R&D Business Partner

Overview

In this role you will provide financial oversight across R&D, Product and IT to drive investment decisions and governance. You’ll connect engineering costs to delivery outcomes and deliver product-level profitability insights to leadership. You’ll quantify ROI on AI initiatives and track technology spend to support a large-scale digital transformation. This position sits at the intersection of finance and product, enabling smarter investment choices and performance visibility.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays
• 4% matched pension
• Private Medical Insurance
• EAP available 24/7
• Electric Car Scheme
• Paid study leave + volunteering days

Responsibilities

• Track R&D delivery against roadmap and investment case
• Develop investment case templates for new R&D and infrastructure expenditure
• Conduct post-investment reviews comparing outcomes to approved cases
• Build and maintain product-level P&Ls including revenue, cost and contribution analysis
• Provide visibility into product unit economics to Product and R&D leadership
• Quantify ROI on AI initiatives and develop business cases for AI investments
• Maintain hosting spend and capacity analysis; update infrastructure cost models
• Monitor cost performance against forecasts and establish governance for R&D investment approval
• Build reporting routines and dashboards to give leadership timely spend and performance insights

Key requirements

• 4+ years in FP&A, R&D finance, technology finance, product finance or business partnering in SaaS/tech
• Demonstrated experience partnering with technical or product stakeholders
• Advanced financial modelling including P&L development, cost allocation and scenario analysis
• Ability to work with engineering, product and infrastructure data and challenge technical assumptions
• Knowledge of AI and technology economics and ability to translate into investment frameworks
• Attention to detail in financial analysis and reporting
• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• collaborative mindset
• detail-oriented problem-solver
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Looker

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