Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a critical role in providing financial insights, cost analysis, and strategic support to senior stakeholders. This role will enable teams to deliver against their targets and drive business performance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Business Partnering: Collaborate with key stakeholders across departments to provide financial insights and support decision-making.
  • Cost Analysis & Control: Monitor, analyse, and challenge cost variances, ensuring alignment with budgets and forecasts across departments and products.
  • Revenue Optimization: Work closely with commercial teams to identify opportunities for margin improvement, pricing strategies, and revenue growth.
  • Financial Planning & Forecasting: Support the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy and identifying efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities.
  • Performance Reporting: Prepare and present financial reports to senior stakeholders, providing meaningful analysis on cost trends, operational efficiencies, and business performance using key financial and non-financial metrics.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with non-finance stakeholders to ensure financial performance is understood.
  • Process Improvement: Drive efficiency and cost optimization initiatives across the business.
  • Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to accounting policies, controls, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

You have:

  • A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with at least 2 years post-qualification experience (PQE).
  • Proven experience in finance, FP&A, or business partnering roles within a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong financial modeling, cost accounting, and data analysis skills.
  • Ability to interpret financial and non-financial data and provide strategic insights.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills to engage with senior management and non-finance stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in Excel (financial modeling, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis) and ERP systems (e.g., Business Central, SAP, Oracle, or similar).
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Bonus 
  • Life Assurance cover.
  • Enhanced company sick pay.
  • Single-cover private medical scheme (option to add family members at own cost).
  • 33 days paid annual leave.
  • Ability to purchase up to 10 additional days of holiday per year.
  • Additional paid leave for major life events 

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Finance Business Partner

Permanent
13 March 2025
Accounting & Finance
Commercial Finance Business Partner
Manchester
Circa £50K

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