Overview
Role:
Finance Business Partner (Maternity cover) Location:
Harwell, Oxford - hybrid Salary range:
£45,000-£50,000 plus benefits Role ID:
2025 - 2667 Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. Role Purpose The Finance Business Partner (maternity cover) will provide financial support and insight to the Policy, Strategy, and Economics Practice, working closely with senior finance management and operational teams to enable effective financial management and support business growth. Key Responsibilities Act as a Business Partner to practice management, providing first-line finance support, insight, and direction. Lead the delivery of P&L and Working Capital objectives, supporting management accounting processes. Review project performance, forecast costs to completion, and conduct variance analysis for key financial metrics. Provide insight, support, and constructive challenge in Project Financial Performance Reviews. Support monthly performance reviews, budgeting, and forecasting processes, consolidating and analysing results. Deliver high-quality financial analysis and respond to management queries. Provide financial support for tenders and bids. Complete Monthly Management Accounts for the Business Unit. Liaise with legal, sales, and central teams, supporting audit processes as required. Assist Business Managers in commercial modelling for large proposals. Support Practice Directors and Business Managers by preparing financial reports and analysis. Key Competencies and Experience CIMA/ACCA qualified or part-qualified (close to completion). Relevant financial and commercial experience. Strong Excel skills. Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance, and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer; we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Next steps Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary depending on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer; please advise the recruitment team via
recruit@ricardo.com
if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. #LI-JT1
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Role:
Finance Business Partner (Maternity cover) Location:
Harwell, Oxford - hybrid Salary range:
£45,000-£50,000 plus benefits Role ID:
2025 - 2667 Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. Role Purpose The Finance Business Partner (maternity cover) will provide financial support and insight to the Policy, Strategy, and Economics Practice, working closely with senior finance management and operational teams to enable effective financial management and support business growth. Key Responsibilities Act as a Business Partner to practice management, providing first-line finance support, insight, and direction. Lead the delivery of P&L and Working Capital objectives, supporting management accounting processes. Review project performance, forecast costs to completion, and conduct variance analysis for key financial metrics. Provide insight, support, and constructive challenge in Project Financial Performance Reviews. Support monthly performance reviews, budgeting, and forecasting processes, consolidating and analysing results. Deliver high-quality financial analysis and respond to management queries. Provide financial support for tenders and bids. Complete Monthly Management Accounts for the Business Unit. Liaise with legal, sales, and central teams, supporting audit processes as required. Assist Business Managers in commercial modelling for large proposals. Support Practice Directors and Business Managers by preparing financial reports and analysis. Key Competencies and Experience CIMA/ACCA qualified or part-qualified (close to completion). Relevant financial and commercial experience. Strong Excel skills. Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance, and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer; we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Next steps Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary depending on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer; please advise the recruitment team via
recruit@ricardo.com
if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. #LI-JT1
#J-18808-Ljbffr
