Finance Business Partner – Commercial

Overview

As a Finance Business Partner, you drive commercial decisions by partnering with sales and leadership. You’ll influence revenue growth, profitability, and performance through financial insight and robust analysis. You’ll support strategic growth objectives with compelling business cases and investment appraisals. This role sits at the intersection of finance and commercial teams, shaping the company’s next growth phase in telecoms.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range financial planning
• Partner Sales and Commercial teams on revenue, pipeline, conversion and performance
• Provide commercial and financial insight to the CEO, Board and senior leadership
• Develop financial models, business cases and investment appraisals
• Assess the financial viability of growth initiatives and investment decisions
• Monitor business KPIs and proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Own variance analysis and performance reporting
• Challenge senior stakeholders and promote financial accountability
• Improve financial reporting, processes and controls
• Translate complex financial information into clear commercial recommendations

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualified accountant
• Strong Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance experience
• Demonstrable experience partnering Sales, Commercial and/or Operational functions
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling capability
• Strong business-case and investment-appraisal experience
• Comfortable influencing senior executives and challenging business decisions
• Experience within a fast-growth or changing organisation
• Advanced Excel capability
• Power BI experience advantageous
• Telecoms, fibre, infrastructure or connectivity experience advantageous

• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Strong communication
• Commercial mindset
• Advanced Excel
• Power BI
• Financial modelling

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