Finance Business Partner Review

I was responsible for business partnering our personal care brands within UKI, so Sure, Dove Lynx etc. Helping them forecast, stick to budget, transfer prices and invoicing as long as a lot of misc work.

Yes a lot, myself and 2 other were responsible for 145M euros

I am very proficient on Excel and PowerBI, as well as stakeholder management, communication and in general you grow up a lot.

Everybody is very busy, you may get slightly more contact time at the start but overall line manager exposure and interaction can be very limited

The culture was very good, personal circumstances are well understood, you can take doctors appointments in work hours etc. There are some expensed events and people tend to be pretty welcoming.

It was a great year and one of the most important things I've ever done, I have developed and achieved far beyond what I thought I would do. Socially it is tough as in the beginning you only need to be in 2 days a week, so even if people live quite far away they probably won't relocate, it's harder to make friends as nobody wants to stick around after work if they have a 2 hour commute home, and are with their home friends. It is 3 days in the office now so I'm hoping for the sake of future IP's more people relocate and even if out of lack of choice more IPs make friends and hangout after work/on weekends.
In finance at least, you are an analyst, don't expect to be making decisions and doing super important stuff all the time, you create insights and data, put the hours in doing the ground work. You have your moments, in terms of the brands I have made my own decisions many of times and have a lot of ownership but this is one of the only areas.

Yes