Finance Business Partner perm or FTC opportunity
Intertrain is the UK’s largest commercial railway infrastructure training provider and within our Technical Training business, is part of the City and Guilds Group. In this new role, you’ll assist our Technical Training Finance Director in improving the effectiveness and profitability of technical training delivery.
You will support new business developments as well as taking ownership of the revenues and cost base, gaining a thorough understanding of the internal economics and working practices. You will use this knowledge and insight to systemically deliver a material uplift in the quality and timeliness of commercial decision making, cost analysis, financial comprehension, planning, efficiency and governance
We’re flexible as to where you’re based, but you’ll need to be within reasonable commuting distance of Doncaster. This is a permanent role, but we could hire via an interim or fixed term contract until the substantive role is filled.
About the role
Some of your key responsibilities will include sales booking and revenue analysis – building insight into the courses, locations and trainer skills required to optimise commercial business efficiency. You’ll also be supporting the requirements gathering and redevelopment of the commercial booking engine. For example, contributing to the order data capture and invoicing process as well as identifying metrics and KPI’s to be set up as part of a dashboard and suite of reporting outputs
You’ll support the Intertrain MD and Heads of Function to substantiate new business opportunities and measure and report on existing business initiatives. This will involve the identification of metrics that underpin business performance and create forward looking insights. You’ll create the monthly narrative and forward-looking scenarios to support month end data.
The role will also manage a small transactional finance team.
About you
You must be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of profit and loss accounting, and the accounting treatments for financial transactions. You’ll need commercial acumen and you must be a creative problem solver who brings new ideas and finds new ways of overcoming obstacles.
You must also have a proven track record of communicating with and, when necessary, challenging senior leaders. Finally, you must be highly numerate with the ability to produce accurate reporting and presentations on time and free of errors.
Our story and mission
Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, we’re proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.
Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.
At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.
We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.
Our rich experience means we’re uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And, we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, elearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training and consultancy.
Our success is driven by the people we work with. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer an equal opportunity to all our staff and we value diversity within our inclusive culture. We recognise that a diverse workforce is the only way we will achieve our ambitious business goals, so we work hard to be flexible to accommodate everyone.
What we offer
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.
We welcome a discussion about how this role could work flexibly for you. For example work pattern, hours or location.
Next steps and how to apply
If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply button.