Senior Finance Business Partner

Cuckoo; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK broadband company is looking for a strategic leader to optimize financial planning and analysis processes. This remote role requires a qualified accountant with substantial experience and proficiency in tools like Power BI. You will develop financial strategies and structures to enhance business performance while managing a high-performing team. Competitive salary up to £75,000 and extensive benefits provided.

Benefits

Salary up to £75,000 dependent on experience

4x Life Assurance

Salary Sacrifice Pension

30 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays

Enhanced Family Leave

Private Healthcare

Private Dental Care

Cycle 2 Work Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Shopping Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience leading senior stakeholders through complex initiatives.
• Ownership of cross-functional projects beyond core finance responsibilities.
• Experience in risk management and improving controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a strategic plan for FP&A.
• Build and maintain pricing and customer lifetime value models.
• Lead the budget review process and monitor financial health.

Skills

Qualified practice-trained accountant (ACA)

Experience with a national top-tier firm

Proficient in Power BI

Excellent communication skills

Job description

About Us

At Cuckoo we put our customers at the heart of everything we do as we try to make their lives easier and their broadband faster. Because the truth is we want them to actually feel good about their broadband. That’s why we call it feel‑good broadband.

We’ve already topped MoneySavingExperts poll for the best customer service (twice) and are well on the way to achieving our overall aim: to become the UK’s most recommended way to connect.

So if you’re as customer‑obsessed as we are and want to help change the face of the UK’s broadband industry we’d love to hear from you.

More about this role

Note this is a remote role with occasional travel to our office in Exeter.

This strategic leadership role reports to the Cuckoo Finance Director and is central to delivering FP&A insight and financial partnering across the business. You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy plan and associated policies to optimise FP&A processes, improve data accuracy and reflect the evolving complexity of the business.

You’ll provide strategic direction to Cuckoo’s leadership team ensuring decisions are grounded in credible analysis. This includes identifying opportunities and challenges in the business model, creating and maintaining financial models and forecasts and leading the development of dashboards and analytics to inform performance.

You’ll also

• Build and maintain pricing and customer lifetime value models to support commercial decisions.
• Partner with functional teams to align reporting with business initiatives.
• Lead the budget review process and monitor financial health using key ratios and forecasting.
• Map out growth plans including capital expenditure and investment strategies.
• Engage and lead a high‑performing team to deliver reporting and strategic goals.
• Deliver ad‑hoc analysis, manage projects to improve capabilities and systems and drive continuous improvements.
• Define KPIs and champion operational excellence to mature financial controls.

You should apply if

• You are a qualified practice‑trained accountant (ACA).
• You have experience with a national top‑tier firm.
• Proven ability to lead senior stakeholders through complex initiatives securing buy‑in for operational improvements.
• Demonstrated experience in taking ownership of cross‑functional projects beyond core finance responsibilities.
• Experience with risk management and improving controls to mitigate risks.
• Experience in driving improvements across operational processes and customer experience outcomes.
• You’re proficient in Power BI and confident in communicating insights through PowerPoint and Word.

It would be great if you could also

• Demonstrated analytical skills with the ability to extract meaningful insights from data.
• Delivery capabilities supported by foundational project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present results in a structured and informed way to stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to drive business improvements and develop compelling business cases with the influence to encourage key stakeholders to implement change.

Life inside the nest

• Salary up to £75,000 dependent on experience.
• 4x Life Assurance
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• 30 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Private Healthcare
• Private Dental Care
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Shopping Discounts

Cuckoos commitment to inclusive hiring

One of our Cuckoo values is We are different. And we really mean that. We’re a diverse bunch with loads of different backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives. All this makes us strong and better as a team. So if you’ve got something different to bring to our flock – whether you’ve picked up skills in unexpected places or you approach challenges in a way that others don’t – we’d love you to apply.

Can you see yourself working with us? Apply now!

We want all candidates to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure our assessment process works for you.

Key Skills

Marketing & Sales, Business Administration, Bid, Instrumentation & Control, HACCP

Employment Type

Remote

Experience

years

Vacancy

1