Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Description:

Senior Finance Business Partner

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to work closely with senior leaders, providing high-quality financial insight, challenge and support. This is a transformational role, focused on improving the way overheads are planned, reported and allocated across the organisation. You will operate in a complex environment, translating high-level requirements into clear, deliverable financial solutions that drive transparency, control and informed decision-making.


Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end management, reporting and planning of group overhead costs, ensuring all deadlines are met with a high level of accuracy and consistency.
• Transform overhead reporting to improve transparency and usability for senior stakeholders.
• Redesign the budgeting and forecasting approach for overheads, streamlining processes and removing inefficiencies.
• Develop and implement an enhanced cost allocation model, clearly distinguishing between direct and indirect costs and enabling monthly reporting by function and business unit.
• Partner with finance transformation teams to standardise structures, data and reporting across the wider organisation.
• Work closely with senior functional leaders to produce high-quality budget and forecast packs, providing insight and challenge where required.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial data, supporting and developing team members and key stakeholders.
• Deliver complex financial information in a clear, concise manner to senior audiences, supporting effective decision-making.
• Develop solutions to improve cost tracking and reporting within financial systems.

Key Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.
• Proven experience partnering with senior leaders and executive-level stakeholders.
• Strong background in budgeting, forecasting and management reporting across a full annual cycle.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, improve processes and deliver transformation in a complex finance environment.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex financial issues simply and clearly.
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Strong data analysis and presentation skills, with experience developing others.
• Experience working with enterprise finance systems is advantageous.

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