Senior Finance Business Partner (Projects)

JR United Kingdom; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner in Northampton to provide financial expertise on high-value infrastructure projects. The role involves strategic financial insight, stakeholder engagement, and robust financial modeling to support capital investment decisions, ensuring long-term business objectives alignment. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in finance business partnering, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence key stakeholders within a fast paced environment.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years PQE and relevant working experience.
• Experience with large-scale capital or infrastructure projects.
• Excellent communication skills, able to distill complex data.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance partner for major investment projects.
• Develop business cases for investments, ensuring financial evaluation.
• Monitor financial performance of projects against budgets.

Skills

Financial Modeling

Stakeholder Management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Analytical Skills

Strategic Thinking

Education

4 years PQE

Finance Business Partnering Experience

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

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Client:

Cadillac Formula 1 Team

Location:

northampton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

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Job Description:

Description

The Senior Finance Business Partner role plays a trusted advisory role providing financial expertise and strategic insight on high-value infrastructure projects over the next 12 months. This role partners with senior stakeholders to drive capital investment decisions and ensure alignment with long-term business objectives. The ideal candidate will bring strong financial modelling skills, excellent stakeholder management, and a strong understanding of capital project governance within a complex, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

· Act as the lead finance partner for major investment projects, providing strategic financial insight and challenge throughout the project lifecycle.

· Develop, review, and advise on business cases for investments, ensuring robust financial evaluation and alignment with business strategy.

· Own and deliver high-quality financial models, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis to support decision-making.

· Monitor financial performance of investment projects against approved budgets, highlighting risks, variances, and opportunities for value creation.

· Collaborate with project managers, commercial teams, procurement, and other functions to ensure financial controls, governance, and reporting are in place and adhered to.

· Lead the preparation of investment papers and present recommendations to senior leadership, investment boards, and executive committees.

· Provide clear, insightful commentary and analysis on capital spend, ROI, NPV/IRR, and key performance metrics.

· Support post-investment reviews to assess benefits realisation, return on investment, and lessons learned.

· Champion financial discipline, value for money, and commercial thinking across the project teams.

· Ensure quality of data within finance systems including developing controls where necessary.

Required Skills:

· At least 4 years PQE and relevant working experience

· Proven experience in a finance business partnering role, preferably with a focus on large-scale capital or infrastructure projects.

· Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical skills.

· Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a trusted advisor.

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to distil complex financial data into clear business insight.

· Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.

· Experience in sectors such as infrastructure, utilities, real estate, engineering, construction, or public sector capital programmes.

· Familiarity with investment appraisal techniques including IRR, NPV, payback period.

· Understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, PMO environment).

· Analytical mindset with a focus on detail, accuracy, and actionable insights

· Able to provide examples where the status quo has been challenged and the positive impact or outcome on the business in a manufacturing/engineering environment

· Able to demonstrate examples of leading on cost reduction initiatives and their success

· Willingness to use latest business intelligence tools (e.g. Microsoft Power BI) to interrogate data, problem solve and provide and provide recommendations

· Tenacious, reliable and flexible attitude to work