Finance Business Partner - Consumer Brands

Altum Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy seeks a Finance Business Partner for a hybrid role based in London. This high-impact position requires a qualified accountant with extensive experience in Finance Business Partnering. Responsibilities include overhead budgeting, forecasting, and supporting transformation initiatives. You'll partner with senior stakeholders across functions, ensuring cost discipline and transparency. The role offers competitive compensation, including a car allowance and bonus potential, plus significant executive exposure within the organization.

Benefits

Car allowance

Up to 30% bonus

Private healthcare

Pension

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance roles.
• Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders.
• Digitally minded, with experience improving systems and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior finance partner to Group functions.
• Own Group overhead budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and cost visibility.

Skills

Finance Business Partnering

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder Management

Cost Management

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)

Tools

Power BI

OneStream

Job description

Finance Business Partner

London (Hybrid - 3 days office)

£90,000 -95,000 pa + car allowance + up to 30% bonus, Pension, private healthcare

We're partnering with a global, complex, consumer-led organisation operating across multiple brands and geographies to appoint a Finance Business Partner into a high-impact Group role.

This position reports directly to a commercial, influential Group Finance Director and plays a key role in strengthening cost discipline, transparency and value creation across central functions.

The role

• Act as the senior finance partner to Group functions (e.g. HR, IT, Legal, Strategy, Transformation)
• Own Group overhead budgeting, forecasting and rolling forecast processes
• Deliver clear, insightful monthly reporting with forward-looking commentary
• Support investment cases, headcount planning and transformation initiatives
• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and cost visibility
• Embed strong cost governance and identify efficiency opportunities
• Develop dashboards, KPIs and management information for senior stakeholders
• Support finance process improvement, automation and data quality initiatives

Over time, the role will evolve from strong cost control into proactive commercial partnering and value optimisation.

About you

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong experience in Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance roles
• Proven ability to partner senior stakeholders across central functions
• Commercial, intellectually curious and confident challenging constructively
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, modelling and cost-centre management capability
• Digitally minded, with experience improving systems, reporting and data quality

Desirable:

• Experience with Power BI, OneStream or similar tools
• Exposure to automation, AI or finance transformation
• Experience in multi-country, matrixed organisations

Why apply?

• High-visibility Group role with Exec-level exposure
• Strong development runway under an impactful Group FD
• Broad remit across a complex international organisation
• Highly competitive total package and hybrid working