Finance Business Partner
3 Month Contract
Rate: £500 - £600 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: London (onsite 2/3 days a week)

We’re looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a large, complex organisation and partner with senior leaders across Customer & Services.

This is a commercially focused finance role providing financial insight, challenge and decision support across performance, transformation, investment and planning.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, FP&A and Finance, helping improve financial visibility, strengthen forecasting and support commercially sound decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to provide commercial financial insight and challenge
• Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activity
• Provide financial support for transformation and operational improvement initiatives
• Develop and review business cases, financial models and scenario analysis
• Support investment prioritisation, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis
• Own and improve monthly performance reporting
• Clearly explain financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and commercial performance
• Challenge spend requests and business cases constructively
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Support continuous improvement across finance business partnering, reporting and planning processes

Skills and experience

• Qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Strong Finance Business Partnering / Commercial Finance experience
• Experience working within a large, complex organisation, ideally 5,000+ employees
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling experience
• Proven experience partnering and influencing senior non-finance stakeholders
• Experience within SaaS, software, digital, technology-enabled or service-led businesses would be advantageous
• Experience supporting transformation, investment appraisal, benefit tracking, cost initiatives or operating model change
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability
• Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrix environment with multiple senior stakeholders