Head of Finance Business Partnering - CS & Logistics

Takeaway.com; Fleet; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global online delivery platform is looking for a Finance Business Partner to lead financial strategies and collaborations within a dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have extensive financial leadership experience, strong stakeholder management skills, and a strategic mindset to drive performance and efficiency. This role is hybrid, requiring 3 days in the London office and 2 days working from home.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a matrix environment as a finance leader.
• Proven success in managing high-performance teams.
• Ability to influence at all levels and partner with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to leadership teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of business drivers and challenges.
• Provide robust financial analysis to support strategic initiatives.
• Drive financial planning and reporting processes.
• Build strong relationships and communicate financial insights.

Skills

Financial leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Results-oriented mindset

Job description

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead a talented team of business partners, working closely with the EXCO and their management team to drive financial and commercial success. You will be the business partner for Logistics and Customer Services, delivering outstanding commercial analysis and insights while shaping functional strategy and supporting key initiatives such as efficiency optimisation, workforce planning and automation analysis. You’ll help define strategic plans, translate them into budgets and forecasts, and measure progress through clear KPIs, reporting and analytics. Success in this role requires strong collaboration and communication, reflecting our values to Lead, Deliver and Care, as well as our customer‑centric, teamwork‑focused approach. You will engage with senior stakeholders and contribute at a global functional level.

Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week from our London office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Senior Director Finance Business Partnering – Group

These are some of the key components to the position

• Strategic business partnering leadership: Act as a strategic advisor to the Delco, Scoober and CS Leadership, helping shape and challenge strategy, providing financial insights and perspectives on key decisions.
• Embedding Finance within the Business: develop a deep understanding of the business drivers, challenges and opportunities within your functions; upskilling the business in financial and commercial considerations and promoting a collaborative relationship between finance and operational teams.
• Supporting strategic decision‑making: Providing robust financial analysis and modelling to support strategic initiatives, including business cases and investment appraisals. Working closely with the business to optimise resource allocation and achievement of strategic goals.
• Driving financial performance and accountability: Help drive financial planning, forecasting and reporting processes for the functions, challenging assumptions and providing recommendations to improve efficiency, profitability and return on investment; whilst promoting a culture of financial accountability and ownership within the business.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business and within finance; effectively communicating financial information, insights and recommendations to both finance and non‑finance audiences.

What will you bring to the team?

• Extensive financial (functional and managerial) leadership experience in a matrix environment.
• Experienced people leader and managing high‑performance commercial teams.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills to effectively partner with stakeholders across all levels.
• Strategic thinking; to be able to see the big picture and translate that into clear goals, plans and deliverables.
• Analytical & problem‑solving skills with the ability to challenge existing processes and ways of working, seeking to improve the status quo.
• Relentless, results‑orientation; someone that wants to go the extra mile to get the job done.

At JET, this is on the menu

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best‑known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast‑paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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