Finance Business Partner - Operations Labour

Evri is the UK's leading dedicated parcel delivery company, which has tripled in size over the last five years, achieving a turnover of £2bn per annum and EBITDA targeted at just under £300m.

EVRi has held onto the accelerated volume growth experienced over the course of the previous two years and managed to grow ahead of the market by capitalising on the market trends that are becoming increasingly important to our stakeholders, such as the growth in e-commerce and the rise in popularity of secondhand (or ‘pre-loved') marketplaces, as well as international delivery.

In July 2024 EVRi was acquired by Apollo, one of the world's leading global asset management firms, in a deal worth £2.7bn. As a fast-growing business with a strong future the move to Apollo Funds demonstrates confidence in the strong momentum of the business and new ownership will supercharge EVRi's position as a parcel delivery powerhouse.

Due to exciting growth we are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner to develop and deliver clear and robust value add reporting and insights to the Operations team and field business partners for Warehouse Labour, which drive performance improving actions and decision making. Model complex problems and business scenarios, and deliver compelling story telling across performance reporting. Build, engage and deliver the Strategic Finance Plan, Budgets and Forecasts for supported area, through quality stakeholder management.

You will be accountable for:

Financial Planning

• Deliver detailed and accurate Operations Financial Plans for Warehouse Labour, Transport labour & operational Management & Admin, which have been stress tested and had full engagement with business owners;
• On an ongoing basis, embed identified risks and opportunities into future forecasts, providing clarity on the financial impact and work with the Operations team and field business partners to mitigation that risk or maximise on the opportunities;
• Own and maintain all planning data inputs and all the assumptions and drivers within the forecasts, budgets and strategic plans.

Performance Management

• Track agreed performance actions and report back to the Operations team on key themes;
• Support the challenge and influence of stakeholders to ensure they make well informed decisions that improve business performance;
• Partnering your designated area with Central Operations, you will work closely with key stakeholders across the business and the field business partners to ensure targeting and cost control are optimised;
• Tell the performance story, with impactful on weekly, periodic and on longer-term performance trends.

Data, Reporting, and Insights

• Reconciliation of key performance layers and conduct variance analysis weekly, periodic, quarterly and full year, to understand what is driving the results;
• Driven by curiosity to identify opportunities and feed those into the organisation as actionable insight driving the forward plan. Linking actuals and planning is critical.
• Liaise with Financial Control on period end actuals reporting to ensure the view is reconciled, so that we can communicate with impact to our stakeholders and ensure actions are taken on under-performing areas;
• Delivers key cyclical performance reporting for your area Operations, including P&L and Capital, and support on providing a consolidated review of performance;
• Seek to simplify weekly and periodic reporting processes, to ensure effort marries value;
• Identify new techniques and methodologies to improve insights, including external benchmarking, working with internal & external relevant stakeholders, and developing own knowledge of advancements in modelling techniques;
• Responding to key trends/issues to perform complex financial modelling and interpretation of the data to provide recommendations to senior management and stakeholders to aid decision making;
• Support the transition to dashboarding and a productionised data and reporting environment, with combined financial and non-financial KPIs information provision;

Financial Governance and Control

• Analytical support on business cases including trial analysis for infrastructure and strategic projects;
• Build business cases with the accountable operations team and field business partners, to support the draw down of investment to secure future value, supporting the Finance Manager – Network and Planning;
• Own relevant appraisal assumptions and ensure agreed business cases flow back into financial planning models;
• Continue to improve the financial control environment to ensure risk is reduced, through clear risk management processes and best practice financial control is in place;

To be successful in this role you will require the following qualifications;

Either Accountancy qualified (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) or near qualification, with plus 4 years of accountancy experience

You will have ideally worked in an insights or a business partnering role. Strong working knowledge of analytical methods, practices and techniques, including hypothesis framework approach to answering questions; You will have evidence of delivering strategic financial plans, budgets and forecasts; You will also;

• have proven ownership of systems and procedures;
• Business casing and financial appraisal;
• Flexible and agile - able to balance multiple competing priorities and tight timescales effectively;
• Adopt a collaborative approach to working and problem solving;
• Process improvement and continuous improvement approach;
• Ability to manage a wide number of stakeholders rather than partnering one key stakeholder, balancing time and impact effectively
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence more senior stakeholders;
• Evidence of performance storytelling and impact in communication.

This is a hybrid role, working remotely for 3 days and in the office in Morley, Leeds 2 days a week.

We also offer excellent benefits such as 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, digital GP, work from abroad policy, a range of retailer discounts from our clients and much more.

At Evri, we know we only grow if our people do too. That's why we're committed to building a truly inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can bring – and be – their whole authentic selves. We're on a journey to better represent the customers we serve around the UK. We're committed to removing barriers and ensure that each person at Evri is valued for who they are, and what they bring to our business.

We are Evri. Where everyone is welcome

We're excited for the future. Let's deliver it together.

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