Senior Finance Business Partner | Fast Growth Private Equity Backed Healthcare | Manchester

The Company

Harmonic are very pleased to announce we are partnered with one of the UK's most exciting PE-backed giants to recruit a highly strategic Finance Business Partner to join the team based in Manchester.

This company have scaled rapidly in the last 5 years and expect revenues to hit a milestone £1 billion annually in the next 5. Alongside huge organic growth, the business has acquired several businesses during Covid-19 as part of their major growth plans and since the pandemic has continued to scale their operations. This FBP role will sit in one of the key, strategic business units and will be a great platform to a Head of Finance or Finance Director type role in the future.

Despite being of a "corporate" size, this business operate day to day very much as a dynamic, values driven company with Finance sitting at the center of all operations. This role will be office based 2 days per week and will oversee the commercial finance team, Billings, AR, AP and Management Accountants for the business unit.

The Role

The company are looking to hire a Senior Finance Business Partner who will offer key commercial insights for the business division - acting as the lead between finance and the Managing Director and other senior leaders of the group.

This hire will also play a key role in overseeing the Billings and Receivables team and will have an eye on improving the quality of work and processes to maximise financial insights on key contract-led work.

You will:

· Provide monthly performance commentary to the Managing Director.

· Work with the senior leaders to outline strategic options for the business.

· Develop a strong understanding of commercial operations and highlight contractual levers, cost drivers or performance metrics linked to client contract KPIs.

· Establish a good working relationship with front and back-office functions across the divisions.

· Lead the annual budgeting process for the division.

· Provide commentary on month end performance.

· End to end management of the finance team with direct report to the MD of the unit

· Help with finance transformation and process improvement projects.

· Review the businesses variance analysis and highlight discrepancies for investigation.

· Liaise with the senior leaders and central finance to ensure month end reporting is accurate

· Offer a critical evaluation of financial performance and bring to management's attention areas of inefficiency and recommendations for improvements.

To be considered for this role

What we need to see (essential):

· A highly commercial Qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA

· Strong stakeholder relationship management skills with the ability to work in a demanding, fast paced environment

· Prior experience either managing or working in a transactional finance team (understanding how the AR/Billing team operate is key to offering insight on the function and how processes can be improved).

· Prior experience in implementing best practice and implementing change and transformation

What we'd like to see (desirable):

· Experience working in a contract services environment

· Experience in public sector would be beneficial

· Experience in service lead environments like healthcare / construction etc would be desirable

Salary: £75,000 to £85,000 + benefits

Location: Manchester / Hybrid (2 days in the office)

As we receive a high number of calls, please try and reach us via email or LinkedIn to register your interest.