Finance Business Partner

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is seeking a Finance Business Partner to work with stakeholders across the organisation, delivering insightful financial analysis, robust reporting and commercial challenge. The role acts as a trusted adviser to commercial teams, helping leaders understand performance, manage budgets and make strategic decisions.

The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills and experience in a fast-paced, high-profile environment, comfortable working

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with post-qualification experience.
• 3+ years of post-qualified experience in finance roles.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis capabilities.
• Proven ability to partner with non-finance stakeholders.
• Excellent commercial acumen and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with budget holders to drive financial performance and accountability.
• Provide accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting, analysis and commentary.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for designated areas, collaborating with budget holders.
• Analyse financial and operational performance, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, commercially relevant insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions and provide constructive financial challenge to stakeholders.
• Monitor budgets, expenditure and financial commitments with robust controls.
• Lead month-end processes including variance analysis and management reporting.
• Support preparation of monthly consolidated accounts at a commercial and club-wide level.
• Collaborate with the wider Finance team and contribute to process improvements.
• Support ad hoc commercial and strategic projects as required.

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Workday

Salesforce

Excel

Job description

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We are at our brightest when we’re all together. Our club, our teams, our community. We are entering a new era at Tottenham with a new club strategy, new leadership, and a focus on putting our fans at the heart of everything we do as we continue to strengthen our connection with our DNA, our home, and each other.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

The Role

As Finance Business Partner you will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation, providing insightful financial analysis, robust reporting and commercial challenge.

You will act as a trusted financial adviser to key commercial business areas helping leaders understand financial performance, manage budgets effectively and make informed strategic decisions.

The role will suit a qualified accountant who is commercially minded, analytically strong and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with budget holders to drive financial performance and accountability.
• Provide accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting, analysis and commentary.
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes for designated areas of the organisation collaborating with budget holders.
• Analyse financial and operational performance, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, commercially relevant insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions and provide constructive financial challenge to stakeholders.
• Monitor budgets, expenditure and financial commitments, ensuring appropriate financial controls are maintained.
• Lead month-end processes, including variance analysis, accruals, provisions and management reporting for designated areas.
• Support preparation of monthly consolidated accounts at a commercial and club wide level.
• Work collaboratively with the wider Finance team.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of financial processes, systems and reporting.
• Support ad hoc commercial and strategic projects as required.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• 3+ years of post-qualified experience.
• Strong experience of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial analysis.
• Demonstrable experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect financial performance with wider business objectives.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial models and large datasets.
• Experience of working in a complex, fast-paced organisation with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts clearly to non-financial audiences.
• Previous experience within the sports, entertainment, media, leisure or consumer sectors.
• Previous experience in a management accountant or finance business partnering role.
• Experience with Workday.
• Experience with Salesforce.

Personal Attributes:

• Thinks ahead, generates ideas, challenges the way things are.
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates.
• Delivers to high standards, takes responsibility.
• Strong analytical skills and acute attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• An aptitude for systems, processes, insight, and analysis.
• High level of organisational and planning skills.
• Creative, energetic and task focussed.
• Quick learner.
• Comfortable working in a changing and demanding environment.
• Can work under own initiative but is a supportive team member.

Personal Attributes

• Thinks ahead, generates ideas, challenges the status quo.
• Flexibility in ways of working to fit with different business areas.
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates.
• Gets things done, delivers to high standards, takes responsibility.
• Curious about how the business really works, and happy to sit with a sales or finance team until the process is properly understood.
• Explains technical choices in plain language and tells a clear story about the best way to solve a problem.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, takes a loosely defined problem, shapes it into something buildable and ships it.
• Owns outcomes rather than tickets, and cares whether what gets built is actually used.

Safeguarding & Recruitment Statement

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. The Club follows a Safer Recruitment process for all roles. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to proportionate background, DBS and reference checks as required for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process to support candidates with disabilities or specific needs. Please let us know if you require any adjustments so that we can ensure you have a fair and positive experience.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications or due to business needs, so early applications are encouraged.