Senior Finance Business Partner

Reed; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public sector organization is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to provide financial insight and support decision-making. The role requires a CCAB qualification and offers hybrid working conditions, alongside excellent benefits such as generous pension contributions and annual leave. Your expertise will shape financial delivery strategies in a complex environment, influencing both operational and strategic decisions.

Benefits

28.97% employer's pension contribution

28 days annual leave + bank holidays (rising to 33 days after 5 years)

Qualifications

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CIPFA) required.
• Significant business partnering experience in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver financial insight and support decision-making for budgets up to £100m.
• Interpret financial performance and present insights to executive level.
• Build relationships with leadership to influence financial performance.
• Provide input for business cases and major projects.
• Support group budgets and strategic financial plans.

Skills

CCAB qualified accountant

Financial governance understanding

Business partnering experience

Risk management

Education

CCAB qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CIPFA)

Job description

A large public sector organisation is currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis

Based in London, the role will be offered hybrid with 3 days attendance per week. They have some excellent benefits including28.97% employers pension contributionand 28 days annual leave + bank holidays (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service)

It isessential that you are a CCAB qualified accountant(ACCA/CIMA/ACA/CIPFA). Previous experience in the public sector will be valuable but by no means essential.

As a member of their Finance team, you’ll play a central role in delivering customer-focused, finance services. You’ll help strike the balance between rigorous financial control and a strategic, forward-looking mindset—working across their team to ensure every decision drives the business forward.

You’ll provide expert, professional advice where it matters most and reserve transactional tasks for situations with a clear business need. By adding real value at every touchpoint, you’ll empower your colleagues to focus on the highest-priority, highest-risk challenges.

You will support the Strategic Finance Business Partner in ensuring that they achieve value for money and maximise value from the services it delivers while meeting the needs of the Business. This will be achieved by providing insight, challenge and professional analytical support at both strategic and operational levels, highlighting potential risks/opportunities and identifying options to drive continuous cost reductions and performance improvement within a reducing budget envelope.

Responsibilities include:

• Deliver high-quality financial insight, forecasting, scenario modelling and risk analysis to Budget Holders and operational leads, enabling informed decision-making that drives value for money and cost efficiencies within budgets valued up to £100m.
• Interpret financial performance in partnership with Management Accounting and Reporting, presenting complex financial information in a clear, actionable format to inform decisions at Strategic Finance and Executive level.
• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with business group leadership, directly influencing delivery strategies, resource allocation and financial performance management, particularly for BAU efficiency delivery.
• Provide critical financial input to the development, appraisal, and monitoring of business cases, major projects and programmes, ensuring robust commercial assessment, risk management and governance compliance.
• Support the formulation and delivery of group budgets and strategic financial plans, providing challenge and assurance that proposals are robust, achievable and aligned with organisational objectives.

The ideal candidate

• Fully qualified CCAB (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CIPFA)
• In-depth understanding of financial governance frameworks, commercial principles, risk management, and budgetary processes within large, complex organisations.

• Significant experience of business partnering at senior levels in large-scale, complex environments.
• Proven ability to shape financial delivery strategies, drive efficiencies and provide insightful analysis.
• Experience influencing both operational and strategic decision-making through financial expertise.
• Exposure to external financial governance forums and collaborative work with external stakeholders.

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