Finance Business Partner in London

As a global leader in ship management and marine services, we add value to a vessel's operations. Operating around the clock and around the world, V. gives every client the quality and efficiency they need in every sector. Covering crew management and recruitment, quality ship management and technical services, together with supporting management and commercial services, V. has an unrivalled industry knowledge with performance assured. Our values—We Care, We Collaborate, We Challenge, We are Consistent, We Commit and Deliver—are at the heart of everything we do and they support our strategy of Investing in Talent. We are always interested in making contact with talented individuals who will demonstrate our values and deliver great service to internal and external stakeholders.

Overall Purpose of the Job

The Finance Business Partner (FBP) is a forward‑looking role, leveraging financial analysis to facilitate change and deliver profitable growth. Focused on drivers of growth, retention, and customer profitability, identifying and influencing changes that improve commercial outcomes for the Group. Improving the interpretation and impact of data and financial reporting, delivering insights and analysis that can be applied by the business to ensure that targets are delivered. Influential in the local leadership team, as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and Senior Management, and generating valuable relationships with colleagues across Finance, Commercial and Operations. As a lead representative for Finance locally, overall accountability is taken for ensuring delivery of financial requirements in accordance with local management needs, statutory and legal requirements, and Group policies. Proactive in utilising historic data and information to drive forward view discussions, delivering business and commercial solutions to inform and guide strategic decision‑making.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Build strong and trusted relationships with leadership, operations and across supporting functions.
• Establish the FBP role as a “seat at the table” in all key local decisions, integrating financial considerations to identify opportunities while managing risk.
• Take a big‑picture view on financial focus areas, ensuring activities are structured and delivered in line with Group strategy.
• Partner with the Managing Director in the delivery and communication of office/region performance and delivery against targets.
• Analyse customer profitability, including pricing and cost‑to‑serve contributors, across all responsible customers/vessels; focus on both Ship Management and Marine Services contribution, understand benchmark performance, and identify opportunities.
• Take accountability for review and delivery of financial requirements of remit management units and appointed legal entities, coordinating with Finance Operations and Control teams responsible for report production.
• Advocate data usage and improvement, and digital adoption across the business teams, leveraging Group data resources to identify opportunities and create monitoring mechanisms to evidence metric improvement.
• Work with business and commercial teams to develop value models appropriate for target and existing customers; key contributor to future contracting and pricing decisions.
• Effectively identify and manage financial risks, working with colleagues in Finance and other functions to mitigate.
• Attend customer and prospective customer meetings as required.
• Key Finance contributor to developing a timely and accurate rolling forecast process and to the annual budgeting cycle.

What can I expect in return?

V. Group can offer a market‑leading salary and benefits package, in addition to significant opportunities for career growth and personal development. This is a great opportunity to join a true leader in the maritime sector—a company that has exciting plans for future growth.

Essential

• Evidenced strong soft skills, including presentation, relationship building, emotional intelligence, challenge, influencing, negotiation and facilitation.
• Evidenced curiosity and creative thinking, leading to positive business change/outcomes.
• Proactive and solution‑oriented mindset rather than reactive and firefighting.
• Excellent modelling and analytical capability; ability to extract and communicate messages from numbers.
• Excellent fundamental accounting skills are expected.
• Strong work experience focused across financial disciplines and adequately evidencing commercial finance understanding.

Desirable

• Recognised postgraduate accounting qualification.