M01 - Senior Finance Business Partner

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About TransUnion

What We’ll Bring:

TransUnion is a global information and insights company which provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people in more than 30 countries. We call this Information for Good®.

In the UK, TransUnion is a leading credit reference agency and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a wide variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

Job Description

What You’ll Bring:

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our growing Finance team. You will be based from our offices in Leeds or London and also working remotely as part of our ‘flex together’ approach.

In this fast-paced role you’ll work with our wider finance business partnering team and your aligned business area to provide Finance Business Partner support. As Senior Finance Business Partner you will act as a key member of the function’s leadership team, proactively delivering constructive challenge and input into strategic and operational decision making.

So whether you’re currently an Finance Business Partner looking for a step up or a Finance Manager/Controller or similar looking for a new challenge this exciting role will offer a host of development opportunities as part of a global team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic and financial planning, budgeting and forecasting for the function. Ensure overall alignment with group plans.
• Support the function in producing accurate revenue (where applicable) and cost forecasting, understanding key drivers of the forecasts and maintain a view of risks and opportunities
• Development and provision of relevant and insightful financial reporting and analysis, to drive improved business performance
• Development and on-going measurement of performance against the performance management framework and KPIs
• Responsible for designing, costing and implementing any sales commission plans or exceptional bonus schemes (as applicable) together with ongoing monitoring and reporting the performance against these plans
• For revenue generating functions, develop the governance structure around contract approvals, provide challenge and support around pricing / market context
• Robust cost management and challenge to drive improved efficiency and “value for money”
• Headcount management and approvals, working closely with the HR business partner
• Early identification of business challenges and mitigation of business and financial risk through the application of robust governance procedures
• Regular liaison and reviews with Financial Control, FP&A, Sales Accounting and other Finance teams
• As a leader within the finance team, provide support, coaching and mentoring for the finance business partners and analysts
• Involvement in wider finance initiatives to constantly evolve
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• Qualified Accountant with either CIMA, ACCA, ACA, ICAEW or equivalent qualification
• Previous Finance Business Partner experience
• Exceptional Interpersonal skills with experience communicating with senior stakeholders
• Highly proficient in prioritising tasks and workloads to meet the needs of stakeholders inside and outside of Finance
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills
  

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Any experience working in a regulated environment would be interesting to see
  

Impact You’ll Make

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

As well as a competitive salary and bonus scheme our benefits package includes 26 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) a generous contributory pension scheme, private health care and a host of other employee lifestyle benefits.

Throughout the pandemic TransUnion has been committed to supporting physical, mental and financial fitness with a series of events and activities, ranging from lunchtime yoga and boxing classes to mindfulness and meditation.

Globally, TransUnion has already given three company days off in 2021 in recognition of the huge effort to go above and beyond that has been seen across the business, and we encourage dedicated ‘away from keyboard’ time to ensure colleagues take a break from their laptops each day.

We have an active forum where colleagues can support charities and community projects they nominate, and network groups such as our diversity forum and Women @ TU that run events regularly.

Remote Interview & Hiring Process

Protecting the health and wellness of our colleagues and candidates considering a career at TransUnion is our highest priority. Our recruitment and onboarding experience for this role is fully virtual for the time being. Candidate’s interviewing will get to know our team over the phone and video, and this role will operate virtually upon hire until we return to the office.

Even though we’re not physically together right now, our goal is to provide you a supportive candidate and on-boarding experience that will immerse you in our culture and set you up for success at TransUnion.

TransUnion Job Title

Manager I, Financial Planning & Analysis