Finance Business Partner

Distinct | B Corp; Mexborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct | B Corp is seeking a Finance Business Partner to work alongside the manufacturing arm and core Finance function, influencing decisions with strong analytical skills.

You will deliver management information, budgets and business cases, partnering with senior stakeholders to support performance improvements and strategic direction.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent.
• Strong communicator with finance and non-finance managers at all levels, able to translate financial information clearly and start to influence decisions.
• Able to prioritise and manage competing expectations.
• Genuinely motivated to improve processes.
• Comfortable working independently and owning tasks.
• Track record in business partnering.
• Strong written and verbal reporting experience.
• Curious about the business, with a focus on insight-led decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Business partnering; working across a wide stakeholder base, building relationships strong enough to constructively challenge, while bringing your own ideas to the table.
• Internal reporting; reviewing, analysing and communicating financial performance to key stakeholders, flagging where performance can improve.
• Budget management and forecasting; supporting rolling forecasts and budgets that are realistic and agile, working with stakeholders to flag risk and opportunity clearly.
• Financial modelling; building models and business cases alongside stakeholders and other business units, with robust post-implementation reviews against those cases.
• Continuous improvement; proactively looking for ways to improve process.
• Deputising and supporting the wider team as needed.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Management reporting

Decision support

Business partnering

Analytical thinking

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER

The role:

This is a Finance Business Partner position sitting alongside the manufacturing arm of a well-established UK group. You’ll work closely with operational stakeholders in that business unit, using strong relationship-building and analytical skills to influence decision-making and drive performance, both in the short term and on the bigger strategic calls that shape where the manufacturing business is heading.

Alongside this, you’ll sit within the core group Finance function, building relationships across the wider business and keeping Finance central to how decisions get made. You’ll be working with a broad range of senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders, contributing to decision-making and producing management information, financial plans and business cases to a high standard.

What the role covers:

• Business partnering; working across a wide stakeholder base, building relationships strong enough to constructively challenge, while bringing your own ideas to the table.
• Internal reporting; reviewing, analysing and communicating financial performance to key stakeholders, flagging where performance can improve.
• Budget management and forecasting; supporting rolling forecasts and budgets that are realistic and agile, working with stakeholders to flag risk and opportunity clearly.
• Financial modelling; building models and business cases alongside stakeholders and other business units, with robust post-implementation reviews against those cases.
• Continuous improvement; proactively looking for ways to improve process.
• Deputising and supporting the wider team as needed.

What they’re looking for:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent.
• Strong communicator with finance and non-finance managers at all levels, able to translate financial information clearly and start to influence decisions.
• Able to prioritise and manage competing expectations.
• Genuinely motivated to improve processes.
• Comfortable working independently and owning tasks.
• Track record in business partnering.
• Strong written and verbal reporting experience.
• Curious about the business, with a focus on insight-led decision-making.