Senior Finance Business Partner
Location: Remote (with 1 day per month in the Northwest office)
Travel: 1-2 days per month to UK offices
Salary: £65,000 - £85,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract: 6-12 month fixed-term contract
The opportunity
This is a superb opportunity for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join a well established Financial Services business at an exciting point in its journey. The role offers genuine progression, creative freedom and exposure across all levels of the organisation, working on a wide range of interesting and high-impact projects.
You’ll play a critical role in supporting commercial decision-making, shaping financial insight and helping drive both organic growth and acquisition integration. This is a varied and visible role, ideal for someone who enjoys operating across strategy and detail in a complex, evolving environment.
The role
Reporting into the central finance function, you will partner closely with the Commercial Director and senior management teams to deliver high-quality financial insight, robust forecasting and meaningful performance analysis.
Given the pace of growth and ongoing acquisition activity, the role requires someone comfortable navigating complexity - moving seamlessly from strategic thinking to granular P&L analysis, budgeting and forecasting.
Key responsibilities *
Financial business partnering across multiple integrated and non-integrated businesses
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Ownership of annual budgets and quarterly forecasting cycles
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Supporting business acquisition integrations and post-acquisition reporting
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Managing, developing and improving central FP&A Excel models
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Supporting full P&L reviews and reporting to the Executive Board, private equity stakeholders and financial partners
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Producing month-end reporting packs, presentations and insight
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Acting as a key link between Management Accounting and FP&A
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Supporting and improving the use of business systems, including Power BI
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Driving consistency and standardisation of reporting, performance analysis, budgeting and forecasting
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Supporting data cleanse and data quality improvement initiatives
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Implementing and maintaining robust processes and controls
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Delivering ad-hoc commercial analysis and project support
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Building strong, collaborative relationships across Commercial, Operations, Marketing, IT and other functions
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Identifying and implementing improved ways of working to enhance efficiency, quality and timeliness
About you
You’ll be a commercially minded finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and enjoys variety in your work. You’ll be confident engaging senior stakeholders, comfortable challenging constructively, and motivated by delivering high-quality outcomes.
You will:
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Be naturally analytical, inquisitive and commercially focused
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Have excellent Excel skills
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Be a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership
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Be confident influencing and challenging stakeholders
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Enjoy working both independently and collaboratively
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Be comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels
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Have excellent communication skills, particularly in a largely remote setting
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Be resilient, flexible and tenacious
Essential requirement *
Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA)