Finance Business Partner

DataCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

DataCareers in London is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a large, complex organisation and partner with senior leaders across Customer & Services.

This role is a commercially focused finance position providing financial insight, challenge and decision support across performance, transformation, investment and planning. You will collaborate with FP&A and Finance to strengthen forecasting and support commercially sound decisions.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience in large, complex organisations.
• Experience in SaaS/software/digital or service-led businesses advantageous.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to provide commercial financial insight and challenge
• Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activity
• Provide financial support for transformation and operational improvement initiatives
• Develop and review business cases, financial models and scenario analysis
• Support investment prioritisation, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis
• Own and improve monthly performance reporting
• Clearly explain financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and commercial performance
• Challenge spend requests and business cases constructively
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Support continuous improvement across finance business partnering, reporting and planning processes

Skills

Finance partnering

Commercial finance

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel / modelling

Financial analysis

Education

Qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Location: London (onsite 2/3 days a week)

We're looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a large, complex organisation and partner with senior leaders across Customer & Services.

This is a commercially focused finance role providing financial insight, challenge and decision support across performance, transformation, investment and planning.

You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, FP&A and Finance, helping improve financial visibility, strengthen forecasting and support commercially sound decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to provide commercial financial insight and challenge
• Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activity
• Provide financial support for transformation and operational improvement initiatives
• Develop and review business cases, financial models and scenario analysis
• Support investment prioritisation, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis
• Own and improve monthly performance reporting
• Clearly explain financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and commercial performance
• Challenge spend requests and business cases constructively
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Support continuous improvement across finance business partnering, reporting and planning processes

Skills and experience

• Qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Strong Finance Business Partnering / Commercial Finance experience
• Experience working within a large, complex organisation, ideally 5,000+ employees
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling experience
• Proven experience partnering and influencing senior non-finance stakeholders
• Experience within SaaS, software, digital, technology-enabled or service-led businesses would be advantageous
• Experience supporting transformation, investment appraisal, benefit tracking, cost initiatives or operating model change
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability "Focus on read" no, keep all original. Actually this part:
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability
• Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrix environment with multiple senior stakeholders