Finance Business Partner (FP&A Manager)

Overview

In this role you will partner with business leaders to drive growth and improve financial performance from the Bristol office. You will lead financial planning and analysis, mentor Finance Analysts, and support global stakeholders with insights for strategic decisions. The position focuses on budgeting, forecasting, multi-year planning, profitability analysis, and financial commentary to shape outcomes. You will work closely with product lines and cross-functional teams to enable continuous improvement and value delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement
• Health and wellbeing rewards
• Shares purchase plan with company contribution
• Extra rewards and team events
• Supportive, inclusive culture
• Career growth opportunities

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of financial and business analysis for budgeting, forecasting, multi-year planning, profitability and margin analysis
• Provide timely financial and commercial commentary on month-end results, budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans
• Deliver accurate financial reporting and forecasts with clear insights to improve performance
• Advise business leaders on financial implications of key decisions, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Build strong relationships with Finance and business stakeholders as trusted advisor
• Lead, develop and motivate a small team of Finance Analysts
• Review business cases and financial models for initiatives such as new products, cost-saving opportunities, leases and capex
• Lead annual budgeting and forecasting processes and ensure stakeholder engagement and deadlines
• Support and challenge growth initiatives with data-driven insights and commercial understanding
• Contribute as subject matter expert on Finance projects and broader initiatives

Key requirements

• Strong FP&A, financial planning and business partnering experience
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders in a global or regulated environment
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Oracle and Essbase
• Leadership and people management experience
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities with ability to translate data into insights
• Strategic, commercial mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting or related field with professional accounting qualification (CA/CPA/CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience with ERP/financial systems like Oracle, SAP or Workday; data visualization tools like Tableau (desirable)

• Strong communication
• Influencing and relationship-building
• Organisation and multi-priority management
• Oracle
• Essbase
• SAP

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