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Finance Business Partner

  1. Permanent - Full time
£Competitive + Company Benefits + Bonus
  1. BSS
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm (flexible working)

Birmingham; Coventry; Leicester; Northampton

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We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the BSS finance team. If you have a strong understanding of accounting principles and practices with a commercial focus, as well as experience in business partnering, budgeting and reporting, then we want to hear from you! 


This role will be hybrid working from home and once a week in the BSS Crosspoint Coventry office, CV2 2TU.


What you’ll do:


To provide support to the BSS Ireland Business (Legal Entity), ensuring the delivery of the long term goals of the business. Whilst ensuring financial cadence around the results and completing an audit for the legal entity.


You will be required to travel to Ireland (once or twice a year) a valid passport will be required. 


Some accountabilities of the role:


  • Ensure strong financial controls and management of the Ireland business

  • Satisfactorily completing the audit in a timely manner

  • Assisting the Finance Manager with the consolidation into the wider BSS Group

  • Completing both Forecasts and Budgets for the Ireland entity 

  • To act as a business partner and support local management

  • Act as BSS Finance representative on various group projects, including IT Systems and a branch relocation / investment

  • Supporting both AP and AR as part of the financial controls

  • Controlling the cash position for the Ireland entity, to ensure good cash control management


Is this you?


  • Qualified or Qualified by experience Accountant

  • Experience of Multi site branch operations business

  • Ability to work across business areas

  • Builders Merchant Experienced (desired)

  • Having been part of a large system implementation project (desired)

  • Experience of contract support (desired)

  • Experience of modern ERPs system (desired)

  • Experience of Contract support, Rebates and Stock accounting (desired)


What's in it for you?


You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

  • Competitive bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses 

You be you, its makes us,us!


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