Finance Business Partner

Colwick Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this Finance Business Partner role, you’ll deliver financial insight and challenge to drive commercial decision-making within Operations. You’ll partner with stakeholders to improve efficiency, control costs, and support growth, while automating finance processes to free up time for value-added analysis. You’ll work with data to provide actionable insight, build relationships, and influence outcomes across the business. This is a hands-on role with visibility that blends traditional FP&A with continuous improvement and data-led finance.

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships with Operations stakeholders to understand challenges, priorities and opportunities.
Provide financial insight, guidance and constructive challenge for informed decision-making.
Support leaders in delivering against financial and operational targets.
Analyse financial and operational performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
Present results and insights clearly to finance and non-finance audiences.
Support budgeting, forecasting, planning and performance analysis.
Analyse large datasets to uncover meaningful trends for the business.
Develop and maintain dashboards/reports using Power BI and Tableau where appropriate.
Improve accessibility and understanding of financial information to enable data-led decisions.
Support month-end close activities and maintain strong financial controls and governance.
Support SOX compliance and assist with audits.
Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, improve processes and reduce risk.
Identify and deliver automation for manual reporting and analysis processes.
Leverage technology to increase efficiency and reduce non-value-added activities.
Champion continuous improvement and cross-functional initiatives.

Key requirements

Part-qualified accountant status (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
Significant experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A or Commercial Finance.
Strong analytical skills with ability to translate complex data into actionable insight.
Advanced Excel and experience with large datasets.
Excellent communication and presentation abilities for non-finance audiences.
Confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders constructively.
Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how finance supports business performance.
Experience identifying and delivering process improvements and automation opportunities.