Financial Business Partner

Overview

As a Finance Business Partner, you translate financial data into commercial insight to guide leaders and cost owners. You’ll drive performance, support decision-making, and push actions for improvement, leveraging automation and offshore support for routine tasks. You’ll work with cross-functional stakeholders to explain drivers and ensure disciplined processes while enabling strategic initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• family-friendly leave policies
• inclusive culture
• work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Forecasting and planning: maintain driver-based forecasts and propose actions (pricing, capacity, cost, delivery)
• Performance analysis: interpret results, focus on trends and leading indicators
• Commercial support: assist with fee proposals, contract/margin assessments, and post-deal tracking; identify risks
• Working capital and controls: oversee WIP/debt hygiene via exception reporting and interventions
• Process improvement: identify tasks suitable for automation and define standard packs and data definitions
• Communication: deliver value messages to stakeholders
• Coaching: mentor Assistant FBPs and analysts to grow commercial awareness

Key requirements

• Finance Business Partnering experience required
• Qualified or part-qualified accountant or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical skills (Excel/modelling) and ability to use dashboards/BI to generate insight quickly
• Good business partnering behaviours: curiosity, constructive challenge, influencing without authority
• Comfort with AI-enabled ways of working: drafting, summarising, validation of outputs

• curiosity
• constructive challenge
• influence without authority
• Excel modelling
• dashboard/BI tools
• driver-based forecasting

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