Finance Business Partner: Central Costs & People

B&M Retail; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Benefits portal access

Wellbeing support

Job summary

B&M Retail seeks a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to support the management and control of Central Costs, partnering with the People team. The role suits a newly qualified accountant or someone with 2–3 years PQE, offering exposure to governance, dashboards and cost analysis.

Based at the Speke Support Centre with one day per week home working, you will work with Finance, People, and Functional Leaders to drive insights, challenge, and financial support across people-related

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, or nearing completion, with ~2–3 years post-qualification experience in a commercial finance, FP&A or finance business partnering role.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate financial information for non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience supporting budgets, forecasts and management reporting in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the People team and budget holders to provide financial insight and support on workforce and cost decisions.
• Review and validate costings for new roles, restructures and changes ensuring alignment with budget and governance.
• Develop and embed governance processes for headcount management and central cost control.
• Produce and analyse monthly central cost reporting, highlighting variances, risks and opportunities.
• Build dashboards and KPIs using Power BI and Excel for timely stakeholder insights.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting across central cost areas, focusing on people-related expenditure.
• Improve data quality, reporting consistency and transparency across central costs.
• Provide analysis and commentary to support decision-making for department leaders.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes and controls within central cost environment.
• Support ad hoc commercial analysis and business cases as required.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excel

Power BI

Stakeholder influence

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or near completion

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

B&M Retail seeks a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to support the management and control of Central Costs, partnering with the People team. The role suits a newly qualified accountant or someone with 2–3 years PQE, offering exposure to governance, dashboards and cost analysis.

Based at the Speke Support Centre with one day per week home working, you will work with Finance, People, and Functional Leaders to drive insights, challenge, and financial support across people-related