Commercial Finance Cost Business Partner, Rightmove
18 Month Fixed Term Contract
2 days a week in office
Property Marketplace
Job no longer available
Property Marketplace
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide property professionals & home hunters with tools, expertise, and data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years post qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), with evidence of strong performance and experience in business partnering
- Experience of Business Partnering costs
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting
- Strong Excel skills
- High level of financial and commercial acumen
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, able to foster partnerships and good working relationships with senior stakeholders and build effective networks across Rightmove
- Excellent communication skills as the role requires interaction across all operational functions of the business, both financial and non-financial; and the presentation of financial and non-financial information to senior stakeholders
- Must be able to prioritise and have a flexible approach, responding to the changing nature of Rightmove in a timely manner
- Self-starter who’s able to manage multiple priorities and adhere to deadlines
- Willing to take on a hands on approach to support the team deliverables
- Open and honest team player
What the job involves
- Senior business partner and finance contact for all cost centres
- Responsible for the financial and commercial evaluation of investment decisions in the cost centres and provide them with advice on opportunities to maximise profitable growth and ROI
- Help evolve the Business Partnering processes and governance. Business Partnering is relatively new to Rightmove and the ideal candidate will be able to bring with them experience and ideas on how to improve the current system and make their own mark on how we Business Partner
- Be able to think independently and use data to help guide the teams you are business partnering - challenge decisions, add insight and provide solutions that help the business units to accomplish their revenue targets and strategy
- Production of budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning for and feed into the Group forecasting
- Be a leader and mentor within the Finance team itself, and contribute to the delivery of the overall Finance agenda
- Responsible for the reporting and planning for the business units. Constant review of key drivers and highlighting changes that can expose either opportunities or risks. Continuously seek to improve the way in which information is gathered, presented and interpreted, adapting reporting to cater for changing requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Rightmove connects the largest and most engaged property audience in the UK with the largest inventory of properties. To sustain business growth, Rightmove is constantly adding new features and tools to its website and app to set itself apart and provide home hunters with the best possible experience when it comes to searching properties.
Rightmove's main priority is becoming the place that home hunters turn to first and engage with most during their home-moving journey. As part of this initiative, the company updated its platform in 2020 to include integrated video content and property images alongside floorplans. This increased the average time users spent looking at each property listing by 70%.
Today, Rightmove has grown to become the UK’s largest online property marketplace and is one of the most popular internet destinations for Britons who collectively spent over a million days on its website in 2022. While current market volatility has led to a cooling off in the housing sector, Rightmove is confident in its ability to ride out this choppy period without incurring additional business costs.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 25 days of holiday a year (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible holiday (Buy & Sell scheme)
- Rental deposit loan
- Life assurance (4x basic salary)
- 2 company parties a year
- Private health cover for you and your immediate family
- Cash plan scheme for dental, optical and physio appointments
- Contributory stakeholder pension scheme
- Opportunity to participate in sharesave scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Bike to work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Eye test voucher
- Fruit and endless coffee and tea
Company HQ
Caldecotte, UK
Leadership
Johan Svanstrom
(CEO, not founder)Joined Rightmove as CEO in 2023. Prior to this, they worked at Expedia in multiple roles, including Managing Director and President of the Hotels.com brand.
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