Finance Business Partner

Buro Happold; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Buro Happold is seeking a Finance Business Partner in Bath on a hybrid basis. The role combines strong technical accounting with strategic business partnering to support a diverse project portfolio.

You will work with Project Directors and senior stakeholders delivering management accounts, forecasts and commercial insight to drive performance and sustainable growth across the UK+ finance team.

Qualifications

• Experience in business partnering, management accounting or commercial finance.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication and Stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and control monthly management and project accounts.
• Support annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Partner with Project Directors and leadership through project finance reviews.
• Provide financial guidance and insightful analysis to improve project performance.
• Monitor revenues, costs, profitability and WIP positions.
• Manage debtor reviews and identify financial risks and opportunities.
• Deliver monthly financial commentary and present performance insights.

Skills

Business partnering

Management accounting

Commercial finance

Excel advanced

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Forecasting

WIP reporting

FX reporting

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ ACA

Tools

Agresso

Deltek Vantagepoint

Job description

Ready to influence business decisions beyond the numbers? Join Buro Happold as a Finance Business Partner and help drive the financial success of world-class projects.

This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model.

At Buro Happold, we're passionate about creating a future where everyone can thrive. As a world-renowned multidisciplinary consultancy, we deliver innovative solutions that help transform the built environment, tackling some of the world's most complex engineering, design and sustainability challenges.

We're looking for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to join our UK+ Finance team in Bath. This is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys combining strong technical accounting expertise with strategic business partnering, helping project leaders make informed decisions that drive performance and support sustainable growth.

About The Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll play a pivotal role within an established finance team, partnering with Project Directors, Project Operations teams and senior stakeholders across the business.

You'll be responsible for the end-to-end production of management accounts, project financial performance reporting, forecasting and providing commercial insight that influences decision-making across a diverse project portfolio.

This role offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders and provides an excellent opportunity to develop both your commercial and leadership capabilities within a collaborative, global organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and controlling monthly management and project accounts.
• Supporting the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Partnering with Project Directors and leadership teams through regular project finance reviews.
• Providing financial guidance, challenge and insightful analysis to improve project performance.
• Monitoring project revenues, costs, profitability and work-in-progress positions.
• Managing debtor reviews and identifying financial risks and opportunities.
• Delivering monthly financial commentary and presenting performance insights to stakeholders.
• Supporting financial and commercial decision-making across your portfolio.
• Collaborating closely with Project Operations teams and regional finance colleagues.
• Maintaining ownership and control of assigned cost centres.
• Producing quarterly WIP and foreign exchange reporting.
• Acting as a key point of contact for financial matters within your business area.
• Driving continuous improvement in financial processes, controls and reporting.

About You

We're looking for someone who combines technical finance expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills and a proactive, solution-focused approach.

You’ll bring:

• Experience operating in a business partnering, management accounting or commercial finance role.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge alongside commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to engage, challenge and influence stakeholders.
• Outstanding attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for building strong relationships with non-finance colleagues.
• A proactive approach, with the confidence to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.

Qualifications

• Studying towards or fully qualified in CIMA, ACCA or ACA.

It Would Be Great If You Also Have:

• Experience within professional services, engineering, consultancy or construction environments.
• Knowledge of Agresso financial systems.
• Experience using Deltek Vantagepoint.

Why Join Buro Happold?

At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

What we Offer You:

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.