Finance Business Partner

Who we are: ALTEN is a global engineering powerhouse for R&D services, boasting over 50,000 engineers across 30 countries. Our engineers deliver complex and highly technical projects to prestigious customers such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Airbus, and Thales , across all industry sectors, services, and telecommunications. With decades of experience collaborating with world-leading Defence primes and equipment manufacturers, we cover the entire product lifecycle and all engineering disciplines. At ALTEN, our focus is on growing both our business and our people. Over the past decade, we've achieved an impressive 40% annual growth. Our ambition is to become the market leader in the UK. To support the rapid expansion, we are looking for an Finance Business Partner to join out team . The position is based in London. This position will strengthen the existing team’s capabilities in understanding key drivers of project financial performance and improving controls over turnover declaration. It will also provide the capacity to begin the transformation of the function into a finance team that provides insightful management information and decision support to operational teams What Will the Role Achieve? Main duties Monthly follow-up of our client’s activities in collaboration with multicultural management, technical direction, sales administration, and financial controlling teams. Monthly production and communication of margins. Provide analysis to stakeholders to facilitate their decision-making. Provide timely and insightful analysis of financial performance, bringing together operational metrics and financials to provide a picture of overall project health. Responsibilities Ensure the correct and effective Project governance is applied. Follow-up and monitoring of the global budget of the portfolio toward the defined targets Data support for semester targets for individual projects. Implement improved controls around turnover declaration on projects, to ensure financials are accurately recorded and reported to senior leadership. Tools Plan and communicate process improvements, including the development and implementation of new tools: SMART, PowerBI, SAP, and Excel. Refresh existing Power BI reporting, considering the changing requirements of the business and multiple competing stakeholders. Training Training of PMs and BMs on the structured project financial closure. Specific skills and Experiences to be Successful Good understanding of how a consulting business operates, and of the financial and operational metrics that can be used to analyze the business. Be comfortable with uncertainty and a high degree of ongoing change, in an environment with imperfect systems and data. Desirable: proven record of scoping, building, and rolling out management information using tools such as Power BI/Tableau. It is expected to have a good understanding of: Month-end cycles. Basic financial concepts such as revenue recognition, WIP, and margins. The make-up of project financials. What we offer: Competitive salary in line with the level of experience. A chance to work on many of the most exciting engineering projects and technologies. Hybrid work can be considered. Private Medical & Travel Insurance. Pension Scheme Cycle-to-work Scheme