Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this Finance Business Partner role you’ll support a fast-paced, customer-facing channel within a large consumer-focused organisation. You will partner with senior operational leaders to provide financial insight, challenge, and analysis that informs strategic decisions and drives commercial performance. You’ll work across digital, technology, marketing, and customer teams to translate financial data into actionable guidance. The role offers meaningful impact through investment appraisal, budgeting, and performance optimisation, with a clear focus on ROI and growth.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering: provide financial guidance and constructive challenge to senior leaders to support key decisions; build relationships with operational teams to embed financial thinking in planning
• Commercial Performance & Analysis: monitor KPIs, identify trends, risks, opportunities, and recommend improvements to profitability and efficiency
• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting: lead budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reviews; understand cost drivers and optimise spend
• Investment Appraisal & Strategic Projects: perform financial modelling, scenario planning, business case development, and post-implementation reviews
• Digital & Customer Performance: analyse how initiatives affect customer engagement, conversion, and revenue; support channel optimisation and customer experience investments
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: align with wider finance and business teams to mitigate risks and communicate opportunities; contribute to improved reporting and decision support

Key requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance experience
• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and investment appraisal
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into practical recommendations
• Experience with customer, digital, ecommerce, marketing, technology, or operational teams advantageous
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

• Influencing stakeholders
• Relationship-building
• Analytical thinking
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Financial modelling
• Investment appraisal

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