Finance Business Partner - FP&A

We are Rolls-Royce SMR and we’re doing something that’s never been done before. We’re revolutionising an industry. This is more than just a job; this is a legacy.

Rolls Royce SMR is a bold and ambitious company with a highly skilled workforce that operates at pace to maintain competitive advantage and to succeed on our vision to deliver affordable energy for all.

Role Purpose: The Finance Business Partner – FP&A plays a key role in supporting the business planning cycle, with particular responsibility for managing overheads and resource planning. This role is central to helping the organisation make informed, forward-looking decisions by providing clear financial insight and challenge. A major focus will be on improving and embedding financial processes and reporting while also supporting the transition to a new ERP system ensuring we are set up for the future.

Success in this role depends on building strong relationships across the business—working closely with teams to understand their needs, identify opportunities for cost efficiency, and provide solutions that support better planning and performance. The role suits someone who takes initiative, is curious and solution-focused, and who enjoys working collaboratively in a small, evolving finance team.

Key Responsibilities and Required Experience:

• The Finance Business Partner - FP&A will be part of a small, developing Finance team of 12.
• The role is a key business partner for six of the executive leadership team, and their direct reports, supporting a growing cost base.
• Financial performance reporting, analysis and business partnering to senior business leaders who own departmental budgets.
• Proactively managing financial issues to resolution, ensuring costs are accrued appropriately and that cash is responsibly managed.
• Maintain rolling cost and cash forecasts to track against annual targets and advise the business on how to course correct.
• Formalise these into formal quarterly forecast updates.
• Prepare the annual budget and quarterly forecasts for several business departments and support all aspects of the budget under the direction of the Senior Reporting & Forecasting Manager.
• Load all budgets and forecasts into the relevant IT systems ensuring the P&L and cash flow are accurate and the balance sheet represents the correct accounting treatments.
• Support the process to deliver an approved annual update for the business five year plan.
• Work with the Strategy and Business Development team to align financial forecasts with the long term business model and investment plans.
• Set the business cost rates during the planning cycle and manage, analyse and report on cost rate under/over recoveries, and partner with the business to manage variances.

Mandatory Experience, Training Or/and Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant: CIMA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Strong MS Excel skills.

Beneficial Experience, Training Or/and Qualifications:

• SAP experience would be an advantage.

Why Join Us? You will be joining a forward-thinking organization that values transparency, fairness, and innovation in its reward philosophy. You will play a key role in shaping the way we attract, retain, and motivate our talent.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But there’s no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you. Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch, we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.

Pay And Benefits: We anticipate paying a salary of between £48,000 - £62,500 DOE plus:

• Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5%
• Benefits Allowance – £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package
• Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
• Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days.
• Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care
• Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
• £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases

Company Related: We are Rolls-Royce SMR. Rolls-Royce SMR is a rare employer because it blends the world-class brand of Rolls Royce with an exciting start-up that has a hugely challenging mission. We’re doing work that contributes to the survival of the planet. Because of our mission, there’s a pace and energy that is palpable, and our leaders draw you in with their passion, energy, and determination.

We’re one of a handful of employers who can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation – our people are here because of what makes them great, and our job is to help them make the best contribution of their careers doing work they love.

The start-up mentality coupled with our strengths-approach to people means there are opportunities to grow in ways and jobs you probably would be barred from doing in more traditional companies.

Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years, helping to support the roll out of renewable generation and overcome intermittency issues.

Our Culture: At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture. Find out more about our inclusion pledge.

Rolls-Royce SMR is a place where everyone can grow, so whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and help shape our culture.

Our Application Process: Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:

• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
• Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check