Most finance teams can tell you what happened last month. The harder job — the one that actually moves a business — is helping people decide what to do next. That's what this role is built around. You'd be leading the finance business partnering function for a national, multi-site consumer group with a large estate of locations, and serious investment going into a growing direct-to-consumer offer across both physical sites and online. It's a business in motion, with new models to assess and real decisions to influence — not a steady-state reporting seat. Your team of finance business partners sits alongside the operational divisions, and your job is to lead and develop them: building their confidence, their capability and their commercial standing across the business. You'll be a trusted voice to senior leaders too — bringing clarity, challenge and balanced judgement to investment decisions, strategic initiatives and the commercial performance conversations that matter. A lot of that comes down to translation. Taking the analysis and turning it into a narrative an operational leader can actually use — to weigh a proposal, back a decision, or have an honest look at how an initiative is really performing. You'll also help shape the tools, reporting and systems that get better data into the right hands in the first place. You'll be a qualified accountant with genuine commercial acumen and a track record of partnering senior stakeholders in complex or multi-site organisations. Just as importantly, you'll be a proven people leader who develops teams and lifts the standard around them — and someone who's comfortable when the ground keeps shifting. It's a rare chance to shape a high-performing partnering function and have real influence on where a growing business goes next.
