Finance Business Partner – Technology
3 Month Contract
Rate: £600 - £700 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 its Technology and Product functions.

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

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across Technology, Product, FP&A and Finance, helping improve financial visibility, strengthen forecasting and ensure investment decisions are supported by robust financial analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior Technology and Product leaders, providing commercial financial insight and challenge
• Support budgeting, forecasting and rolling planning activity
• Analyse technology spend, including development, cloud, infrastructure and supplier costs
• Support investment prioritisation, resource planning and cost-benefit analysis
• Develop and review business cases, financial models and scenario analysis
• Provide financial support for transformation programmes and strategic initiatives
• Track costs, benefits, risks and financial performance
• Own and improve monthly financial and management reporting
• Clearly communicate financial performance, risks, opportunities and key cost drivers
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and return on technology investment
• Provide constructive challenge around spend and investment decisions
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders

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 and management reporting experience
• Excellent financial modelling and Excel skills
• Proven experience partnering and influencing senior non-finance stakeholders
• Experience supporting Technology, SaaS, Software, Digital or Product functions would be highly advantageous
• Experience supporting transformation, investment appraisal, cost initiatives or business cases
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrix environment with multiple senior stakeholders