Senior Finance Business Partner

Arup is looking for an enthusiastic candidate to bring their experience, talent and passion to this varied and exciting role. The Region Senior Finance Business Partner will lead a recently established partnering team with management of up to 2 direct reports. This team will be responsible for providing a professional finance, procurement and commercial support service to the Geographical region, the newly formed Portfolios and Arup. You will be a core member of the Finance Community working collaboratively with fellow Business Partners and teams to ensure best practice and deliver expertise in a cross-section of financial activities. Responsibilities/ Accountabilities: Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior colleagues and their teams. Working cross-functionally in a collaborative manner to deliver business goals, projects and priorities. Lead on financial and resource matters; influence decision-making; improve the understanding of business performance. Working closely with the Geography business leaders in developing, delivering, evaluating and operationalizing the overall sub-region strategy. Challenge and influence the Geography leadership in growing their respective market share within the addressable market. Active participation and contribution to Integrated Business Planning cycles that enables Annual Business Planning, working closely with GTM, Portfolio and geography leadership. Lead and consolidate the Annual Business Plan (ABP) and forecasting process within the Geography such that the submissions reflect challenging but realistic forecasts with key assumptions and supplemented with “what if” scenarios and potential risks, opportunities and trade-off’s. Implement forward looking executive reports, insightful analysis, metrics and exception reports with the ability to cross-cut and present by Portfolio and Geography to enable the business to understand profitability and identify areas of improvement in making informed decisions. Sharing key information from the exec reports with finance colleagues. Participate and provide oversight in Bid reviews (where applicable) and supporting the commercial leaders with financial contract advice. Develop action plans on monthly and quarterly results with the Geography Leadership Team where results are not in line with expectation. Monthly re-forecasting and updates on risk and opportunities. Present clear and concise options to the Geography Exec on income, profitability, margin and KPI trends. Coach, manage and development of the Finance Business Partnering team and wider finance teams. Promoting financial awareness across the whole organisation, fostering and promoting a culture of continuous improvement, standardization and simplification. Work in partnership with Finance Business Partners, Finance Operations, Finance Planning & Analytics, Shared Services Centre (SSC), Regional Finance and Global Finance. Ensure compliance and robust controls environment is in place and that approval processes are adhered to. To lead / support the transformation element of our project work in progress and contingency controls across Asia Pacific, working in with other Finance stakeholders to lead and manage the required programme/s. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve. Is this role right for you? Leads a discipline, team or small group/function. Provides tangible leadership for project team and client – goals, progress and direction. Ensures that performance expectations are clear within the team and that performance is being effectively managed. Provides support and development opportunities through assignment of work and stretching tasks, ensuring a culture of feedback in the project. Provides an aspirational role model for more junior people. Creates a climate of trust and openness in the team Establishes and encourages a culture of recognition. Supports/teaches creativity and innovation in teams. Provides a mentoring role to staff in relation to the development of technical expertise. Recognises technical contribution in teams. Builds special skills in Arup by recruiting and developing others. Develops individuals in their techn…