on rationale and perform postmortem analysis
• Drive the planning and control framework into the capital governance process via the Capital Investment Committee (CIC) and Portfolio Investment Board (PIB) where applicable
• Create and foster a proactive approach to smarter, cost-effective support and implementation models that challenge status quo

We tend to look for people with:

• Accounting or controlling qualification is a prerequisite
• Analytically strong and pragmatic with a long-term vision
• Ability to apply sound business practices and work with senior management
• Result driven, output focused team player
• Being able to build bridges and create support for improvements
• Being able to translate budgets in business cases into operational impact assessments
• Knowledge of USGAAP, Accounting principles & SOX guidelines