Finance Partner: Insight-Driven Growth & Flexible Hours

Grant Thornton UK; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK LLP is seeking a Finance Business Partner to partner with business leaders, turning financial data into actionable insight. You will support decision-making, explain performance drivers, and drive initiatives that improve results, with automation and offshore support for routine tasks.

The role offers flexible working options and potential reduced hours or job shares to help balance work and life.

Qualifications

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant with management accounting / FP&A background.
• Strong analytical skills (Excel/modelling) and ability to use dashboards/BI to generate insight quickly.
• Good business partnering behaviours: curiosity, constructive challenge, and ability to influence without authority.
• Comfort with AI-enabled ways of working: drafting, summarising, and checking outputs with validation.

Responsibilities

• Forecasting and planning: maintain driver-based forecasts; identify gaps to plan and propose actions (pricing, capacity, cost, delivery).
• Performance analysis: interpret results and explain the “so what”; focus on trend, mix, and leading indicators, not just retrospective variance.
• Commercial support: support fee proposals, contract/margin assessments, and post-deal tracking; highlight risks in scope, recovery, and resourcing.
• Working capital and controls: oversee WIP/debt hygiene via exception reporting; elevate issues and agree interventions with owners.
• Process improvement: identify recurring requests suitable for automation; help define standard packs, templates, and data definitions.
• Communication: Deliver results to key stakeholders with clear added value messages.
• Coaching: guide Assistant FBPs and analysts; review their outputs and develop their commercial awareness

Skills

Management accounting

FP&A

Business partnering

Excel modelling

BI dashboards

AI-enabled working

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA part-qualified or qualified

Tools

Excel

BI/Power BI

Job description

Grant Thornton UK LLP is seeking a Finance Business Partner to partner with business leaders, turning financial data into actionable insight. You will support decision-making, explain performance drivers, and drive initiatives that improve results, with automation and offshore support for routine tasks.

The role offers flexible working options and potential reduced hours or job shares to help balance work and life.