Ipsos

Role Overview

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in providing financial support and guidance to specific business units within Ipsos. You will be a key point of contact for financial matters, working closely with non-finance professionals and helping them understand and manage their budgets and projects. For example, you might help a team leader understand the financial implications of a proposed project or guide a project manager in developing a realistic budget. You will also contribute to the overall financial health of the organisation by ensuring accurate financial reporting and analysis.

Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, which consists of three days in our London offices, with the flexibility of working from home for the remainder.

What Will I be doing?

These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day, although as Ipsos is a dynamic organisation , this may vary as different opportunities arise:

• Analysing financial data and providing insights to improve business performance.
• Preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports.
• Leading the production of annual budgets and forecasts.
• Providing financial training and support to non-finance staff.
• Attending meetings and proactively challenging teams on financial matters.
• Ensuring the financial integrity of projects.
• Maintaining up-to-date project forecasts.
• Reviewing and enhancing current day-to-day working practices.
• Providing ad-hoc support to the Service Line Finance Director.

What do I need to bring with me?

These are the areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role.

• This role requires a strong foundation in finance and accounting principles.
• Qualified or part-qualified CIMA/ACCA qualification is preferred but not essential.
• Experience working in a commercial, business-facing role is highly desirable, particularly within the market research or consulting industry.
• Experience working with non-finance professionals and providing financial training and support.

Required Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly and concisely to non-finance audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

Behaviours

• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to challenge others constructively.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.
• Analytical thinking
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Technological literacy
• Empathy and active listening
• Service orientation and customer service

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 1 Disability Confident Committed. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we’re proud to share we’ve received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!