Finance Business Partner

About this role

• Lead a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance;
• Strongly exhibit clients values, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence;
• Establish new benchmarks for a finance team’s contribution to business success;
• Partner closely with the Managing Director and as an influential member of the Senior Leadership Team to provide decision analysis, advice, and holistic finance support;
• Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities, and help develop high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes;
• Develop financial understanding and acumen and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership;
• Oversee critical commercial activity relating to clients land, water and other assets portfolio;
• Build strong rapport and partnership with a variety of stakeholders including Controllership, Technical, Integrated Planning, Procurement, Commercial/Sales & Marketing, Business Improvement; and the Product Group finance team.

About you

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Engineering, or an equivalent analytically focused field, and ideally a relevant postgraduate qualification;
• CA or CPA designation preferred;
• 10-15+ years of finance experience, including in leadership roles within a multi-national company environment;
• An influential leader able to coach, develop, engage and bring out the best in a team;
• Strong problem solving, strategic, negotiation, presentation and influence capabilities;
• Deep curiosity for understanding detailed business performance, and ability to use that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives;
• A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels;
• Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits and an aptitude for identifying technology-based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement.

What we offer

Why apply through Brunel?

• Finding the next step in your career can be a fulltime job in itself;
• We manage the process for you, from submitting your resume to coordinating interviews to extending offers and assisting with on-boarding;
• Let us get you going so you can get on with the job;

About Brunel

• Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for;
• Over 40 years, we’ve created a global network of interesting clients and talented individuals working together through a vast array of services;
• Join us today.