Finance Business Partner

Allen Lane; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 105,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a part-time Finance Business Partner to enhance financial planning and analysis. This role involves collaborating with senior management, guiding budget holders, and improving business processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, commercial acumen, and a knack for turning complex financial data into actionable insights. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility while being part of a dynamic team focused on driving financial excellence. If you're passionate about finance and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications like ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to present complex financial data in an accessible manner.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and analysis, guiding budget holders through reviews.
• Collaborate with HR on pay awards and headcount modeling.

Skills

Financial Planning

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Commercial Acumen

Excel Proficiency

Process Improvement

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

CIPFA

Tools

MS Office

BI Tools

Job description

This range is provided by Allen Lane. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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Permanent, part-time 3 days a week

Hybrid working, 40% of time in office per month

Office based in Shoreditch

Closest Stations Old Street and Moorgate

The Advertising Standards Authority plays a crucial role at the heart of the UK’s media and communications landscape, ensuring that advertising across all platforms is legal, decent, honest, and truthful. As the UK’s independent advertising regulator, the ASA upholds high standards, protects the public, and builds trust in advertising by working collaboratively with industry, consumers, and other stakeholders.

We are looking to appoint a part-time finance business partner who can lead our continuing financial planning and analysis work and introduce a high-performing business partnering function. The successful person will be an excellent collaborator and be able to present complex financial information in an accessible way, draw insights and make recommendations. They will have good commercial acumen and be a champion for improving business processes. They will work closely with the senior management team and the ASA’s wider management community and be a member of the corporate services management team.

Key areas of responsibilities;

• Set the agenda. Run the annual budget cycle and three year forecasts, gathering income and cost plans from every area and presenting clear analysis to the Senior Management Team.
• Be the go to partner. Guide budget holders through monthly spend reviews, delivering accurate quarterly forecasts, variance commentary and practical advice.
• Power our people plans. Work with HR on annual pay awards, salary budgeting and head count modelling.
• Fuel new opportunities. Build pricing models and robust costings for new services or funding bids, and make sure invoicing is timely and exact.
• Advise the top table. Act as a trusted sounding board to directors, translating financial data into strategic options and risk aware recommendations.
• Model what’s next. Provide ad hoc financial modelling and scenario analysis to underpin projects across the ASA.
• Turn data into insight. Collaborate with systems developers to create dashboards that convert numbers into narrative.
• Streamline how we work. Spot process pain points and lead optimisation initiatives that save time and money.
• Raise financial acumen. Deliver training that gives non finance managers the confidence to own their numbers.

What you’ll bring

• Qualification. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA – or equivalent experience that proves you know your stuff.
• Sharp communication. You make the complicated simple and can challenge constructively at every level.
• Commercial mindset. Comfortable building models from scratch, interrogating large datasets and spotting the story behind the figures.
• Tech fluency. Advanced Excel and solid MS Office skills; experience with BI tools or dashboarding platforms is a plus.
• Process improvement zeal. Knowledge of best practice finance processes and the curiosity to keep refining them.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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