Finance Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for bridging the gap between finance and the business operations. This role will provide proactive, insightful financial analysis, challenge assumptions, and support strategic decision-making to help business units achieve their financial objectives and contribute to the organisation's overall success. It will be instrumental in fostering a strong financial culture and ensuring performance transparency.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the go-to finance contact and trusted adviser for a set of business unit leaders and their teams.
• Get close to the business — understanding each unit's strategy, day-to-day challenges, and financial pressure points.
• Sit in on leadership meetings for your business units, bringing a financial lens to discussions and pushing back on commercial decisions when needed.
• Own the budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and longer-range planning cycles for your assigned units, with particular attention to cost management.
• Dig into the numbers through variance, trend, and cost-benefit analysis to surface both risks and opportunities.
• Translate financial data into practical, easy-to-act-on recommendations that help unit leaders improve performance and control costs.
• Work hand-in-hand with the FP&A Manager to keep planning processes joined up, share what you're seeing on the ground, and help sharpen forecasting accuracy over time.
• Help run core performance review activities, from monthly business reviews to senior leadership check-ins and other recurring reporting cycles.
• Build and present financial reports and dashboards that tell a clear story about performance, the drivers behind it, and what's coming next.
• Keep a close eye on spend across your business units — flagging overspend, spotting savings opportunities, and pushing for tighter cost control.

Skills & Experience:

• 5–7+ years' experience in finance roles, including at least 2–3 years spent specifically in a business partnering capacity within a large or complex organisation (essential).
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent), with solid post-qualification experience (essential).
• A track record of working alongside business units — delivering financial insight and helping run performance review processes.
• Hands-on experience across budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost/expense control.
• Confident, polished presentation skills — a must for this role.
• A natural relationship-builder who can influence senior stakeholders and challenge them constructively, at every level of the organisation.