Finance Business Partner

Alexander Lloyd; Horsham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Lloyd is recruiting a Finance Business Partner for a rapidly expanding manufacturing business in Horsham. This newly created role focuses on in-depth financial partnering with senior stakeholders and strong FP&A leadership.

The role requires a 4-day-per-week in-office pattern and a manufacturing/aerospace-relevant background would be beneficial. The successful candidate will drive budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning across business units, ensuring accurate reporting and

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with relevant professional qualification.
• Strong background in commercial finance delivering insightful financial analysis.
• Excellent communication with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the financial integrity and highlighting risks and opportunities for the project.
• Provide insights on pricing strategy, discount structures, and customer profitability to support ROI decisions.
• Support sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and revenue growth strategies.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting for business units, aligning with overall strategy.
• Collaborate with Finance to ensure timely production of monthly Management Accounts.
• Assist in budgeting and forecasting with project teams for robust financial forecasting.
• Influence and drive a culture of tighter cost planning, review and management.
• Contribute to monthly cash forecasting with project-level near-term cash planning and reporting.
• Develop project-level KPIs to aid decision making at company and group levels.

Skills

Commercial finance experience

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Tools

Excel

Job description

Alexander Lloyd are proud to be partnering a rapidly expanding manufacturing business located in Horsham to recruit for a Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)Finance Business Partner. This role is newly created due to team expansion. This will be 4 days PW in the office

This is a true FBP role with extensive stakeholder engagement with non finance professionals

The Business Partner will be pivotal in providing the financial support both to the business during a period of rapid business growth and operational scaling and to the broader finance team to ensure accuracy of reporting and forecasting.

Duties will include but not be limited too:

• Own and manage the financial integrity and ensuring that the financial position of that project and any risks and opportunities are well highlighted and understood.
• Provide insights on pricing strategy, discount structures, and customer profitability to support the evaluation of commercial deals and bids for financial viability and ROI.
• Support sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and revenue growth strategies.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting for business units, ensuring alignment with overall strategy.
• In collaboration with the Finance team, ensure timely production of monthly Management Accounts.
• Assist in the budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with the project teams and the finance team to ensure a well-rounded and considered financial forecast.
• Influence and drive a culture that plans, reviews and delivers tighter cost understanding, control and management.
• Feed into the monthly cash forecasting process, developing appropriate project level near-term cash forecasting, management and reporting, identifying opportunities for working capital improvements.
• Develop key project level performance indicators and metrics that support and enable better decision making at a project level, that foster simplicity, clarity and a better understanding at both company and group level

Skill set

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• A strong background within commercial finance
• Excellent communication skills as this role will partner extensively with senior stakeholders (finance & non finance)
• Advanced Excel
• 4 days office - non negotiable
• A background in manufacturing, aerospace, aviation beneficial but not essential