Finance Forecasting Business Partner Permanent

Finance Forecasting Business Partner, Permanent based in Leicestershire.

Innovative? Customer Focused? Agile? Open and Engaging? Entrepreneurial? Our key attitudes and way we like to work at Saint-Gobain. If this sounds like you, please read on to find out more about the Finance Forecasting Business Partner role based in East Leake, Leicestershire.

The Forecasting Controller is a true business partnering role; the role purpose is to be a trusted credible partner providing insight for long term financial forecasting alighted to the long term strategy of the Programme Management Office.

This role is working with our well-known brand British Gypsum the leading manufacturer of plaster and plasterboard systems at our head office in East Leake, you will work as part of a team of highly credible experts, right at the heart of the business.

Saint Gobain –Winners of ‘TOP EMPLOYER UK AND GLOBAL’ five years running (2016-2020)

As a Finance Forecasting BP you will be tasked with:

• Creating quality financial modelling & forecasting, giving insight to enable business planning and forecasting
• By understanding the impacts to the business – create scenario and what if financial modelling to provide options to address strategic decisions.
• Embrace new technology to transition to a new digital solution for forecasting and modelling. Be prepared to continually develop, implement and improve the forecasting methods as new technologies are made available.
• Works collaboratively with the PMO to design & implement tools to ensure alignment of project plans to the financial long-term forecast and which provide insight for business decision making.
• Responsible for the facilitation of the quarterly Capex meeting including the preparation of the presentation slides (Attendance – MD, FD, Ops Dir. & senior managers)
• Identifies where there are gaps on capex spend to plan and gives options to close the gaps.
• Deputises for the Planning & Strategy Financial Controller.
• Communicates insight gained from financial information & exploring options with none finance colleagues and explaining / interpreting in business terminology.

First and foremost, we always want to recruit talented people that align well with our values and way of working; we innovate, we collaborate, we’re agile, we act with entrepreneurial spirit, and we’re supportive of and close to our customers. We are specialists in our field, focussing on solutions and exceptional service as a business.

For the Finance Forecasting BP role, you will require the following:

Essential

• Be fully qualified with CIMA or ACCA
• Strong use of Excel date manipulation and interpretation
• Using digital technology
• Strong accounting knowledge and principles
• Good knowledge of accounting rules/legislations
• Excellent organisational skills & attention to detail
• The ability to manage own time and work load
• Wants to develop into a senior Finance Leadership role in the future
• Is comfortable with some ambiguity, being a new role working with a new team (PMO), the role will evolve as the Team evolves.
• Enjoys engaging with others and building strong working relationships.
• Proactively provides solutions, results focussed and demonstrates ownership.
• Shows initiative, thinks ahead and anticipates issues.

What are the benefits?

In addition to a competitive base salary plus an attractive bonus scheme, you will benefit from a significant focus on your own personal development and also have access to:

• A defined contribution pension scheme (company puts in 6% for employee’s 4%)
• Private Medical Insurance for colleague and partner potential to extend to family
• A work mobile and laptop
• 33 days’ holiday, including statutory bank holidays.
• A defined share purchasing scheme (Each month you put away an agreed amount from your ‘pre-tax’ pay and we use it to buy Saint-Gobain shares for you. As an added bonus, for every four shares you buy Saint-Gobain will give you an extra share free of charge).
• As an employee, you are automatically covered by the Saint-Gobain Life Assurance Scheme (4xsalary lump sum as death in service if paying into pension scheme)
• Staff discounts and various other benefits via a colleague platform (discounts, cashbacks, instant discounts or pre-loadable cards with major retailers etc.)

At Saint-Gobain, our purpose is to ‘Make the world a better home’. We are both manufacturers and distributors. Together with and for our customers, we design materials and solutions that have a positive impact on everyone’s life and provide well-being, quality of life and performance, while caring for the planet. Our materials can be found everywhere in our living places and daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications.

Our purpose is focussed on the future and guides our actions to unleash both individual and collective’s efforts to make sure everyone can live in a better world. It calls on us to innovate openly with the goal of better uniting humanity and nature for the common good. Our purpose is also based on strong values that guide us. We carry out our business in compliance with our Principles of Conduct and Action and the humanist values that are permeate our culture – listening, dialog, care, trust and respect for difference, all of which are central to our commitment to act every day to make the world a more beautiful and sustainable place.

If you’re up for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you!

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