Senior Finance Business Partner

British Red Cross; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working: Remote and hybrid

36 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Recognition platform

Discounts and rewards

Learning & development

Will writing service

Death in service

Cycle2Work

Job summary

British Red Cross incorporated is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner for UK Operations. The role drives financial performance and provides strategic guidance across UK operations, collaborating with cross-functional teams and senior leaders.

Responsibilities include planning, budgeting, and translating objectives into robust business cases. The role emphasizes data-driven insights, stakeholder influence, and leadership within a not-for-profit setting.

Qualifications

• Highly computer literate.
• Ability to use compelling storytelling to influence stakeholders.
• Experience leading a professional team to achieve high performance.
• Experience using data to derive insight for decision making.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to annual business plans for a department, ensuring alignment with strategy.
• Recommend financial and headcount budgets.
• Translate business objectives into business cases, costs and schedules to support growth.
• Develop and deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Provide specialist financial advice to senior managers to enable policy, projects and change initiatives.
• Lead and communicate actions to implement the function's strategy within the team.

Skills

Strategic financial guidance

Stakeholder influence

Team leadership

Data-driven decision making

Not-for-profit sector experience

NHS contracting / grant management (y)

Tools

Anaplan

Agresso

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner (UK Operations)

Contract: Permanent, Fixed term contract

Could you as the UK Operations Senior Finance Business Partner, play a crucial role in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making across our operations in the UK?

Are you a seasoned finance professional with extensive experience in providing strategic financial guidance to business leaders?

Could you be responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams, analysing financial data, and offering insights that contribute to achieving business objectives?

What will a day in the life of a Senior Finance Business Partner involve?

• Contribute to the development of annual business plans for a given area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy.
• Recommend financial and headcount budgets.
• Translate business objectives into clearly defined business cases, costs, and schedules to support growth in the business.
• Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
• Lead and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team.

To be a successful Senior Finance Business Partner, what will you need?

• Highly computer literate.
• Ability to use compelling storytelling influence stakeholders.
• Leading and developing a highly skilled professional team to consistently achieve high performance.
• Using data to derive insight and decision making.
• Strong collaboration skills and demonstrable experience of working positively with centres of excellence across the organisation.
• Experience of influencing senior and challenging stakeholders and decision makers.
• Experience and understanding of the not-for-profit sector.
• Knowledge of working with computerised financial systems (e.g. Anaplan and Agresso) and Microsoft suite. (desirable)
• Experience of NHS Contracting and/or grant management. (desirable)

Interested?

The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Wednesday the 18th of November 2026 with interviews to follow.

In return for your commitment and expertise, you'll get:

• Flexible working: Remote and hybrid working, flexitime, compressed hours, and job sharing.
• Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) plus the option to buy extra leave.
• Pension Scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension.
• Recognition Platform: Managers can reward great work with retail vouchers.
• Discounts: Discounts through our Reward Gateway, Blue Light Card, Tickets for Good, and more.
• Learning & Development: A range of career and learning opportunities.
• Will Writing Service: Access to a free will writing service.
• Death in Service: A tax-free lump sum paid to your beneficiary in the event of your death.
• Cycle2Work: Lease a bicycle through the scheme.

We are proud to champion inclusion as a Disability Confident employer across our UK-based roles and as a Carers Confident Employer.

We are dedicated to building an inclusive, equitable and wellbeing-focused culture where everyone feels safe, valued and can thrive. Guided by our Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Strategy, we foster belonging, psychological and physical wellbeing, and work to remove barriers to fair opportunities. Grounded in compassion and anti-racist practice, we listen to diverse voices, value lived experience and create environments where staff and volunteers can succeed. Join us and be part of an organisation that leads with care, celebrates difference and helps everyone succeed.

Together, we are the world's emergency responders