Overview
In this Finance Business Partner role, you’ll partner with regional and operational leaders to translate financial data into actionable insights that boost profitability and performance. You’ll own forecasting, budgeting, and KPI reporting, helping drive strategic decisions and efficiency. The role sits at the intersection of finance, operations and commercial teams, offering visibility to senior stakeholders. You will shape financial planning and provide data-driven challenge to support growth and operational excellence.
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary
- attractive benefits package
- high-visibility role
- career development opportunities
- exposure to senior stakeholders
- prestigious and growing organisation
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted finance partner to operational leaders and translate financial data into actionable insights
- Review trading and performance metrics to identify profitability opportunities
- Monitor forecasts and budgets, and explain variances and drivers
- Support workforce planning and payroll forecasting with robust budget management
- Track expenditures across areas, collaborating to drive efficiencies
- Work with operations to manage cost lines and maintain budgetary control
- Provide analysis and challenge on business cases and assessments
- Investigate anomalies and cost fluctuations to improve forecasting accuracy
- Develop KPI reporting, benchmarking and dashboards to support decisions
- Deliver monthly performance analysis for senior stakeholders and maintain rolling forecasts
- Support annual budgeting with analysis and recommendations
- Collaborate across finance, operations and commercial to improve financial visibility
Key requirements
- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
- Strong financial analysis and business partnering experience
- Experience supporting multi-site operations with multiple income streams
- Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning experience
- Excellent communication skills for non-finance stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities
- Confident in challenging constructively and driving accountability
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities
- Ability to link operational performance with financial outcomes
- Advanced Excel skills and experience using Power BI
- Flexibility to travel occasionally
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing abilities
- Clear communication
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- Budgeting and forecasting
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