Finance Business Partner - People & Overheads

We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego. With over 1,500 team members worldwide, we’re proud of our diverse, inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to speak up, challenge thinking, create breakthroughs and collaborate openly. Our people are what set us apart, and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

Reports to: VP Strategy, Planning & Analysis

Location: London, Farringdon

Hours: 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (4.30pm finish on a Friday)

The Finance Business Partner - People & Overheads Mission: Own financial governance and insight for all people-related costs across a multi-region business, partnering HR and functional leaders. Given the evolution of the broader FP&A structure and the move of management accounts to the global hub, this role is key in elevating cost transparency and forward-looking planning in Farringdon.

How you’ll drive success:

• People Cost Governance
• Act as the primary financial architect for workforce planning, ensuring headcount aligns with strategic growth.
• Provide monthly cost centre reporting, variance analysis, and actionable insights to Exec members.
• Lead the financial analysis for pay reviews, bonus structures, and other ad hoc business cases.
• Partner HR on workforce planning, and organisational design modelling as well as scenario modelling.
• Ensure consistent treatment of vacancies, backfills and phasing.
• Improve cost visibility and reporting (by function, by initiative, by brand/region if necessary).
• Support month end processes with accounting team.
• Partner with Exec and functional leaders (Finance, HR, Legal, IT etc.) on budgets and forecasts.
• Produce input for board reports, budget packs etc. for the relevant areas.

What you’ll need to thrive:

• Strong modelling and analytical skills.
• Comfortable operating with senior executives.
• Organised, proactive and accountable.
• Structured and detail-oriented, with sound control discipline.
• Calm and measured, particularly in sensitive people and executive cost discussions.
• Inquisitive about underlying drivers, not just reporting variances.
• Commercially aware, able to link cost decisions to overall business performance.

Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance with the option to buy more, hybrid and flexible working, enhanced family leave, pension and financial protection, wellbeing support, travel schemes, and generous discounts across Pentland Brands and selected retail partners.

The Interview Process: We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

• Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
• Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
• Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.