Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner (Mat cover)

Location: Sheffield

Full time, fixed term – 12 months

Salary: up to £65,000

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. 

Role overview:

This role takes responsibility for the reporting of financial information and the key stakeholder relationship for Technology and Product functions, leading on financial reporting and insightful advice and analysis to support business decision making

In addition, you will be providing support on financial aspects of a wide range of initiatives including but not limited to, capex reporting, product roadmap tracking, business planning, data quality, business practice and process improvements and acquisition integrations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Key stakeholder relationship for Technology and Product functions, leading on reporting and insightful advice and analysis to support business decision making
• Monthly P&L and capex reporting
• Support the capex data recording process, work with the technology and product functions to determine appropriate capitalization
• Provide accurate and full supporting documentation for audit purposes, liaising with the external auditors as required
• Monthly business driver/ metric reporting
• Present monthly results to function leads, providing explanations of variances vs. budget and promote insightful discussion on financial performance
• Support stakeholders through the business planning cycle in order to establish operational plans and budget inputs
• Support product roadmap tracking and challenge prioritisation
• Support the tracking of expenses vs budget
• Understand and challenge current business practice, identifying and implementing initiatives to improve processes and deliver efficiencies
• Support Group-level initiatives and ad-hoc projects including integrations associated with recent acquisitions
• Management responsibility for a direct report
• Provide support to the Group Head of Finance and wider Finance Leadership team
• Provide high service levels to the business

What will you need to succeed?

• Ability to think both analytically and strategically – to go beyond the numbers and to think logically about underlying business issues
• Strong commercial awareness combined with robust numerical and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of accounting and financial control particularly capitalized development costs
• Proactive, ability to use initiative, anticipate issues and develop practical solutions in a collaborative manner
• Articulate with good verbal and written communication skills
• Be committed and flexible in your approach to work and able to work under pressure, multi-task and prioritise work while meeting tight deadlines
• Be passionate about providing support to the business; drive and enthusiasm to use reporting to identify and deliver financial or operational improvements
• Advanced Excel skills
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3+ years PQE
• Experience of working with and analysing large data sets
• Experience in a similar role  

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking 
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management. 

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. 

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal