Finance Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner plays a critical role in shaping and delivering Insights’ financial and commercial strategy. As a trusted adviser and strategic challenger, you will partner closely with Executive and Senior Leadership teams and Operational functions to drive sustainable, profitable revenue growth, optimise investment decisions, and enhance commercial performance. This role is accountable for ensuring financial insight translates into clear action, driving accountability and measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with Executive members and Senior Leadership Teams to drive strategy alignment and commercially sound decision‑making.
• Act as a trusted commercial advisor, influencing investment, cost optimisation, and growth decisions.
• Develop and monitor revenue and cost KPIs, including functional spend.
• Deliver high‑impact financial insights, translating complex data into clear recommendations.
• Identify risks and opportunities, ensuring timely intervention and accountability.
• Lead development of commercial KPIs and performance frameworks aligned to strategic priorities.
• Drive investment appraisal, scenario modelling, ROI analysis, and post‑investment review.
• Deliver accurate revenue and cost forecasting and support the budget process.
• Champion financial accountability and a performance culture across operational leaders.
• Influence cross‑functional initiatives and transformation programmes, ensuring financial rigour.
• Drive continuous improvement, enhancing efficiency, scalability, reporting, and analytics capabilities.

How will you do this:

• Use deep commercial insight and financial expertise to shape and challenge business decisions.
• Translate financial performance into clear business implications, driving action and accountability.
• Build robust, forward‑looking forecasting and proactively manage opportunities and risks.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders as a strategic partner and critical friend.
• Drive a culture of data‑led decision‑making with timely, actionable insight.
• Simplify complexity, making financial information accessible and decision‑focused.
• Embed financial discipline and commercial thinking across the organisation.

Qualifications:

• A credible and confident leader who can influence and challenge at senior levels.
• Commercially astute, with a strong understanding of how decisions drive financial outcomes.
• Proactive and outcomes‑focused, driving accountability and impact.
• Highly collaborative, building trusted relationships while constructively challenging.
• A strategic thinker, balancing long‑term value and short‑term performance.
• Curious and forward‑thinking, seeking opportunities to enhance performance and create value.
• A strong advocate for change, able to embed transformational initiatives.

Experience and skills:

• Professional accountancy qualification preferred (CIMA, ACCA, ICAS or equivalent).
• Proven track record of strategic financial business partnering with Executive and Senior Teams.
• Strong ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Advanced financial modelling and scenario analysis capability.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience influencing strategic decisions and growth initiatives.
• Experience in strategic planning, transformation, or change initiatives.
• Strong data and analytics capability, including tools such as Power BI.
• Excellent communication skills, able to distil complexity into clear, compelling narratives.
• Organised with the ability to deliver within agreed timeframes.