Business Partnering & Financial Ownership
● Act as the primary Finance Business Partner for your assigned BLAST ecosystems, building strong relationships with ecosystem Leads, Event Delivery teams and budget owners.
● Take end-to-end financial ownership of your ecosystems, understanding both their commercial model and underlying cost base.
● Provide clear financial insight, constructive challenge and recommendations to support operational and strategic decision-making.
● Identify financial risks, opportunities and efficiencies, translating financial information into clear actions for non-finance stakeholders.
● Lead budgeting and forecasting for your assigned ecosystems, working with cost owners and senior stakeholders to build robust financial plans.
● Own the accuracy and integrity of ecosystem WIPs and rolling forecasts, partnering with operational cost owners to ensure underlying estimates and commitments remain current., ensuring changes in scope, commitments, risks and opportunities are reflected promptly.
● Analyse performance against budget and previous forecasts, clearly explaining key movements and challenging assumptions where appropriate.
● Support wider company planning and reforecasting exercises.
● Maintain financial oversight throughout the lifecycle of BLAST events and projects, from planning through delivery and final close.
● Work with Event Delivery and Production teams to ensure committed and anticipated costs are accurately captured.
● Lead post-event financial reconciliation, ensuring actual costs are correctly captured, investigated and allocated.
● Drive timely event close, resolving outstanding purchase orders, invoices, accruals and other financial items.
● Provide clear visibility of final event performance and material variances against budget and forecast.
Procurement & Financial Control
● Play a key role in BLAST’s procure-to-pay process, ensuring expenditure is appropriately budgeted, approved and recorded.
● Review and approve purchasing requests for your ecosystems in line with agreed approval frameworks.
● Partner with budget owners to ensure purchase orders are raised accurately and on time.
● Work closely with Accounts Payable, Financial Control and operational teams to resolve invoice, PO and coding issues.
● Help maintain a clear connection between approved budgets, purchase commitments, accounting actuals and final payments.
Systems & Process Improvement
● Help improve the systems and processes supporting budgeting, forecasting, procurement, accounting and financial reconciliation.
● Identify opportunities to simplify manual processes, improve data quality and reduce duplication across Finance and operational teams.
● Support the implementation and adoption of new Finance and ERP technology.
● Help develop scalable processes, reporting and controls as BLAST continues to grow.