Job Description

Murphy is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner Analyst to work with Murphy Plant at the Hemel Hempstead Depot.

Murphy Plant is committed to delivering a plant hire service that is simple, safe, efficient and reliable.

We manage and maintain more than £100 million worth of innovative, best in-class plant, transport and specialist equipment and our work spans multiple sectors. Our inventory includes over 15,000 assets, ranging from small tools to piling rigs, alongside our award-winning vehicle fleet which includes one of the UK’s most comprehensive collection of crawler cranes. Our broad range of equipment also includes specialist assets for ground engineering, pipeline testing, tunnelling, rail and more.

The Finance Business Partner Analyst will provide high-quality financial reporting, analytical and business partnering support to the Plant Finance team and operational stakeholders across Murphy Plant. The role supports the accurate and timely delivery of month-end reporting, performance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, project master data maintenance, financial-control activities and operational finance processes.

Working under the direction of the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner, the Finance Business Partnering Analyst will prepare financial and operational information, investigate performance variances and communicate relevant findings to finance and operational stakeholders.

The role combines core finance and analytical responsibilities with supported exposure to operational and commercial activities. It is designed to develop technical accounting, analytical, systems and stakeholder-engagement capability.

A day in the life of a Murphy Finance Business Partner Analyst

• Support accurate and timely month-end reporting, including journals, accruals, prepayments, reallocations and allocated profit and loss accounts.
• Prepare revenue, salary, overhead and flash reporting with clear supporting analysis for review.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations, investigate exceptions and escalate material or unresolved items.
• Support compliance with accounting policies, financial controls and internal, external and client audit requirements.
• Prepare and validate asset-category reporting and analyse revenue, cost, utilisation, maintenance and operational performance.
• Investigate variances between billing, invoices, project ledgers and management accounts, preparing approved reallocations where required.
• Produce allocated analysis for Product Leads and Supervisors, including HVO, maintenance, cash and working-capital information.
• Support annual budgets, periodic forecasts and quarterly reviews by preparing and maintaining allocated schedules, models and assumptions.
• Collate and validate financial and operational inputs, identifying incomplete, inconsistent or unsupported information.
• Compare actual results with budget and forecast, preparing initial variance analysis and supporting reconciliations.
• Provide clear financial information and factual analysis to operational stakeholders, referring material judgements to the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner.
• Attend allocated performance reviews, explain variances, capture actions and follow up agreed activities.
• Provide task-based cover and additional analytical support during month-end, planning cycles and periods of peak workload.
• Maintain allocated project master data from opening to closure, including authorised changes, cleansing, purchase-order reviews and project closures.
• Complete reconciliations across relevant systems, investigate inconsistencies and escalate unresolved matters.
• Prepare working-capital analysis and support the investigation and resolution of aged debtor, creditor and other outstanding balances.
• Maintain action trackers and liaise with relevant teams to follow up overdue or unusual items.
• Support periodic independent asset counts and reconcile results to the relevant asset records.
• Investigate discrepancies, summarise findings and maintain follow-up actions for review.
• Identify practical opportunities to simplify, standardise or automate recurring reporting, reconciliation and data-management activities.
• Contribute to approved finance improvement projects under the direction of the Plant Senior Finance Business Partner.

Still interested does this sound like you?

• Working towards a professional accounting qualification (eg CIMA, ACA etc) with a strong record of success.
• Strong analytical and planning skills, with solid accounting and control background.
• Proven experience working across multiple areas of the finance function.
• Ability to produce high-quality written communications and presentations for senior management.
• Effective change agent, capable of gaining organisational buy-in and driving transformation initiatives.
• Results-oriented, with a focus on both planning and execution.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving business environment.
• Must be working towards an accountancy Qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Must have strong academic record and experience of working in Finance in a commercial business
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Software particularly Excel.

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on 07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK