Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this role you partner with senior stakeholders to translate financial results into clear guidance for strategic decisions. You build and maintain models for forecasting, budgeting, and investment proposals, and analyze performance data to identify key drivers and risks. You work with business leads to refine forecasts, budgets, and monthly outputs, while driving continuous improvement in Group Business Services processes and strengthening internal controls. This position offers a chance to contribute to a value‑adding finance function within a collaborative, cross‑functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders and provide insight and guidance for decision making
• Translate financial results into actionable commentary on performance, risks, and opportunities
• Build and maintain financial models for forecasting, budgeting, business cases, and scenario analyses
• Analyse trading performance data to identify key drivers, trends, and risks
• Collaborate with business leads on monthly forecasts and communicate risks and opportunities to the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting
• Collaborate on annual budget and preparation of budget presentation to MD
• Load budgets into ERP and complete group deliverables
• Review outputs by the GBS team (management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, month-end close)
• Drive continuous improvement in GBS processes (standardisation, automation, efficiency)
• Partner with GBS to improve service quality, knowledge transfer, and issue prevention
• Promote a strong control mindset while enabling a value‑adding, business‑focused finance function
• Perform ad hoc tasks as required by Senior Manager Financial Reporting or CFO UK&I

Key requirements

• Stakeholder partnership and collaboration
• Clear communication and ability to challenge constructively
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Financial modelling
• Forecasting and budgeting
• Scenario and sensitivity analysis

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