Finance Business Partner

Edinburgh City Football Club Limited.; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide high-quality financial support and guidance to senior management. This role involves influencing business decisions, managing relationships across Finance, and ensuring compliance with governance. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and demonstrate strong analytical and communication skills, along with the ability to navigate complex financial information.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services and business partnering.
• Comfortable operating in a matrix structure.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and guidance to senior management.
• Support analysis of the bank's annual budget strategy.
• Drive improvements to the budget process.

Skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Negotiation

Education

CA, ACA, CIMA, MBA or equivalent

Job description

Join us as a Finance Business Partner

• We'll look to you to provide high quality financial support, guidance, challenge and insight for executive and senior management across Finance and the wider bank, partnering with the Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Director of Finance and Investor Relations
• You'll be influencing business decisions by providing commercial and financial expertise, ensuring compliance with the bank's governance
• This challenging and rewarding role offers significant exposure and the opportunity to raise your profile across the bank

What you'll do

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll be managing the relationship across Finance and the wider bank, including business partnering with the Group CFO.

Day-to-day, you'll be:

• Supporting analysis and governance papers regarding the bank's annual five year budget strategy and financial plan, analysing group trends with review and challenge to influence decisions
• Reviewing and challenging scenario analysis and high level sensitivities for the bank, providing insightful analysis and commentary in support of onward communication to ExCo and the board
• Driving improvements to the budget process, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities while streamlining processes in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Supporting the communication of the bank's financial performance to senior management and the market
• Working closely with franchise support teams and other stakeholders to improve robust group level analysis across key metrics for the bank

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with a CA, ACA, CIMA, MBA qualification or equivalent, and financial services and business partnering experience. Along with a high level of commercial decision making and negotiation skills, you'll be comfortable operating within a matrix structure organisation, and you'll have the ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk.

With excellent communication and influencing skills, you'll need the ability to communicate complex financial information in a concise, non-technical manner.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Effective analytical and time management skills
• A flexible approach
• The ability to review long-term impacts of plans
• The ability to work in an agile manner to deliver business outcomes
• Strong stakeholder and people management skills