Senior Finance Business Partner

Halfords Group PLC; West Midlands Combined Authority; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive retailer is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their Finance team in Redditch. This role involves providing strategic financial analysis and guidance, leading a finance team, and driving performance through insightful decision-making. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with a strong commercial finance background, excellent communication skills, and a proactive mindset. Competitive salary and hybrid working are offered.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

Employee discounts

Commitment to personal development

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Wellbeing resources and support

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment.
• Proven track record in senior commercial finance roles.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret complex data.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational financial support.
• Lead a team of finance professionals.
• Deliver annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Support investment decisions with business cases.

Skills

Financial analysis

Communication

Leadership

Problem-solving

Adaptability

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)

Job description

Overview

Senior Finance Business Partner

Job no: 556947

Work type: Full time

Site: Redditch

Categories: Finance

Location: West Midlands, Worcestershire

Salary: Competitive

Business Area: Halfords Support Centre

About us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience-from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you're willing to get stuck in, you'll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic Finance team. In this high-impact role, you'll work closely with senior leaders across the business to provide insightful financial analysis and strategic guidance that drives performance and supports key decision-making.

You'll act as a trusted advisor, using your financial expertise to support new initiatives, enable continuous improvement, and influence strategic planning. With a strong focus on business partnering, you'll play a pivotal role in helping teams across the organisation understand financial implications and unlock value.

As the business evolves in response to changing market conditions and customer needs, your work will be central to delivering commercial success and ensuring we make informed, future-focused decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted Senior Finance Business Partner to key senior stakeholders, providing strategic and operational financial support.
• Deliver first-class business partnering across various functions, building strong relationships and influencing decision-making at all levels.
• Lead and develop a small team of finance professionals, including prioritising workload, setting aligned objectives, and supporting their ongoing growth and performance.
• Take ownership of controllable cost management across relevant business areas, ensuring accurate month-end reporting, strong financial governance, and effective cost control.
• Lead the planning and delivery of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with wider business strategies.
• Monitor business performance through regular KPI reviews, providing actionable insights and highlighting areas for improvement.
• Conduct rigorous financial evaluations of trials, tests, and business initiatives, using both financial and non-financial metrics to deliver clear recommendations.
• Support investment decisions through the preparation of business cases and appraisals and ensure effective tracking of capital and operational expenditure for key strategic initiatives.

About you

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
• Experience in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment-ideally within a relevant or transferable sector.
• Demonstrated success in a senior commercial finance or business partnering role, with a strong track record of delivering impact and driving performance.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence and credibility to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, results-oriented mindset with strong resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex and high-volume data to deliver meaningful insight and support decision-making.
• Experience in leading and developing high-performing teams is desirable, with a passion for mentoring others and fostering growth within the team.

Reward & benefits

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• We offer hybrid working in our Support Centre, you will be based at our Support Centre 3 days a week with an optional 2 days working from home.
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

Hybrid working

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days per week on-site at our Support Centre in Redditch Worcestershire.

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