Senior Finance Business Partner (Projects)

Description The Senior Finance Business Partner role plays a trusted advisory role providing financial expertise and strategic insight on high-value infrastructure projects over the next 12 months. This role partners with senior stakeholders to drive capital investment decisions and ensure alignment with long-term business objectives. The ideal candidate will bring strong financial modelling skills, excellent stakeholder management, and a strong understanding of capital project governance within a complex, fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities: · Act as the lead finance partner for major investment projects, providing strategic financial insight and challenge throughout the project lifecycle. · Develop, review, and advise on business cases for investments, ensuring robust financial evaluation and alignment with business strategy. · Own and deliver high-quality financial models, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis to support decision-making. · Monitor financial performance of investment projects against approved budgets, highlighting risks, variances, and opportunities for value creation. · Collaborate with project managers, commercial teams, procurement, and other functions to ensure financial controls, governance, and reporting are in place and adhered to. · Lead the preparation of investment papers and present recommendations to senior leadership, investment boards, and executive committees. · Provide clear, insightful commentary and analysis on capital spend, ROI, NPV/IRR, and key performance metrics. · Support post-investment reviews to assess benefits realisation, return on investment, and lessons learned. · Champion financial discipline, value for money, and commercial thinking across the project teams. · Ensure quality of data within finance systems including developing controls where necessary. Required Skills: · At least 4 years PQE and relevant working experience · Proven experience in a finance business partnering role, preferably with a focus on large-scale capital or infrastructure projects. · Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical skills. · Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a trusted advisor. · Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to distil complex financial data into clear business insight. · Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking. · Experience in sectors such as infrastructure, utilities, real estate, engineering, construction, or public sector capital programmes. · Familiarity with investment appraisal techniques including IRR, NPV, payback period. · Understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, PMO environment). · Analytical mindset with a focus on detail, accuracy, and actionable insights · Able to provide examples where the status quo has been challenged and the positive impact or outcome on the business in a manufacturing/engineering environment · Able to demonstrate examples of leading on cost reduction initiatives and their success · Willingness to use latest business intelligence tools (e.g. Microsoft Power BI) to interrogate data, problem solve and provide and provide recommendations · Tenacious, reliable and flexible attitude to work #J-18808-Ljbffr