Finance Business Partner – Product & Technology

Location: London/Hybrid – 2-3 days per week onsite
3 month contract

Day Rate: £550 - £700 per day inside IR35

 

We are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a large, complex organisation and work closely with senior leaders across Product and Technology.

This is a commercially focused role where you will provide financial insight, challenge and decision support across technology investment, product planning, transformation initiatives, forecasting and performance management.

You will play a key role in helping senior stakeholders understand financial performance, cost drivers, investment benefits, risks and trade-offs, while supporting effective decision-making across a complex matrix organisation.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience working within large organisations of 5,000+ employees. Previous experience within a SaaS, software, digital or technology-led environment would be highly advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior Product and Technology leaders, providing commercial financial insight, challenge and practical recommendations.
• Support product and technology planning, including investment prioritisation, roadmap decisions, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis.
• Provide financial support across transformation initiatives, including business cases, benefit tracking, cost modelling, scenario analysis and financial governance.
• Own and improve monthly performance reporting across Product and Technology.
• Clearly communicate financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers to senior stakeholders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activities, ensuring assumptions are robust, transparent and aligned with strategic priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and return on technology and product investment.
• Provide financial analysis across areas including development spend, cloud and infrastructure costs, technology suppliers and transformation programmes.
• Review and constructively challenge business cases, investment proposals and spend requests.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable commercial insight for senior non-finance stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement across finance business partnering, reporting, forecasting and planning processes.
• Build strong relationships across Finance, Product, Technology and Transformation teams.

Skills & Experience

• Qualified Accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Strong commercial finance and Finance Business Partnering experience.
• Previous experience working within a large, complex organisation, ideally with 5,000+ employees.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling.
• Proven experience partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience working within a complex or matrix-managed organisation.
• Strong experience supporting Product, Technology or other technology-led business functions.
• Experience supporting transformation initiatives, investment appraisal, business cases, cost programmes or operating model change.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance financial control, strategic investment and long-term value creation.
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling capability.
• Highly analytical with the ability to translate financial and operational information into meaningful commercial insight.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity and balancing multiple stakeholders and priorities.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience within a SaaS, software, digital or technology-enabled organisation would be particularly beneficial.