Finance Business Partner (Corporate Costs)

We have an exciting and business critical opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join our Business Planning and Performance division, reporting into the Finance Director Corporate Costs.

This role supports the planning and performance of our c.£200m indirect cost base. You will be integral in supporting the business to provide clear and robust cost reporting and return on investment metrics. You will be responsible for generating executive level insights by applying a financial lens to business decisions and assessing cost opportunities and risks by closely partnering with T&F senior management. The role has a particular focus on staff costs, supporting the HR team to provide clear and robust FTE reporting and employee productivity metrics.

As the Finance Business Partner you will:

• Partner with the business and T&F finance to design, develop and report on indirect cost and ROI metrics
• Support HR and senior management to report on FTE and employee productivity metrics
• Maintain the appropriate review and reporting mechanisms for indirect costs to ensure tight cost control and risk and opportunities are identified and shared with the relevant stakeholders
• Ensure that the business clearly understands their budget headcount and all recruitment is in line with plan
• Work closely with business stakeholders and finance to deliver the annual planning cycle (budget, 3YP, forecasts) with high-quality accurate cost and FTE forecasting
• Support with building business cases for indirect cost projects/ investments, tracking spend and reporting on ROI, in particular HR projects/FTE investments
• Provide insight and analysis to support the business with understanding cost drivers and performance against budget
• Build scenario models to evaluate the impact of headcount changes, cost of living and career pathway adjustments
• Work closely with the Financial Control team to ensure the correct treatment is being followed for the accounting of indirect costs, including the capitalisation of IT staff costs, bonus and holiday provisioning and changes in payroll taxation rules and regulations
• Work closely with the Operations teams to ensure the quality and accuracy of payroll and FTE data
• Lead on the design and development of automated cost and FTE reporting, including PowerBI dashboards and integration with HR Information Systems
• Proactively identify potential areas for cost rationalisation
• Support tender processes to ensure financial impacts are fully understood and evaluated
• Proactively seek opportunities to automate processes and to drive process improvements
• Be the principal point of contact for the HR leadership team for finance queries – building strong networks across the business and in all geographies
• Provide insight, analysis and reporting on other areas of indirect cost as required by the Finance Director – Corporate Costs