Finance Business Partner

Position: Finance Business Partner

Reporting Line: Head of Finance

Working Pattern: On-site (some flex to work from home 1 day per week)

Overview

An opportunity has arisen for a commercially focused FP&A professional to join a centralised finance function. The role will support the enhancement of financial planning and analysis capabilities, with a strong emphasis on improving reporting processes, delivering meaningful insight, and increasing automation across the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Finance Transformation lead to help deliver and optimise a financial planning and reporting system.
• Act as a finance partner throughout the budgeting and forecasting cycles, supporting key stakeholders.
• Capture business requirements and translate them into clear development specifications for reporting and planning tools.
• Support the creation of consistent, automated reporting outputs and dashboards.
• Develop and maintain data integration processes as additional data sources are incorporated into reporting systems.
• Analyse consolidated financial performance and forecasts, providing clear and actionable insights to senior management.
• Work closely with both central and operational teams to enhance reporting quality and streamline planning processes.
• Support the transition from manual spreadsheet-based reporting to system-driven, automated solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices within FP&A, promoting a more insight-led approach.
• Present financial information to senior stakeholders, converting complex datasets into clear, concise narratives.

Skills & Experience Required

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with a solid grounding in finance.
• Proven experience in a business partnering role, engaging with both operational and senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel capabilities, including financial modelling.
• Strong knowledge of core FP&A activities such as budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Ability to quickly adapt to and learn new systems and tools.
• Understanding of data structures within relational databases.
• Experience developing reports using financial systems or BI tools (e.g. planning or visualisation platforms).
• Demonstrable experience of reviewing and enhancing existing processes.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to distil complex data into meaningful insights.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and commercially aware.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with accountability for delivering outputs.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on adding value through data and analysis.