Job Number: 17181

External Description:

Job title: Finance Business Partner- IT projects

Location/remote: Remote/occasional travel to Cambridge

Contract length: 4 months, likely to be extended

Hours: Part-time, 3 days a week (Full time may be considered)

Pay rate: £500-£600 per day PAYE

Randstad Enterprise, a global provider of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Managed Services Provider (MSP) solutions, is currently offering a highly desirable opportunity for a Finance Business Partner for IT projects for a 4 month contract

 

This attractive position is offered by our client, a renowned global pharmaceutical company who provide innovative solutions and pride themselves on making a real difference

Overview

The role of Finance Business Partner is to work with the various project managers and business stakeholders to provide accurate financial reporting, budget planning, forecasting and cost control on all IT projects.

This role will involve designing the budget management governance, tracking and monitoring the execution of the budget through cost conscious and transparent reporting, and support Finance Director IT to deliver on time and on budget.

Although this role will be responsible for multiple projects, the main focus of the role is the SAP ERP Global Rollout.  

The IT investment programme is supported by the funding agreement and will require focus on the cash flow, programme outflows and management of funding drawdown requirements.

Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:

• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting for capital and Opex spend as appropriate for each IT project
• Establish and apply efficient capitalisation principles for the projects in line with company policies
• Develop accurate and consistent management reporting and information
• Reviewing project actual reports for financial reporting and coding accuracy
• Liaise with the other teams to capture the cost of dedicated resources
• Preparation of monthly accrual and prepayments
• Ensure correct accounting treatment of any amortisation costs
• Maintain monthly cycle of Monthly reporting of individual projects, including spend and variance analysis
• Custodian of the SAP ERP programme budget model: maintain & update changes to the forecast assumptions
• Ensure relevant assumptions are fed into the annual budgeting and performing review cycle
• Perform monthly finance review with IT Business leads & Programme Sponsors
• Act as a reference point in the approval process from budget validation viewpoint
• Manage project cash flows, provide accurate view of cash outgoings and jointly with finance shared services formulate requirements for funding drawdown.
• Maintain cost centre structures, headcount assumptions, employment cost assumptions.
• Prepare and present status and progress reports to executive sponsors, IT Leadership Team and the SAP ERP Programme steering committee.

What you’ll bring:

Qualifications

• University degree and/or Master’s Degree in Business, Accounting or Finance (or similar area)
• Recognised Accountancy Qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) 

 

Experience

• Experience or understanding of the project environment and requirements to project cost controls. Proven track record of similar role.
• Experienced in financial modelling, planning to maintain IT programme cost model and be custodian of the data.
• Relevant experience in managing cross-charge models, cost allocation models or complex costing models
• Understanding of IT asset capitalization, useful life and depreciation
• Strong team player who collaborates to achieve individual, business and IT goals.
• Ability to adapt style to different cultures and audiences
• Ability to work effectively within a complex management matrix structure
• Ability to interact with all levels, influence senior managers and be equally comfortable with senior management in cross-functional efforts
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate financial issues with non-finance professionals
• Strong interpersonal skills - ability to build effective working relationships across the organisation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Details focused and able to work under pressure
• Organised and Proactive

RSR supports applications from a diverse talent pool. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to enable you to participate in the recruitment process, please contact let us know when applying

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Location_formattedLocationLong: Cambridge, South East England GB