📌 Purpose of the job

As a Finance Business Partner at Alma, you will play a crucial role in enhancing financial and operational decision-making across the company. You will be responsible for owning the budgeting and forecasting processes for specific departments, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. You will also be in charge of providing accurate and actionable insights through detailed financial and business analysis to inform decisions and drive the company's growth trajectory.

In this role, you will be a trusted advisor to business partners, transforming complex data into simple, comprehensible insights. You will collaborate closely with various departments to support strategic initiatives, influence decision-making, and solve challenging problems.

🎯 Main missions

• Business Partnering: you will collaborate with business partners to provide financial guidance and support. You will develop relevant, data-driven opinions and partner with decision-makers, helping to shape strategic direction and operational plans.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: you will lead the comprehensive budgeting and forecasting process for several departments. You will ensure budgets are aligned with strategic goals and provide accurate and timely financial forecasts that inform decision-making across the organization.
• Financial Reporting: you will define, prepare and deliver detailed financial reports, including variance analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), and leading performance metrics, to help understand the “so-what” behind the numbers and support strategic decisions.
• Strategic Analysis: you will conduct in-depth analysis and modelling to support strategic business decisions (e.g. measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses). You will simplify complex financial information to provide clear, actionable insights that help drive business performance, and you will use data-driven insights to anticipate and address potential challenges.
• Process Improvement: you will recommend and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial planning and analysis activities. You will continuously seek ways to streamline processes and improve reporting accuracy and timeliness.
• Finance Data expert: you will act as the main point of contact for the Data team within the Finance department, serving as an SQL expert for the team, while other Finance Business Partners (FBPs) are already quite proficient and self-sufficient.

💡 About you

• Analytical Skills: you enjoy analyzing complex financial and business data, identifying trends, and providing actionable insights. You can dissect financial statements, budgets, and forecasts to support decision-making processes. You are zero defect and maintain precision in financial analysis and reporting, avoiding errors and ensuring the accuracy of financial data.
• Problem-solving: you are good at identifying problems, developing hypotheses, and implementing solutions. You can translate data into relevant insights and make recommendations to address business challenges.
• Interpersonal Skills: you like building strong relationships with business units and departments, collaborating, and influencing others to drive financial performance and strategic initiatives.
• Project Management: you manage or support multiple projects simultaneously with strong organizational and project management skills. You set objectives, manage timelines, and ensure the successful execution of financial initiatives.
• Technical Proficiency: You are proficient in Google Sheets/Excel modeling. You are familiar with SQL and interested in enhancing your skills, if you are not already an expert.
• Adaptability: you adapt to changing business environments, new technologies, and evolving financial regulations. You are flexible and open to continuous learning and improvement.
• Prior experience in a fast-growing environment and in a Finance business partnering role is a plus

⚙️ Hiring process

• Visio call with a member of our Talent Acquisition team
• Visio call with Simon (Head of Strategic Finance)
• Written case study
• Case debrief with Simon and Stephanie (VP Finance)
• Team fit (group TBC depending on the timing)