Finance Business Partner

In 2025, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the sixth year running.

Role: Finance Business Partner

Location: Bolton (hybrid working 2 days in the office)

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Please note: UK applicants only | No sponsorship available

We're looking for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to join our growing Finance team.

This is a highly visible role where you'll work closely with senior operational leaders, providing financial planning, analysis and insight that supports strategic decision-making and drives business performance. You'll play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, reporting and financial business partnering across a complex multi-site organisation.

We're looking for someone who can confidently challenge and influence stakeholders, translate financial data into meaningful commercial insight and help shape better business decisions.

• Highly visible role with exposure to senior leadership
• Opportunity to influence commercial and operational decision-making
• Hybrid working environment
• Growing and collaborative Finance function
• Great Place to Work certified for six consecutive years
• Genuine opportunity to make an impact within a national organisation

• Lead monthly financial reporting and performance analysis for operational divisions, delivering clear and insightful reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Analyse actual performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying key variances, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Produce and present financial reports, KPI dashboards and scorecards that support informed decision-making.
• Deliver meaningful financial insight, helping stakeholders understand performance and improve results.
• Manage and resolve month-end financial queries, ensuring operational teams receive timely support.
• Work closely with Finance and Business Intelligence teams to enhance reporting through automation, systems improvements and process efficiencies.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting activities for designated business areas, ensuring delivery against agreed timelines.
• Develop, maintain and improve financial models that support planning, forecasting and performance management.
• Support wider budgeting and forecasting processes across the organisation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of reporting, forecasting and planning tools.
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to operational leaders and departmental stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across the business, providing challenge, support and commercial guidance where needed.
• Influence decision-making through clear financial analysis and effective communication.
• Improve financial understanding across operational teams through coaching, guidance and support.

You'll be a proactive finance professional who enjoys working closely with stakeholders and using data to influence business performance.

You'll have:

• Finalist or qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics or a related discipline, or an AAT qualification.
• Previous experience within FP&A, Management Accounting, Commercial Finance or Finance Business Partnering.
• Strong experience of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling, analysis and data manipulation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial information for non-finance stakeholders.
• The confidence to challenge, influence and support senior stakeholders.
• Experience producing high-quality reports and presentations for leadership teams.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Experience with Power BI, reporting tools or ERP systems…