Finance Business Partner - UK & Ireland

About Everfield

Everfield is a platform with a mission of acquiring, building and operating vertical market and specialist software companies, focused on European businesses. We invest in and provide support and best practices to software companies for them to live up to their full potential by offering a very established approach to promote growth. Everfield is looking to be the leader in European Vertical and specialist software solutions across myriad niche industries that provide mission-critical applications, services, and support to their clients. Everfield seeks to deliver innovation and growth to its acquired companies by providing best practices and operational support to help identify opportunities and install proven methodologies to accelerate customer and market share. Everfield is located throughout Europe, with offices in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Spain.

About The Role

As a Finance Business Partner at Everfield you will be a key part of the Financial Reporting and Analysis team. Working together with your Strategic Business Partner (operational counterpart), HR Business Partner and your regional team, you will hold the businesses units in your region (UK & Ireland) accountable for their performance against a set of defined financial KPIs and operating metrics. Your role will be key to achieving the Everfield strategy of driving profitable top-line growth in the portfolio businesses units. In your role, you will use your perspective as Finance Business Partner for business unit located in your region to help shape, influence and improve the set-up of the financial and operating data sets and systems for the group. This will include supporting the ERP set-up and integrations, implementation and analysis of management reporting, as well as analytics and dashboarding requirements.

What You Will Do

• Preparing and delivering the monthly reporting packs (including management P&L, financial KPIs and key operating metrics) for each business unit in your region.
• Prepare the Quarterly Update Reviews (QURs) packs to be presented and discussed with the Everfield CEO, CFO and COO.
• Plan, align and deliver final annual budgets for each business unit incorporating, long term expectations and strategic initiatives.
• Manage a rolling forecast for each portfolio business for the full financial year incorporating modelled strategic initiatives.
• Interact with M&A team and review modeling assumptions for potential acquisitions.
• Lead, together with the SBP and HRBP, the day-to-day relationships with the businesses units in your region.
• Play an active role in integration activities for some of the newly acquired businesses, including assessing system and data requirements and helping to design reporting solutions, together with the Integration Director and the Head of BI.
• Support in weekly sales pipeline reporting and reviews.
• Manage your own team, including a Regional Financial Controller on day-to-day activities.

What We Are Looking For

• The position requires a self-starting personality that fits into an environment that is characterised by entrepreneurship.
• You have the ability to manage many stakeholders across multiple, distinct different businesses in varying stages of maturity.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ideal candidate has a completed university education, supplemented with a further professional finance qualification (CA/ACA/CIMA).
• At least 5 years’ experience within an international or complex environment and the right drive and ambition to make the difference.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Business Controlling / FP&A / Finance Business Partner role.
• Fluent in English
• Strong communication skills in an international, multi-language setting.
• Able to communicate at all levels of an organisation.
• Able to establish a good rapport.
• Ideally a background working in fast growing Technology and / or SaaS companies
• Able to travel occasionally as required.
• Above all, we are looking for a great colleague; enthusiastic, approachable, honest, committed, result focused and a team player who wants to achieve the best results together.

Above all, we are looking for a great colleague: enthusiastic, approachable, honest, committed, result-focused and a team player who wants to achieve the best results together