Finance Business Partner

A great opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic Finance Business Partner to join a dynamic regional company recognised for developing and training its staff to succeed in their roles. Based in Portsmouth, you will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £40,000 per annum and excellent benefits.

Mountjoy is an expanding construction and maintenance company specialising in providing professional and high-quality construction, refurbishment, building maintenance and facilities management services across the south of England.

With a focus on delivering exceptional service to our clients and customers, this position is well suited to an individual that is looking to advance their career and gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace.

Our Company values

We take pride in everything we do - Which means we expect all our employees to:

Present a professional appearance at all times
Keep your work area safe, tidy and well organised
Deliver a high standard of work at all times

We have Integrity, built-in

Our Company Benefits:

31 days annual leave rising to 36 days with length of service (including bank holidays)
We offer a flexible scheme to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave per year.
Company sick pay after probation
Life Insurance
Octopus Electric Dreams Car Scheme to enable staff to drive a new electric car - paid for through salary sacrifice.  
Cycle to Work Scheme
Discounted Gym Membership
Employee recognition scheme
Length of Service Rewards
Childcare voucher scheme
Defined contribution Pension Scheme of 8% (3% Employer and 5% Employee)
Our Employee Assistance Programme to support all staff
Refer a Friend scheme

About the Finance Business Partner role:

This role will suit a candidate who has recently started their career and is looking for a role in which to broaden their experience and develop their skills in management accounting. With support from colleagues, you will be the key financial partner to several contracts in the business. Working with operational teams to produce monthly management accounts, insightful analysis, detailed financial forecasts and balance sheet reconciliations. We are looking for a candidate who will get into the detail who can pick out and communicate the key issues.

The successful candidate would be recruited on an apprenticeship contract initially with the intent to convert to a permanent employment contract upon completion.

The role will be on a full-time basis and will include release time towards completing your CIMA qualification
The preferred route to CIMA accreditation would be through an approved provider alongside an apprenticeship to allow funding through the apprentice levy

The key activities you will undertake in this role will be:

Monthly management accounts
Data analysis and reporting
Financial analysis
Interrogation of data and issue resolution
Short term forecasting
Calculating labour recovery rates
Variance analysis
Balance sheet reconciliations

Key responsibilities as our Finance Business Partner will include:

Being the key finance contact for various contracts within the business
Ensuring accurate and timely reporting
Partnering the business, to support with a wide variety of finance queries, requests and activities
Clearly interpreting and explaining financial results

What we are looking for in our Finance Business Partner:

Previous employment in either construction, maintenance, manufacturing or similar industry is preferrable
Management accounting background
Understanding of labour recovery models
AAT or equivalent
CIMA Part Qual

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Finance Business Partner then please click “apply” now – We’d love to hear from you!

Mountjoy is an Equal Opportunities employer and a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. We are also a member of the Hampshire Construction Training Association