Finance Business Partner in North East

Full Time – Up to 23 Month Fixed Term Contract – Salary £47,840 to £59,800 depending on experience – Location: Pity Me, Durham / Homeworking

About the role

We have an excellent opportunity to become one of our Finance Business Partners who will work within our Asset Management directorate creating a real and active partnership with operations and management. You’ll be providing ‘real‑time’ high‑quality support, analysis, and challenge, along with being a trusted advisor that is seen to ‘add value’ that will assist decision making. You’ll be partnering with the business to provide insightful financial information to enable decision making, identification of new opportunities to unlock value and monitor emerging risks with mitigating actions, along with developing and leading financial and commercial awareness across the business. You’ll support the business in the preparation of business cases ensuring all costs are captured and value of the change is understood. Monitor and report performance of changes and undertake post‑implementation reviews.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret financial information to identify and highlight key financial opportunities and risks, and when there are areas of concern, propose actions to resolve or mitigate, engage across the business, and appropriately escalates.
• Lead the annual budget process for designated areas, work with budget holders to ensure that their budget submissions reflect their strategic plans, and that the information submitted is on time, accurate, and consistent.
• Undertake financial performance reviews, maintain an ongoing forecast and lead month‑end management accounting processes to identify and track risks and opportunities, and updating any changes.
• Build professional and effective relationships across the business; own stakeholder relationships and be the first point of contact for analysis and support.
• Support the Senior FBP in developing and implementing new finance processes and procedures as required by business or regulatory changes.

About you

We’re looking for the successful candidate to have proven experience in a fast‑paced, complex financial organisation delivering on‑time, accurate results and analysis, and working to tight deadlines. You should have proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders and be a qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA / ACA). You’ll have proven and vast experience of analysing and interpreting financial information within a business context to support decision‑making that drives value. You should be commercially astute, with excellent interpretation and judgement skills, and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel. You’ll have proven experience of constructively challenging, influencing, and persuading business colleagues, and the capability to develop relationships and gain credibility with stakeholders. You’ll be a skilled ‘resource investigator’, bringing in external ideas and expertise, with a track record in identifying and delivering efficiencies. Strong financial awareness and capability, and a high level of business curiosity and engagement is key.

Requirements

• Full and valid UK Manual driving licence.
• DBS to be completed prior to employment.
• Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA).

Equal Opportunity Employer

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11 %.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award‑winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low‑cost loans through Salary Finance.
• We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest‑free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

Our Values

• Results Driven – We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
• Ethical – We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
• Customer Focused – We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.
• Innovative – We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
• One Team – We work together consistently, promoting co‑operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.