Blair West are supporting Grainger plc to find a Finance Business Partner – Overheads. Grainger is a leading residential property business, focused on long-term rental homes across the UK.
This role sits within the operational finance function and works closely with the Head of Operational Finance, supporting the delivery of high-quality overhead reporting, financial insights and business partnering across the organisation.
The position plays a key role in ensuring overhead performance is effectively monitored and understood, while supporting budget holders in managing costs and identifying efficiencies.
The opportunity:
- Deliver monthly overheads reporting and analysis, providing clear insights into performance against budget and forecast.
- Analyse overhead expenditure across cost centres, identifying and explaining variances and trends.
- Develop and enhance reporting through the use of business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insights to stakeholders.
- Support the preparation and posting of overhead-related accruals and prepayments, alongside associated balance sheet reconciliations.
- Review and monitor travel and business expenditure to ensure compliance with internal policies.
- Support the development and management of the overhead recharge process across the organisation.
- Contribute to reporting for the Operations Board and support the preparation of monthly finance information packs.
- Assist with year-end and half-year reporting processes, including income statement disclosures and information supporting external announcements.
- Partner with budget holders across the organisation to improve understanding of overhead performance and identify opportunities for efficiency.
You’ll be the ideal candidate for this position if you have:
- A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with a minimum of two years’ post-qualified experience.
- Strong management accounting experience, ideally with exposure to overheads or cost analysis.
- A solid technical accounting foundation and a good understanding of financial controls.
- Strong data analysis capabilities, including the ability to manipulate and interpret data from finance systems.
- Experience working with business intelligence tools to support reporting and analysis.
- The ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and effectively communicate financial insights.
- A proactive approach to identifying improvements to processes, systems and reporting.
- Experience working within a fast-paced or evolving environment where priorities may shift.
- Exposure to the residential property or real estate sector would be advantageous but is not essential.
The benefits included with this opportunity:
- To work within a well-established and growing residential property organisation.
- High level of exposure to senior finance stakeholders and operational leadership.
- A role with strong business partnering focus and influence across the organisation.
- Involvement in systems development and process improvement initiatives within finance.
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Blair West is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant.