A collaborative and commercial Finance Business Partner

Working with the right information can make your business survive or thrive. You need a great commercial toolkit to able to support those fast-paced decisions. I take a forward-looking and commercial view to raise business standards in key decision areas. I can undertake a full financial review of different areas of the business to determine where financial savings can be made.

Ensuring the medium to long term brand plans are built on reliable principles and understanding how they will impact your business is imperative. Using data from all sources, not just your P&L, is crucial to gain a holistic viewpoint. I can support leadership teams to add high-quality financial rigor in the development of financially robust three year brand plans.

Your finance team should collaborate with all parts of your business and become the back- bone of your success. Sometimes the relationships between your stakeholders require an extra helping hand. I can help you make the numbers work harder while building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

If you need someone that acts with integrity and can work collaboratively cross-functionally with excellent attention to detail - I'm the next hire for you.

Producing reports is one thing, extracting useful trends and data that you can translate into meaningful actions is another. Your business creates data every second it's doors are open. Sometimes that can be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which equates to a large amount of complex information. Understanding the useful data can help strengthen your decision-making with the right reporting. I can help decipher what's missing and what the data is telling you.

Working with copious amounts of data can be daunting. Knowing how to manipulate it to tell the full story is another is imperative to your business. I can take your extensive amounts of complex data and turn this into automated reporting which can be easily controlled and manipulated by the end user. If you need your reporting setting up from scratch or even just refining, let me help.

To adapt your options to suit your business requires knowledge of what levers you can pull. I have proven experience with taking commercial insight to create business options so you can make informed decisions. I can provide numerous financial models to shape and change the landscape of numerous businesses for the better. If you need dynamic reporting that can flex as your business changes, let me do the hard work for you.

Budgeting doesn't have to be long and laborious. Using the right levers you can ensure you have a sensible figure to work towards, which can be as refined as you need. Ensuring you include and collaborate with the right stakeholders who can be held to account if the numbers miss their target can help ensure your business stays on track. Working with you and your parameters, I can ensure budget variances are minimal and explainable.

A great reactive forecast can free up essential money for your business, which could be more profitably spent elsewhere. Collaborating with knowledgeable colleagues and informative financial reporting can allow you to make the right decisions to flex departmental budgets accordingly. If your forecasting isn't up to scratch, let me help make sure it is.

At the heart of any successful business is great management accounting. Get the basics right with the right reports and your strategic leaders can see a true picture of business performance. From streamlining month end processes, minimising journal entries or producing informative reports that don't take days to construct can all help improve your business success. I have proven experience of inheriting no reporting to fully producing reports that are imperative to your business.

Do you need a project accountant who will help the project stay on track and inform you when it hits certain milestones? Are you unsure how to automate reports that are crucial to your business but taking up too much of your time? 

Please get in touch via the contact page to start the conversation!