Finance Business Partner
(Permanent)

Main Accountabilities and Tasks:

• Create an investment appraisal framework enabling informed decision-making on strategic projects and investments, including defining how CarTrawler will measure return on investments, agree hurdle rates and outline a means by which key risks should be assessed.
• Embed and refine to the investment appraisal framework within the business, including creation of targeted communication plans for key stakeholders and creation of user-friendly support materials to educate and enable a sustained adoption across the business.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key decision makers within the business in reviewing and assessing the return on investment on projects as required, ensuring consistency in approach.
• Develop and implement an in-life cost tracking process to monitor the performance of investments against initial expectations, and communicate outcomes, insights, and recommendations to relevant stakeholders to inform ongoing and future decision-making.
• Lead in the review and refinement of the current R&D cost tracking process within CarTrawler with the goals of
• Identify the “to be state” with a focus on improving efficiency of the process and the accuracy of data and outcomes produced.
• Establishing a process that will service the ROI framework (e.g. identify “fast fail” projects whereby scope creep/changes have eroded original returns)
• Meet reporting requirements from various stakeholders (R&D spend by investment area; by function; by team)
• Own CAPEX reporting, providing relevant stakeholders with insightful reporting (e.g. drivers around fluctuations in R&D Capitalisation rate; understanding capacity levels and operational efficiency) and educating stakeholders on how spend is tracking (vs. Plan and prior year; full year outlook etc). Support the Product & Technology (P&T) function on OPEX as required.
• Support in the delivery of Car Trawlers annual Plan; supporting our P&T and Data Science functions in understanding plan initiatives to aid their resource planning/roadmap delivery; leading the assessment of R&D cost assumptions, challenging where appropriate; forming a view on level of return that is being captured in the Plan relative to investment.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) with minimum of 2+ years PQE; with 1+ years in a similar Finance Business Partnering/Commercial Finance role.
• Excellent financial acumen with ability to analyse complex data and processes, distilling actionable insights that drive value for key stakeholders.
• A self-starter with an innate curiosity for getting under the hood to understand underlying business drivers.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to distil complex data into concise, easy-to understand messages appropriate to the audience.
• Experience in preparing high-impact presentations and influencing the decisions of senior management.
• Abstract thinker: ability to think outside the box, see the bigger picture through consideration of future implications and scenarios and then use these to make recommendations or put forward new commercial opportunities that add real value.
• Strong inter-personal skills and stakeholder management skills, with ability to build effective cross-functional relationships.
• Analytical problem-solver with experience working with ambiguous information, identifying root causes and developing practical solutions.
• Strong attention to detail is critical as this information is used to inform business decisions and influence strategy.
• Team player with a proven track record of working in a highly collaborative environment with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Organization and time management: ability to manage several priorities at once
• Advanced proficiency in MS office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, to support data analysis and reporting.