Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this Finance Business Partner role, you’ll deliver financial insight and challenge to drive commercial decision-making within Operations. You’ll partner with stakeholders to improve efficiency, control costs, and support growth, while automating finance processes to free up time for value-added analysis. You’ll work with data to provide actionable insight, build relationships, and influence outcomes across the business. This is a hands-on role with visibility that blends traditional FP&A with continuous improvement and data-led finance.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with Operations stakeholders to understand challenges, priorities and opportunities.
• Provide financial insight, guidance and constructive challenge for informed decision-making.
• Support leaders in delivering against financial and operational targets.
• Analyse financial and operational performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Present results and insights clearly to finance and non-finance audiences.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, planning and performance analysis.
• Analyse large datasets to uncover meaningful trends for the business.
• Develop and maintain dashboards/reports using Power BI and Tableau where appropriate.
• Improve accessibility and understanding of financial information to enable data-led decisions.
• Support month-end close activities and maintain strong financial controls and governance.
• Support SOX compliance and assist with audits.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, improve processes and reduce risk.
• Identify and deliver automation for manual reporting and analysis processes.
• Leverage technology to increase efficiency and reduce non-value-added activities.
• Champion continuous improvement and cross-functional initiatives.

Key requirements

• Part-qualified accountant status (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Significant experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A or Commercial Finance.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate complex data into actionable insight.
• Advanced Excel and experience with large datasets.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities for non-finance audiences.
• Confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders constructively.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how finance supports business performance.
• Experience identifying and delivering process improvements and automation opportunities.

• Communication
• Relationship-building
• Influence and collaboration
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Power Query

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