Senior Finance Business Partner - Mainstay

FirstPort; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property management company is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner in Luton. This role involves building partnerships, managing financial results, and providing strategic financial insights. Ideal candidates will have strong finance qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), excel in stakeholder management, and possess advanced Excel skills.

Qualifications

• Commercially orientated qualified Finance individual (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Highly motivated with ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional business partnering service to operational managers.
• Own division level corporate financial results and processes.
• Drive change in behaviour of budget holders and support business growth.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Strong customer focus

Organizational skills

Team player

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

Tools

Adaptive Insight

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Senior Finance Business Partner - Mainstay, Luton

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Client:

FirstPort

Location:

Luton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job Role: Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Hybrid, London - Will be required to travel to New Milton, Worcester and Luton occasionally.

Hours: 35 per week, Monday to Friday

As the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will contribute to our vision of being the UKs favourite property manager by:

• Providing an exceptional business partnering service to operational managers, assisting budget holders to exceed their deliverables and take corrective measures where appropriate.
• Owning division level corporate financial results and processes and support the finance director in understanding the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Ensuring that financial risks are managed and emerging variances to budgets can be anticipated and mitigated through timely action.
• Delivering on AVIVA key performance indicators, reporting and audit requirements.

This role reports to the Director of Finance – Mainstay. There is up to 2 direct reports in this role.

Main Responsibilities

• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with senior managers and their teams with regards to the 5 business units in the Mainstay Division.
• Drive change in behaviour of budget holders, support product launches and support business growth.
• Establish regular Performance Review process with Operation managers and their teams, understanding performance and driving management action.
• Act as the bridge between strategic and delivery teams to ensure group objectives and plans are achieved.
• Providing input to Group FP&A for budget, forecasting and reporting on all volume/margin topics.
• Providing analysis and insight that links financial reports to business strategies.
• Embed financial controls and control processes.
• Ad-hoc analysis and reporting including business modelling.
• Implement and embed benchmarking to assist with performance assessment.
• Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvement programs.
• Manage and maintain AVIVA reporting and audit requirements.
• Provide coaching and training to direct report.
• Deputise for the Director of Finance where appropriate.

Skills and Experience

• A commercially orientated qualified Finance individual (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Highly motivated and pro-active self-starter who has demonstrable ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong customer focus with excellent organisation skills.
• Team player and able to lead by example.
• Intermediate to advance Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience of using Adaptive Insight preferable.

Diversity

We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will consider applications from job share applicants.

Ready to Apply?

Click the below apply button to start your application for this role. We will ask you to upload your CV and answer a few questions. You may also be asked to complete verbal and numerical reasoning tests online.

If you meet the criteria for the role, we’ll be in touch to arrange a short telephone interview and our shortlist of candidates will be invited to attend interviews with the hiring manager and up to three other key stakeholders.