Finance Business Partner
Location: London – hybrid (minimum 2 days per week office-based)
Salary:£65-£70K plus extensive benefits package
Sector:Charity / Non-profit
This role leads the commercial finance agenda partnering with senior stakeholders to strengthen costing, modelling, forecasting, reporting, and systems improvement, with a strong focus on bid support, margin and cashflow optimisation, and high-quality reporting.


Key Requirements
Essential
*Proven business partnering with non-finance stakeholders
*Qualified accountant
*Strong track record of systems and process improvement
*Advanced Excel and confident handling large datasets and reporting outputs
*Experience in financial modelling and supporting bids/tenders
*Clear communicator able to translate finance into practical decisions
Desirable
*Experience in charity and/or non-profit environments
*Exposure to Sage or similar reporting tools/dashboards
*Experience supporting regional/national service delivery models


Role & Responsibilities
*Lead commercial finance support across project and income generation activity
*Provide insight on profitability, cost recovery and cashflow, highlighting risks and actions
*Partner with Business Development and Fundraising on financial bid inputs, from creation to submission
*Own and improve the project costing model, ensuring governance and timely sign-off
*Deliver bespoke modelling for complex commissioning requirements, including cost impact of required change
*Produce monthly project reporting, analyse variances, and support budget holders to manage performance
*Lead forecasting to end-of-contract and consolidate into the rolling organisational forecast
*Improve ledger integrity for projects, including journals/adjustments where required
*Deliver accurate commissioner and donor reporting to deadlines, escalating issues early
*Support systems improvements (self-serve reporting, dashboards, coding accuracy)
*Complete financial due diligence as needed