Finance Business Partner – Commercial

Overview

In this Finance Business Partner role, you will partner with Sales and senior leadership to influence commercial decisions and drive revenue growth and profitability. You will translate strategic growth objectives into measurable commercial results through financial insight, challenge, and analysis. You’ll influence the CEO and Board, build robust financial models, and support investment decisions. This is a high-impact, growth-stage telecoms context offering meaningful cross-functional impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range financial planning
• Partner Sales and Commercial teams on revenue, pipeline, conversion and performance
• Provide commercial and financial insight to the CEO, Board and senior leadership
• Develop financial models, business cases and investment appraisals
• Assess the financial viability of growth initiatives and investment decisions
• Monitor business KPIs and proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Own variance analysis and performance reporting
• Challenge senior stakeholders and promote financial accountability
• Improve financial reporting, processes and controls
• Translate complex financial information into clear commercial recommendations

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualified accountant
• Strong Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance experience
• Demonstrable experience partnering Sales, Commercial and/or Operational functions
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling capability
• Strong business-case and investment-appraisal experience
• Comfortable influencing senior executives and challenging business decisions
• Experience within a fast-growth or changing organisation
• Advanced Excel capability
• Power BI experience advantageous
• Telecoms, fibre, infrastructure or connectivity experience advantageous

• influencing senior stakeholders
• commercial mindset
• strong communication
• Advanced Excel
• Financial modelling
• Budgeting and forecasting

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