Finance Business Partner

Mitie; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Finance

Flexible lifestyle benefits

Extra holidays

Critical illness insurance

Dental treatment

Tech product discounts

Cycle-to-work

Life cover

Pension enhancements

Save-as-you-earn scheme

Share Plan

MiDeals discounts

Job summary

Mitie in the UK is seeking a commercially astute Finance Business Partner to join the Retail, Transport and Mobile finance team. You will partner with senior stakeholders, deliver timely P&L insights and drive improvements in financial performance across a major global health and beauty retailer.

The role focuses on robust financial governance, forecasting, budgeting, and commercial analysis, with opportunities to influence decision making and shape strategic initiatives within a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong business partnering experience influencing senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills with strong numerical ability.
• Ability to translate complex financial information into actionable insights.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial business partnering for a major retailer and drive performance.
• Build robust relationships with client finance teams and stakeholders.
• Deliver timely month-end reporting with variance analysis.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and strategic financial planning.
• Provide financial insight to inform decision-making.

Skills

Business partnering

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Forecasting & budgeting

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

We're looking for a commercially astute and proactive finance business partner to join our Retail, Transport and Mobile finance team. This is a pivotal opportunity where you'll partner closely with senior stakeholders across a major global health and beauty retailer, providing financial insight, constructive challenge, and support to drive better decision‑making. You'll bring strong analytical skills and the ability to turn financial information into practical, actionable insight that improves business performance.

Job Overview

• Lead financial business partnering for a major global health and beauty retailer, driving financial performance and supporting key business decisions
• Establish and maintain robust relationships with client finance teams and key stakeholders, delivering financial insight and constructive challenge to inform and influence decision‑making processes
• Deliver accurate and timely month‑end reporting, ensuring robust financial control, performance analysis, and compliance with reporting requirements
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify risks, opportunities, and actions that enhance business performance
• Support strategic and operational initiatives through financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and commercial analysis

Main Duties

Business Partnering and Insight

• Act as the key finance contact for both internal and external stakeholders, building strong and effective working relationships
• Provide insightful financial and analytical reporting to understand business performance, risks, and opportunities
• Challenge and support operational teams to drive revenue growth, margin enhancement, and cost efficiency
• Partner with stakeholders to support strategic decision‑making through financial insight and commercial analysis
• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes

Financial Governance and Performance Reporting

• Own the accurate and timely delivery of P&L, balance sheet, and working capital reporting
• Produce monthly management accounts, including clear variance analysis and commentary on key performance drivers
• Ensure all client reporting requirements are delivered accurately and within agreed deadlines
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure compliance with internal policies and reporting standards
• Support month‑end and year‑end close processes, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial information, with a strong focus on control and governance

What we are looking for

• Strong business partnering experience with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decision‑making
• Advanced Excel skills with strong numerical and analytical capability
• Proven ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insight
• Experience operating in a fast‑paced, evolving environment with tight deadlines
• Proactive, self‑motivated approach with strong ownership and accountability
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy and delivery quality
• Strong integrity with a commitment to robust financial governance and control

Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie's 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie's 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at [e-mail].