Senior Finance Business Partner

JSS; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

JSS in Leeds is seeking an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join their investment management client on a 12 month fixed term contract, with strong potential to become permanent. The role is high-visibility, partnering with Executive Directors to translate business plans into financial outcomes and influence decision-making.

You'll lead financial planning and analysis, challenge thinking, and bring rigour to complex financial and commercial issues, operating at pace and engaging

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with Big Four experience in FP&A, forecasting, budgeting and business partnering at senior level.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with credibility to influence senior leaders.
• Commercial focus with ability to translate analysis into forward-looking insight.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Executive Directors and senior leaders to translate strategic priorities into financial outcomes.
• Lead major strategic programmes and change initiatives with financial rigour and business cases.
• Own FP&A cycle for the area, including multi-year forecasting, budgeting and monthly reporting.
• Provide insights and analysis to shape strategic decision-making and identify risks/opportunities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to programme leads, embedding financial discipline in planning and delivery.
• Support transaction and investment activity with financial due diligence where relevant.
• Build and maintain robust financial models for scenario planning and investment appraisal.
• Challenge senior stakeholders to ensure accountability for financial performance.

Skills

Big Four

Stakeholder management

FP&A

Financial modelling

Budgeting

Business partnering

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Job description

12 Month Fixed Term Contract (chance to go permanent)

Hybrid 2 days per week in the office

Leeds City Centre

JSS is looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join their investment management client in Leeds on a 12 month fixed term contract, with strong potential to become permanent.

This is a senior, high-visibility role. You'll partner closely with senior leaders, including Executive Directors, translating business plans into meaningful financial outcomes and providing insight that genuinely influences decision-making. Acting as a trusted advisor across the organisation, you'll lead financial planning and analysis, challenge thinking, and help shape strategy, while bringing rigour and structure to complex financial and commercial issues.

This role is suited to someone who is confident operating at pace, comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels, and who brings a strong technical grounding along with commercial and transactional experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Business partner with Executive Directors and senior leaders, translating business plans and strategic priorities into clear financial outcomes
• Take a lead role in supporting major strategic programmes and change initiatives, providing financial rigour, robust business cases, and ongoing tracking of costs and benefits
• Own the FP&A cycle for your area, including multi-year forecasting, budgeting, and monthly management reporting
• Provide financial insight and analysis that shapes strategic decision‑making, proactively identifying risks and opportunities rather than simply reporting on performance
• Act as a trusted advisor to programme and project leads, embedding financial discipline into planning, delivery and benefits realisation
• Support transaction and investment activity where relevant, bringing structure and financial due diligence to significant commercial decisions
• Build and maintain robust financial models to support scenario planning, investment appraisal and business case development
• Challenge and influence senior stakeholders, holding them to account on financial performance and commercial decision‑making
• Identify and drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems and reporting

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified accountant, ideally with Big Four experience that has moved into FP&A, including forecasting, budgeting and business partnering at a senior level
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence and credibility to influence and challenge senior and Executive stakeholders
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to translate financial analysis into clear, forward‑looking insight
• Comfortable working with financial models, budgeting systems and reporting tools
• Prior transaction services or advisory background (Big 4 or similar)
• Continuous improvement mindset, with experience enhancing financial processes
• Transaction services experience, with M&A exposure strongly preferable