Finance Business Partner

BTG RECRUITMENT; Oakham; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit-share bonus

Employer pension

Death in Service benefit

Sick pay

Professional development

Travel opportunities

Direct exposure to Managing Director

Job summary

BTG RECRUITMENT in Oakham, Rutland is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join the Senior Leadership Team. You will produce monthly management accounts and provide commercial insight to drive growth, while remaining hands-on with accounting tasks.

Ideal candidates are fully qualified in ACCA/ACA/CIMA, with manufacturing/industrial experience, advanced Excel and ERP skills, and a track record in budgeting, forecasting and profitability analysis.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA.
• Experience in manufacturing, engineering or a similar industrial environment.
• Able to personally produce a complete set of monthly management accounts.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance-analysis experience.
• Commercial finance or business-partnering experience.
• Experience analysing profitability, margins, costing and operational performance.
• Advanced Excel and ERP-system knowledge.
• Commercially minded, proactive and able to balance strategy with delivery.

Responsibilities

• Produce the full monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Prepare board reporting packs and present financial performance to senior leaders.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning.
• Analyse performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities.
• Provide commercial insight into customer, product and service profitability.
• Support pricing, costing and margin-improvement initiatives.
• Partner with operational leaders to improve efficiency and control costs.
• Manage cash-flow forecasting and working-capital performance.
• Strengthen financial controls, governance and reporting processes.
• Develop financial models and business cases for investment and growth.
• Support continuous-improvement, ERP and automation projects.
• Assist with acquisitions, international expansion and due diligence.
• Manage and develop a Finance Administrator.

Skills

Commercial finance

Business partnering

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Influence stakeholders

Excel advanced

ERP knowledge

Strategic delivery

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Tools

Power BI

ERP systems

Excel

Job description

Finance Business Partner

Location: Oakham, Rutland Salary: £60,000 + Profit-Share Bonus + Benefits Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time Working Pattern: Office-based

A growing and well-established company based in Oakham is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to join its Senior Leadership Team. Reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will produce the full monthly management accounts while providing commercial insight, financial analysis and strategic support to improve business performance and support continued growth. This is not a purely strategic position. You will remain hands-on with the production of the monthly management accounts while providing the commercial insight, analysis and challenge needed to support senior-level decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce the full monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
• Prepare board reporting packs and present financial performance to senior leaders
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning
• Analyse performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities
• Provide commercial insight into customer, product and service profitability
• Support pricing, costing and margin-improvement initiatives
• Partner with operational leaders to improve efficiency and control costs
• Manage cash-flow forecasting and working-capital performance
• Strengthen financial controls, governance and reporting processes
• Develop financial models and business cases for investment and growth
• Support continuous-improvement, ERP and automation projects
• Assist with acquisitions, international expansion and due diligence
• Manage and develop a Finance Administrator

The Ideal Candidate

• Fully qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA
• Experience within manufacturing, engineering or a similar industrial environment
• Able to personally produce a complete set of monthly management accounts
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance-analysis experience
• Commercial finance or business-partnering experience
• Experience analysing profitability, margins, costing and operational performance
• Confident influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders
• Advanced Excel and strong ERP-system knowledge
• Commercially minded, proactive and comfortable balancing strategic input with hands-on delivery

Experience with manufacturing accounting, including Bills of Materials, labour costing, inventory accounting and operational variances, would be highly advantageous. Exposure to Power BI, acquisitions, investment appraisals or international business would also be beneficial.

What's on Offer

• £60,000 basic salary
• Company profit-share bonus scheme
• Employer pension contribution
• Death in Service benefit
• Company sick pay
• Ongoing professional development and career progression
• Opportunities for UK and international travel
• Direct exposure to the Managing Director
• The opportunity to influence strategic decisions within a growing engineering business

This is an excellent opportunity for a confident, commercially aware finance professional who enjoys combining strategy with hands-on delivery. You'll have the autonomy to make a real impact within a supportive, growing organisation that values initiative, development, and long-term commitment.