Senior Finance Business Partner

Overview

As a Senior Finance Business Partner at Mace, you will lead financial planning and performance for enabling functions, partnering with senior leaders to drive value creation. You’ll provide commercial insight, challenge investments, and align spend with strategic priorities. Your role blends autonomy with cross-functional influence to improve budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. You will act as a catalyst for change, embedding zero-based budgeting and robust financial governance. This is an opportunity to shape financial strategy in a dynamic, PE-backed environment.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible and hybrid working options
• inclusive employer culture

Responsibilities

• Lead finance partnering for designated Enabling Functions and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
• Support strategic decision making through financial analysis, commercial insight and challenge
• Influence investment decisions, business cases and expenditure proposals with objective recommendations
• Identify risks, opportunities and performance drivers; link expenditure to strategic priorities
• Direct annual budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning for enabling functions
• Implement zero-based budgeting principles and ensure resource allocation aligns with value creation
• Deliver timely management information and performance reporting with root-cause analysis
• Analyze actuals vs budget/forecast; provide actionable recommendations
• Monitor cost drivers, workforce trends and supplier expenditure
• Identify productivity and efficiency opportunities across functions
• Develop robust financial models, scenario analyses and ROI assessments
• Assess financial and cash flow implications of investments and operating model changes
• Present financial recommendations to senior leadership; provide ad-hoc commercial analysis
• Lead process improvements to planning, reporting and control; drive finance transformation
• Leverage technology and data analytics to enhance reporting and decision making
• Establish and monitor KPIs to improve financial visibility and accountability

Key requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Minimum five years post-qualification in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A or related roles
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Experience managing significant indirect cost bases, shared services or corporate functions
• Strong understanding of overheads, cost allocation and recharge models
• Experience implementing zero-based budgeting and cost transformation
• Commercial understanding of P&L, cash generation and working capital
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting and scenario planning
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Experience in a private equity backed or performance-focused environment
• Experience using Oracle and TM1

• Stakeholder management
• Commercial acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Financial modelling
• Forecasting and scenario planning
• Zero-based budgeting

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