Finance Business Partner
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Experience working within finance departments and with non-finance staff.
- Experience in Finance Business Partner roles.
- Background in the not-for-profit sector.
Responsibilities
- Support operational and senior leaders with analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Build relationships to provide financial advice and challenge.
- Contribute to the implementation of Power BI reporting.
Skills
Education
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Job description
Are you a part-qualified or qualified accountant with a flair for finance business partnering and a passion for making a difference in the not-for-profit sector?
BPAS are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. This is a permanent, hybrid role working 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You'll work primarily from home, with travel to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week.
As a FBP, you will work across the organisation supporting operational and senior leaders with insightful analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and financial advice. You'll build trusted relationships, provide challenge where needed, and help shape decisions through a strong understanding of financial performance.
Your work will include project monitoring, contract profitability reviews, KPI reporting, and long-term planning. You'll also contribute to the implementation of Power BI reporting, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with internal policies.
- Provide business partner support to other non-finance teams to understand and control their budgets and achieve their financial KPIs
- Analyse variances each month and investigate with accounts team as necessary, challenging and escalating where issues are uncovered
- Analyse monthly activity and income activity by contract, service, and location to understand price and volume variances
- Manage the tracking of business cases from authorisation to implementation of projects
- Liaise with business case managers so they are able to maintain good financial control of project budgets, in particular for new premises and for major IT projects
- Budget and forecast responsibilities include the maintenance of annual & quarterly reporting
- Assist the development of reports for long term financial planning and scenario analysis for support decision making and risk assessment
- Provide contract profitability and financial performance, for tenders and periodic review
You’ll be a part-qualified or qualified accountant with experience in a finance role and a proactive, collaborative approach. You'll have strong communication skills and the ability to work confidently with colleagues at all levels. Proficiency in Excel is essential, and experience with Power BI or financial modelling would be advantageous. Whether your background is in the not-for-profit or commercial sector, your ability to influence through insight will be key to your success.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent reproductive healthcare charity, providing evidence-based, not-for-profit reproductive healthcare. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS, offering abortion care, contraception, and STI testing and treatment across the country.
When you join BPAS, you become part of a values-driven organisation where compassion, professionalism, and choice guide everything we do. You will help remove barriers to safe reproductive care while supporting people to make informed choices about their health and futures.
- 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Life assurance at 3 salary
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Access to GP 24/7, 365 days a year
- MyMindPal mental fitness app and 24/7 counselling support
- Online discounts, discounted gym membership, and other lifestyle benefits
- Family-friendly policies to support work-life balance
BPAS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services, and all staff share this responsibility. Recruitment follows safer-recruitment principles and includes appropriate pre-employment checks.
We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We are proud to be an inclusive employer and will make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair and accessible recruitment process for all candidates.
We may close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications, although we aim to keep it open long enough to ensure a diverse and representative applicant pool.
If you have any questions about the role or require adjustments to support your application, please get in touch, we are happy to help.
Hybrid working with the expectation of travel to our Head Office once per week. Potential to have to travel more for training in the first few weeks.
36 hours
- Monday to Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00
- Friday | 09:00 - 15:30
£44,644 to £48,731 per annum - Depending on skills and experience
Interested in making a difference? Apply today to join our team.
All applicants must be pro choice and support a woman's right to choose, in line with BPAS values and mission.
If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
All offers of employment are conditional on satisfactory pre-employment checks. Applicants must provide three years of employment references, including reasons for leaving and details of any gaps in employment.
- Experience of working within finance departments and with non finance staff
- Experience of working with different finance and data systems
- Finance Business Partner experience
- Experience of working within the not-for-profit sector
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship.
- This is a hybrid role working from home and travelling to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week. Can you commit to this?
- Are you aware this role is for 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday?
- Please list any further information or statements if you wish to support your application.
- Part Qualified or Fully accountant - preferably with CIMA (please specify)
- Further education in STEM subject
- Understanding of financial accounting principles
- Use of KPI metrics to drive an organisations performance
- Good Excel skills (e.g. pivots, SUMIFs etc.) including experience of modelling
- Good communicator with ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation about numbers and to present figures visually
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