Senior Finance Business Partner

Imperial Brands; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global FMCG company is seeking a Finance Business Partner - IT for a 12-month fixed-term role. You'll shape financial strategy, drive performance, and work with senior stakeholders across a dynamic international business. The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with significant business partnering experience and advanced analytical skills. Opportunities for growth, an attractive compensation package, and a commitment to inclusion are offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation package

Bonus scheme

Learning and growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Substantial relevant experience in an accounting or finance role.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Recognized problem-solving skills and strong organizational skillsets.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary finance contact for stakeholders.
• Deliver data-driven financial analysis to support strategic decisions.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external audit requirements.

Skills

Business partnering experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team player

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

The Role

This role is offered as a 12 month fixed term opportunity

Imperial Brands is a dynamic, inclusive, and forward-thinking global FMCG business, powered by a team of 25,000 talented individuals. We're currently seeking a commercially astute Finance Business Partner - IT to play a pivotal role in shaping the financial strategy of our Global IT organisation, which operates with a budget exceeding £350 million.

This is a fantastic opportunity to influence key decisions, drive performance, and collaborate with senior stakeholders across a truly international business. If you're passionate about combining financial expertise with strategic insight in a fast-paced, tech-enabled environment - we'd love to hear from you.

Principle Accountabilities

• Act as the primary finance contact for stakeholders, driving performance, challenging inefficiencies, and delivering actionable insights within a strong financial control framework.
• Maintain accurate and reliable forecasts to support medium- and long-term decision-making, constructively challenging stakeholders to maximise value and performance.
• Collaborate with IT to ensure timely, complete, and insightful monthly performance reporting, championing process improvements and simplifying reporting structures to enhance transparency and efficiency.
• Deliver data-driven financial analysis to support strategic decisions, identifying and prioritising opportunities for cost efficiency and incremental value.
• Provide robust financial input into ad-hoc projects and investment cases, ensuring optimal returns, accurate depreciation forecasting, and effective tracking of benefits realisation.
• Uphold financial control integrity through accurate monthly reconciliations, timely asset management, and full compliance with internal and external audit requirements.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial relevant experience in an accounting or finance role, with considerable time spent in a business partnering capacity.
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Self-motivated and highly analytical, with strong organisational and problem-solving skills; comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong team player, capable of collaborating effectively across different locations and functions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel modelling skills, with high proficiency in other Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we're fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.