Finance Business Partner

Since launching its first entity in 2005, our client has expanded into a robust investment firm with a growing global footprint. Today, over 400 professionals collaborate across nine offices in Europe and North America, steering investments in Private Equity, Private Debt, and Real Estate.

Anchored by flagship platforms—European Opportunities IV and Growth Investments (Wachstumskapital)—the firm has executed more than 300 transactions, consistently delivering strong investor returns. What truly distinguishes our client is its unwavering commitment to operational excellence and its unmatched capacity to execute highly complex transactions efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities:

• The Finance Business Partner, Operations will be providing timely, relevant and accurate information and insightful analysis to facilitate decision-making of senior management.
• Developing the capability to drive swift data extraction and visualization bringing visibility and transparency of key business metrics.
• Focused on finding meaningful insights to support continued and sustainable profitable growth of the our client business.
• Drive improvement in the conversion cost and site fixed overhead vs budget and historical periods.
• Also, bringing actionable insights, identity focus areas and run simulations for site management to optimize the cost level, in line with forecasted business activity.
• Need monthly tracking and action monitoring, working collaboratively with site teams across different functions, and create visibility with global manufacturing team on the improvement actions.
• Drive digital transformation journey of finance function and be instrumental in increasing utilization of BI tools, especially Power BI.
• To include developing the dashboards and power query models required to achieve efficiency in data extraction and visualization.
• Understand diverse internal and external data source and its architecture.
• Able to integrate various data source for seamless automation of business analysis resulting in optimization of core financial workflows, enhancing efficiencies.
• Able to perform analysis using large complex dataset, enhance the reports to improve performance tracking against targets and trend identification.
• Effective contribution in annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process, such as developing templates for end-to-end budget planning and forecasting process.
• Build and foster strong cross-functional relationships across business constituencies and stakeholders specially group support functions like Supply Chain, Manufacturing Ops and Procurement. Help the company understand how the pieces fit together to drive performance and strengthen the team’s partnership and influencing skills in pursuit of growth.
• Price, Mix and Volume Analysis for Margin Improvements
• Proactive participation in various business improvement/ad hoc projects.
• Manages the overall Financial Reporting and Analysis activities in the production and delivery of all standard reporting (including template and chart updates), ad hoc reporting, presentation materials; and non-pricing / profitability (costing) analysis for the business, in accordance with defined standards.

Requirements:

• At least 8-10 years’ work experience in Finance with at least 6 years’ experience in FP&A
• Experience working in manufacturing environment is a must
• Strong business acumen.
• Strong financial, technical, and quantitative analytical skills
• In-depth knowledge of accounting principles, practices and regulatory issues and their application to a wide variety of areas
• Ability to take ownership of a task or process, and see it through from inception to completion

Preferred Skills

• Proven track record of developing and implementing value-added financial analysis
• Self-awareness and ability to handle tight deadlines and manage complex business challenges
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing and synthesizing complex financial data into meaningful executive summary statements
• Excellent verbal and written skills, analytical thinker / problem solver, interpersonal skills, attention to details
• Advance Excel skill, MS office and data management, Power BI skill is added advantage

Key Relationships with Internal and External Stakeholders

• Operational Leadership
• Site Finance Controllers
• Group Finance Team
• Site GMs and Operation team

Additional Notes

• Sound financial knowledge with Chartered Accountant background