Finance Business Unit Partner

Do you love analyzing and crunching numbers? Do you thrive on improving financial effectiveness? Do you enjoy being part of an operational team that works to grow and expand their service and facilities management business? Take the leap and make your mark at Plan Group!

 

We are looking for a high-performing finance professional who can bridge strategy and execution, ensuring operational leaders understand the financial impact of their decisions while helping drive sustainable value creation and business performance.

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Business Partner will act as a trusted advisor to the Business Unit leadership team and will be responsible for the following:

• Own the Business Unit P&L Performance with the Business Unit Leader
  • Own the quality and integrity of the Business Unit's financial and operational data, ensuring leaders make decisions based on accurate, timely, and reliable information.
  • Analyse key financial and commercial metrics including revenues and costs, and profitability, order intake, backlog.
  • Explain performance gaps, recommend corrective actions and monitor execution
  • Lead monthly review with operational team and with the Finance Director

• Support the Business Leader in its strategic decision
  • Support strategic decision-making by assessing risks, opportunities, and financial implications.
  • Evaluate acquisitions, pricing strategies, investments, and new business opportunities.
  • Develop financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support decision-making.
• Lead annual budget process, build rolling forecasts, identify risks and opportunities and improve predictability of results
• Improve cash conversion, and monitor AR, suppliers/subcontractor payment and contract cash profile
• Collaborate with other Finance Business Partners on cross-business initiatives and projects.
• Share best practices and contribute to continuous improvement across the finance organization.
• Drive adoption and effective use of ERP systems within the operational teams.
• Lead, coach, and develop a dedicated cost control team, and oversee project accounting, billing support, and accounts payable processes.
• Ensure high-quality financial support is delivered to the business.

 

Our ideal candidate has:

• A recognized accounting designation (CPA preferred) or degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of 10 years of finance experience within the construction, contracting, or project-based industry.
• Proven experience partnering with operational and senior leadership teams to drive business performance and informed decision-making.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience evaluating pricing, profitability, investments, acquisitions, and business opportunities.
• Demonstrated expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, and performance management.
• Accountability for the accuracy, integrity, and governance of financial and operational data used for reporting and decision-making.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, audit processes, and corporate governance principles.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable business recommendations.
• Proven leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge and support senior leaders while driving accountability.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong and collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Strong ERP systems knowledge and experience leveraging analytics and dashboards to improve visibility and performance.
• Proven success leading, developing, and coaching high-performing teams.