Finance Partner

Overview

As Strategic Finance Partner you will act as the trusted finance lead for senior operational and central leaders, delivering strategic financial insight and constructive challenge to drive performance. You’ll influence strategic conversations, support funding discussions, and help leaders navigate financial challenges within a large, multi-site charity. The role blends technical finance with relationship management to sustain essential services across the UK. You will work remotely with occasional travel, shaping decisions that support communities nationwide.

Pay / Benefits

• fully remote working with occasional travel
• opportunity to influence strategy at senior level
• values-driven organisation
• flexible working arrangement
• career development in a national charity

Responsibilities

• Partner with Operational and Central Directors as a trusted adviser
• Provide financial insight, challenge, and assurance to support decisions
• Identify emerging risks and opportunities and enable proactive action
• Lead finance input into commissioner and contract funding discussions
• Develop financial models, bids, tenders, and business cases
• Collaborate with operational teams to improve financial understanding
• Provide coaching and finance training to non-finance stakeholders
• Support resolution of funding, invoicing, and income recovery issues
• Coordinate with FP&A, Financial Control and Shared Services for robust financial management

Key requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) or finalist nearing qualification
• Experience in a large and complex organisation
• Strong ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders
• Natural problem solver with practical solution focus
• Commercially aware and able to challenge constructively
• Experience in developing financial models or supporting bids and tenders
• Strong ability to translate financial data into clear insights for non-financial audiences
• Motivated by delivering high-quality financial leadership to enable mission-critical services

• strong interpersonal skills
• excellent communication
• influencing and relationship-building
• financial modelling
• business case development
• bids and tenders support

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