One of the world's largest and most innovative sustainable technology organisations has an urgent requirement for an Interim Finance Business Partner.

This will be an initial 6-month interim contract offering up to £500 p/d inside IR35. Home working initially but will need to travel Hertfordshire.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the CPO in the monthly reporting and cost management of the global procurement budget.
• Produce budget procurement savings targets at an appropriate level of granularity to ensure ownership of the category and sector savings exist at the operational level within the business.
• Own the definition of "procurement savings" and ensure it is applied consistently and effectively across the Group.
• Co-ordinate the collation and consolidation of savings reported to each of the sectors monthly. Track savings against budget targets and forecasts.
• Support and undertake procurement forecasting & modelling to help analyse the impact of scenarios on future savings, cash flow and other key procurement metrics, to inform strategic sourcing decisions.
• Ensure that Sector finance teams can show the level of savings delivered and how the savings have been utilised against budget assumptions.
• Support the CPO and procurement leadership team in the production of the procurement strategic plan.
• Lead appropriate savings performance review meetings with Sector finance and/or procurement teams. Understand and challenge any variance to plan. Identify and report on latest estimate versus plan; risks and opportunities.

Key Requirements:

• Experience of managing a team.
• Extensive experience of working to numerous tight deadlines.
• ACA qualified with first time passes (or equivalent or qualified by experience).
• Experience of consolidations.
• Experience of management reporting and budgeting.
• Sound working knowledge of procurement.
• IT literate with a good knowledge of Excel.
• Experience of driving improvements in processes and reporting.

This is an extremely urgent requirement so if it is of interest please give apply immediately and contact Jamie.mackinlay@1st-executive.com to find out more.