Senior Finance Business Partner - Technology & Digital (12 Month FTC) in Birmingham

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience, from e‐bike and electric vehicle servicing to on‐demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you're willing to get stuck in, you'll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast‐paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

We're looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic Finance team. In this high‐impact role, you'll work closely with senior leaders across our Technology & Digital teams to provide insightful financial analysis and strategic guidance that drives performance and supports key decision‐making.

You'll operate as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, translating complex data into clear, actionable insight. With Technology and Digital shaping so much of our future growth, this role is pivotal in defining how Finance partners with these teams to drive clarity, discipline, and value. You'll help shape the frameworks we use to prioritise digital investment, measure delivery against strategic outcomes, and evaluate the success of new products, platforms, and transformation initiatives. A key part of the role will be strengthening cost‐base management across Technology and Digital – ensuring spend is transparent, well‐governed, and aligned to the value it creates. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, brings constructive challenge, and can influence how Finance and Technology work together in a fast‐moving, highly complex environment.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted Senior Finance Business Partner to key senior stakeholders, providing strategic and operational financial support.
• Deliver first‐class business partnering across various functions, building strong relationships and influencing decision‐making at all levels.
• Lead and develop a small team of finance professionals, including prioritising workload, setting aligned objectives, and supporting their ongoing growth and performance.
• Take ownership of controllable cost management across relevant business areas, ensuring accurate month‐end reporting, strong financial governance, and effective cost control.
• Lead the planning and delivery of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with wider business strategies.
• Monitor business performance through regular KPI reviews, providing actionable insights and highlighting areas for improvement.
• Conduct rigorous financial evaluations of trials, tests, and business initiatives, using both financial and non‐financial metrics to deliver clear recommendations.
• Support investment decisions through the preparation of business cases and appraisals and ensure effective tracking of capital and operational expenditure for key strategic initiatives.

About you

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
• Experience in a fast‐paced environment, ideally partnering closely with Technology and/or Digital functions.
• Demonstrated success in a senior commercial finance or business partnering role, with a strong track record of delivering impact and driving performance.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence and credibility to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, results‐oriented mindset with strong resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex and high‐volume data to deliver meaningful insight and support decision‐making.
• Experience in leading and developing high‐performing teams is desirable, with a passion for mentoring others and fostering growth within the team.

Reward & benefits

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• We offer hybrid working with a blend of working in our Support Centre and from home.
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch, Worcestershire.