Finance Business Partner

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Job description

Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner - Full Time - Salary £52-60k (experience dependent) - Hybrid Working.

At OS, our vision is to be recognised as world-leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact. We use our valuable location data and know-how to help drive the future success of Britain and other nations. We support governments, businesses, and consumers to make important and sustainable decisions that enhance the quality of life for current and future generations.

Join us and you'll have an opportunity to make an impact and to be central to OS's vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

We are searching for a Finance Business Partner to join our Corporate Services team.

Due to the continuing growth and development of our geospatial product offering, you'll join a team of Finance Business Partners to support our Executive Leadership Team with a specific focus on our Product and People teams. You'll support the business to deliver on its financial and efficiency targets by influencing key decisions through data-driven insights and building strong relationships.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Chief Product and People Officers, and their leadership teams, to support them in better understanding their financial performance and impact on the wider business.

• Using a combination of quantitative / qualitative methods and judgement to manage all aspects of financial planning, ensuring forecasts are robust and underpinned by clear performance drivers and assumptions.

• Supporting the development of comprehensive business cases for investment projects and the roadmaps for >50 products as we transition to next-generation analytics-ready data.

• Driving accountability for multi-year financial and operational plans whilst identifying and monitoring emergent risks and opportunities.

• Delivering cost optimisation with the implementation of key performance trackers to demonstrate benefits realisation.

• Being a clear and engaging communicator across all levels of the organisation to provide financial and non-financial insights and influence enhanced decision-making.

What we're looking for you to bring:

• Appropriate accounting qualification (i.e. CIMA, ACA, ACCA), or equivalent experience.

• Experience in finance business partnering and building trusted relationships with senior business executives.

• Communication and presentation skills that add value with senior managers by presenting analysis and performance in a clear and understandable way.

• Ability to influence stakeholders with confidence in challenging the status quo.

• Strong analytical capability to translate complex information into simple explanations for financial / non-financial audiences which drive change and innovation.

• Conceptual skills to work across teams (product, data, & technology) to enable actionable and efficient product roadmaps.

• Inquisitive mindset with a motivation for continuous improvement and working collaboratively within the team and the wider business.

• Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint skills, with PowerBI being desirable.

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done.

• Salary - £52-60k (dependent on experience).

• Performance related bonus up to 10%.

• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12%).

• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays (including 3 days Christmas shutdown), with an extra day's leave for each year worked up to 33 days.

• Free subscription to our award-winning OS Maps app and wider employee discounts.

• Support with continuous improvement (OS are a CIMA Development Quality Partner) with access to online learning platforms/e-books, and coaching / mentoring schemes.

• Life Assurance cover.

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits.

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like:

• Employee Assistance Programme.

• Flexible working with opportunity to consider different working hours or location.

• Annual volunteer day to support the local community and charities.

• OS Explorers Nursery discount.

• Parking at our modern Southampton HQ, or Cycle to Work scheme for active commuting.

Location: OS HQ is based in Southampton, but we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model and empower our teams to make the choice around whether to work from our fantastic office or from home.

Security: OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if further clearance will be required for this role.

OS are accredited as a CIMA Development Quality Partner, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring our finance teams continue to grow and develop here at Ordnance Survey.

Closing Date: 02 June 2024

Interviews are scheduled to take place during June at Ordnance Survey Head Office or via MS Teams if required.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for enthusiastic people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.

We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.