Finance Business Partner Manager

AMS; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AWE is seeking a Finance Business Partner Manager (Inside IR35) for a 12-month hybrid contract based in Reading. You will lead budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting and provide insights to senior stakeholders.

You will mentor the Finance Business Partnering team, build relationships across Finance and Commercial, monitor performance, and ensure robust governance and timely financial messages to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Strong financial analysis and numerical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Forward-facing business partner with budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Experience producing accurate financial reports by deadlines.
• Ability to review and support business cases.
• Knowledge of financial governance and budget control.
• Experience mentoring and developing teams.
• Ability to manage resources and competing priorities.
• Strong relationships across Finance, Commercial and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting activities.
• Provide clear financial insight and advice to senior stakeholders and SLT.
• Build strong relationships across the business and develop a deep understanding of operational priorities.
• Partner closely with Commercial teams to support financial decision-making.
• Manage financial change control, ensuring impacts are understood and reported.
• Lead, support and mentor the Finance Business Partnering team.
• Monitor financial performance, identifying risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Produce accurate reporting and communicate key financial messages up to senior leadership.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Microsoft Office

Financial analysis

Numerical skills

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Business partnering

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Business cases

Financial governance

Team mentoring

Resource management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Smartview

Job description

On behalf of AWE, we are looking for x2 Finance Business Partner Managers (Inside IR35) for a 12 month hybrid contract based out of Reading.

What if you could work on something that you can't test... but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge . That's exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day delivering important work, in support of the most important mission - keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As a Finance Business Partner Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting activities.
• Provide clear financial insight and advice to senior stakeholders and SLT.
• Build strong relationships across the business and develop a deep understanding of operational priorities.
• Partner closely with Commercial teams to support financial decision -making.
• Manage financial change control , ensuring impacts are understood and reported.
• Lead , support and mentor the Finance Business Partnering team.
• Monitor financial performance, identifying risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Produce accurate reporting and communicate key financial messages up to senior leadership .

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Essential:

• Advanced Excel skills and confident across Microsoft Office packages
• Strong financial analysis and numerical skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
• Confident , forward-facing business partner
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis experience
• Experience producing accurate financial reports to deadlines
• Ability to support and review business cases
• Strong understanding of financial governance and budget control
• Experience managing , mentoring and developing teams
• Ability to manage resources and competing priorities
• Strong relationship-building skills across Finance, Commercial and senior stakeholders

Desirable:

• Use financial systems to support effective planning and reporting, with Oracle Fusion experience highly desirable.
• Experienced in using Smartview

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

AWE's ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants .

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, AWE encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role‑specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, AWE welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role‑specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".