Finance Business Partner

Gravitas Group; Buckingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 81,000; Part time

Job summary

Gravitas Group is seeking an Interim Finance Business Partner to join during a critical budgeting and forecasting cycle. This hands-on role requires quickly building relationships and delivering strong commercial finance support across Estates, IT and Corporate Services.

You will partner with service owners and budget holders, delivering robust analysis and insights while maintaining a proactive, fast-paced approach in a hybrid environment in Buckinghamshire.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Finance Business Partner or interim role.
• Strong Excel skills and data handling with ability to produce outputs quickly.
• Accounting qualification or equivalent (part-qualified/fully qualified) or equivalent by experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with pace and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders and budget holders.
• Provide budgeting support, budget setting, and forecasting throughout the cycle.
• Deliver clear financial insights, analysis, and commentary to support operational decisions.
• Support service areas with financial planning and performance (Estates, IT, Corporate Services).
• Identify issues, investigate variances, and propose practical solutions.
• Contribute to improving ways of working in a capacity-constrained team.

Skills

Finance

Stakeholder management

Excel

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Accounting qualification / AAT / QBE

Tools

Excel

Job description

Interim Finance Business Partner (Outside IR35)

Location:Buckingham, Buckinghamshire (Hybrid – approx. 3 days onsite)
Contract:UK Contract |Duration:~4 months (now–end of December), with potential extension
Rate:£300/day |IR35:Outside IR35
Start:Ideally w/c21 September 2026

Overview

We’re supportinga HE organisationwith an urgent requirement for anInterim Finance Business Partnerto add immediate capacity into the team during a critical period (budgeting and forecasting cycle). This is a hands‑on partnering role, suited to someone who canhit the ground running, quickly build relationships, and provide strong commercial finance support across a varied stakeholder group.

You’ll partner with service owners and budget holders across areas includingEstates, IT, and Corporate Services, combining stakeholder engagement with robust financial analysis (number crunching) to support decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders and budget holders
• Provide budgeting support, budget setting, andforecastingthroughout the cycle
• Deliver clear financial insights, analysis, and commentary to support operational decisions
• Support service areas (includingEstates, IT, and Corporate Services) with financial planning and performance
• Identify issues, investigate variances, and propose practical solutions
• Contribute to improving ways of working in a team that is not currently BAU due to capacity constraints

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working as aFinance Business Partner(or equivalent interim role)
• Confident, proactive stakeholder management withexcellent communicationskills
• Accounting qualification (part-qualified / fully qualified)or AAT, orqualified by experience
• StrongExcelskills and comfort handling data and producing usable outputs quickly
• Problem-solving mindset and ability to operate with pace and autonomy

Desirable

• Higher Education experience
• Track record of working in fast-moving, capacity‑constrained environments