Senior Finance Business Partner

ISS FACILITY SERVICES LIMITED; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facility management company in Weybridge seeks a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead financial management on key contracts. This role involves providing oversight to a finance team, ensuring compliance, and driving performance. Applicants should have commercial qualifications and experience in client-facing roles. The position offers a permanent contract with the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment focused on inclusivity and personal growth.

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership capabilities.
• Experience with NEC3/4 contract desirable.
• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial finance team, ensuring robust controls.
• Develop relationships with client representatives to drive performance.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and budgeting.
• Identify key risks and opportunities across accounts.

Skills

Commercially qualified accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA)

Commercial/financial experience in a commercial services contract environment

Prior client-facing experience

Strong communication skills

Excellent organisational skills

Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner

Contract: Government, Healthcare & Education (Finance)

Location: Weybridge, KT13 0SL

Hours of work: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

This role is INTERNAL ONLY and at present we are not accepting external applications. If you are external and apply, your application will not be considered at this time.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to lead the financial management of a major contract within our Government, Healthcare & Infrastructure (GH&I) business.

This role is pivotal in delivering complete commercial oversight, ensuring maximum value creation for the client while minimising risk exposure for ISS.

You will manage a finance business partner directly and oversee four financial accountants indirectly, driving robust financial governance and performance across the contract.

You will act as a financial expert for complex contracts, providing a framework to measure and guide performance, ensuring compliance with ISS corporate policies and safeguarding the company's reputation.

This position requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to build proactive relationships with client representatives and internal stakeholders to optimise contract outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the commercial finance team, ensuring robust controls and consistent processes across the business area.
• Develop and maintain professional, proactive relationships with client representatives and internal teams to drive performance.
• Provide financial support to senior managers and their teams, influencing commercial decision‑making.
• Ensure timely and accurate forecasting, month‑end reporting, and management of the budget planning process.
• Identify and mitigate key risks while maximising opportunities across the account portfolio.
• Manage, develop, and motivate the finance team, implementing actions to improve financial performance.
• Drive growth and maintain commercial control of project delivery processes, including supplier selection and scope change sign‑off.
• Oversee billing, cash collection, and balance sheet management for the portfolio.
• Collaborate with Procurement and account teams to optimise supplier agreements and governance.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Commercially qualified accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA).
• Commercial/financial experience in a commercial services contract environment (experience of NEC3/4 desirable).
• Prior client‑facing experience is essential.
• Professional, committed, conscientious, proactive, and innovative.
• Positive attitude to change and ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Strong communicator, confident engaging with clients, operations, suppliers, and team members.
• Highly numerate, accurate, and able to work on your own initiative.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.

The Company

ISS is a world‑leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it's hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [e-mail].>

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