Strategic Finance Business Partner in Poole

Strategic Finance Business Partner

Salary: Up to £65,410 (dependent on experience)

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Location: Poole, Dorset, England

Location description: This will be a hybrid role with a working arrangement between home and Poole support centre.

Interview date: Between 30th Sept and 8th Oct (TBC)

Closing Date: 22-09-2026

Reference: 21939

About our client

Our client’s purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, our client’s lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.

They are looking for a Strategic Finance Business Partner to join their team and work as part of their Business Partnering community, providing financial management, insight, decision support, and analysis to support the organisation. Providing constructive, commercial, and cost-effective financial support and expertise to help the to deliver their lifesaving effect, ensure they spend donors' money wisely, and deliver value for money.

Some of the benefits

• Salary up to £65,410 (dependent on experience)
• Flexible working
• 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata)
• Outstanding pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Health and dental cashplan option

Your role

As a Strategic Finance Business Partner, you will provide first-class financial decision support, planning and analysis to departments and major projects within our client’s organisation, providing the right information to the right people, at the right time, for the right decisions.

As Strategic Finance Business Partner you will:

• Build relationships with and provide full financial guidance and support service to your customers
• Lead the departments on financial planning and forecasting
• Attend relevant departmental and project meetings, ensuring there is a finance presence where appropriate
• Deliver regular financial reports and ad-hoc financial analysis for your customers, finance department and external auditors

About you

Our client’s ideal candidate will have:

• A strong background in financial decision support and planning in a similar fast-paced environment
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and influence at senior levels, and experience in providing constructive challenge as required
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

This role will also line manage and work with a Finance Business Partner, who will help you with all aspects of decision support and planning, so staff management experience is also essential.

If you consider yourself to be someone who enjoys and demonstrates a ‘hands-on’ approach to your role, has well-developed people management and customer care skills, with the ability to liaise at a senior level,

In return for your passion and expertise, you will receive an excellent benefits package, as well as the knowledge that your skills and experience are helping our client to Save Every One.

Safeguarding

Our client is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. They expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity

Our client’s staff and volunteers have been saving lives without prejudice for 200 years. They respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within their teams, and consider it essential to help them deliver a world-class lifesaving service. They are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, they also look for applicants who share their commitment to living our values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping them work towards their vision: To save Every One.