Finance Business Partner - Consulting

Davies; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join their dynamic FP&A team. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a self-starter with strong financial modelling skills and experience in stakeholder management. You will be responsible for owning the annual budget, producing valuable management information, and providing insights to support business recommendations. With a focus on commercial exposure and process improvement, this position is perfect for someone looking to make a significant impact while working closely with consulting teams. If you’re ready to take on new challenges and drive business success, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of FP&A experience with strong stakeholder management.
• Excellent financial modelling skills and experience with high-volume data.

Responsibilities

• Own the Consulting capabilities annual budget and financial reporting.
• Produce business forecasts and performance reports with insightful commentary.

Skills

FP&A Experience

Stakeholder Management

Data Presentation Tools

Commercial Acumen

Productivity Analysis

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft D365

Excel

Job description

Finance Business Partner - Consulting

Application Deadline: 14 May 2025

Department: Corporate Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London UK

Description

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays an integral role supporting the business in making educated business decisions. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys exploring the latest data analysis techniques, someone who wants to get involved in commercial business development support and is looking for a challenge.

The role will provide you with commercial exposure to all functions. You will play a key role in business partnering with consulting teams to produce valuable insights and to support business recommendations, taking ownership of the financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Consulting capabilities annual budget, supporting the Managing Partner submissions, and consolidating the Group overheads. Submitting final numbers into the Davies Group finance deliverables.
• Support to financial control teams to standardise data, managing data journey from start to end reports.
• Analyse trends and key drivers in business, suggesting solutions to mitigate risk and accelerate opportunities.
• Produce short-term and medium-term business forecasts and performance reports supported by insightful commentary on variances.
• Produce valuable MI to businesses, including SLT and board reporting.
• Produce Practice performance reports, including margin and pricing analysis, supporting new bids and M&A activities where appropriate.
• Perform detailed revenue and gross margin analysis by understanding and communicating to the Managing Partners any leakage based on the utilisation reports and ongoing resourcing demands including cost rate analysis.
• Liaise and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the organisation.
• Identify process improvements within the FP&A function, including getting best use from current and future finance systems.
• Be an expert and excel, understanding modelling techniques, and how to leverage data tools such as PowerBI.
• Provide ad hoc support to the business team whenever required.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• FP&A Experience of 5-8 years.
• Demonstrable senior stakeholder management
• Experience of latest data presentation tools including Power BI.
• Strong commercial acumen and business partnership experience
• Experience working for a multinational company, understanding FX impacts, and working with a distributed workforce.
• Experience with productivity/utilisation analysis.

Essential:

• Newly qualified - ACCA, ACA, CIMA.
• Excellent modelling skills on excel, good with unstructured, high-volume data must (financial modelling skills are key).
• Self-starter with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
• Solution finder with the courage to challenge the status quo.
• Organised and capable of managing own time to meet multiple deliverables/deadlines.
• Business partnering experience.

Desirable:

• Consulting Services background, with experience
• Microsoft D365 and Power BI