Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a critical role in providing financial insights, cost analysis, and strategic support to senior stakeholders. This role will enable teams to deliver against their targets and drive business performance.

• Business Partnering: Collaborate with key stakeholders across departments to provide financial insights and support decision-making.
• Cost Analysis & Control: Monitor, analyse, and challenge cost variances, ensuring alignment with budgets and forecasts across departments and products.
• Revenue Optimization: Work closely with commercial teams to identify opportunities for margin improvement, pricing strategies, and revenue growth.
• Financial Planning & Forecasting: Support the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy and identifying efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities.
• Performance Reporting: Prepare and present financial reports to senior stakeholders, providing meaningful analysis on cost trends, operational efficiencies, and business performance using key financial and non-financial metrics.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with non-finance stakeholders to ensure financial performance is understood.
• Process Improvement: Drive efficiency and cost optimization initiatives across the business.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to accounting policies, controls, and compliance requirements.

You have:

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with at least 2 years post-qualification experience (PQE).
• Proven experience in finance, FP&A, or business partnering roles within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong financial modeling, cost accounting, and data analysis skills.
• Ability to interpret financial and non-financial data and provide strategic insights.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to engage with senior management and non-finance stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Excel (financial modeling, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis) and ERP systems (e.g., Business Central, SAP, Oracle, or similar).
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is advantageous.

• Bonus 
• Life Assurance cover.
• Enhanced company sick pay.
• Single-cover private medical scheme (option to add family members at own cost).
• 33 days paid annual leave.
• Ability to purchase up to 10 additional days of holiday per year.
• Additional paid leave for major life events