Finance Business Partner

Isio is expanding its commercial finance capability, building out the Finance Business Partnering and FP&A teams that support the Group. This role carries two halves: commercial partnering to our Employee Benefits business unit, and ownership of the financial relationship with the Central Functions that support the whole Group.

Employee Benefits is a key strategic growth area within the Group's diversification plan, and this role sits at the centre of how that growth is planned, priced and measured. Alongside it, you will partner central department heads on their cost base and take the financial lead on the Group's investment in technology and change, including the capital and non-recurring spend behind our platform programmes.

It is a broad and unusually commercial brief, suited to someone who wants to shape decisions rather than report on them, with genuine Executive exposure in a private equity backed business.

• Act as the finance partner to the Employee Benefits leadership team, building credible, trusted and challenging relationships.
• Own near-term business performance, supporting delivery of growth and profitability objectives.
• Own business unit budgets and forecasts, built on genuine drivers and agreed with the business.
• Lead the monthly business unit review: set the agenda, own the numbers, drive the actions and follow them through.
• Lead KPI reporting, analysis and performance insight, including fee income, utilisation, recovery and margin.
• Support pricing, rate card application, discounting governance, bid activity and margin improvement.
• Work with the Chief Growth Officer and business unit leadership on sales pipeline reporting and its conversion into forecast revenue.

• Partner central department heads to own and understand their cost base against budget, and to plan credibly for the year ahead.
• Own the budgeting, forecasting and reporting of central costs, including headcount, and drive the disciplines that keep them on track.
• Take the financial lead on IT and change investment: own the inputs and outputs of capital and non-recurring spend on the Group's platform programmes.
• Build and challenge business cases for investment and change, then track realised benefit against what was approved.
• Support spend governance and approval processes, including purchase order discipline and budget adherence.
• Provide clear analysis on cost allocation and cost-to-serve across the Group.

• Deliver succinct, accurate and timely reporting on your areas into Board and Executive level packs.
• Use and develop Power BI reporting for your business units and central cost base, contributing to the quality of the underlying data.
• Apply Group reporting standards and definitions consistently, so that your numbers hold up wherever they are used.
• Contribute to Group-wide improvements in reporting, automation and best practice.

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with meaningful post-qualified experience in commercial finance, FP&A or business partnering.
• Demonstrable ownership of a budget and forecast cycle, covering both revenue-generating and overhead areas.
• Track record of partnering senior non-financial stakeholders directly, including challenge on cost.
• Experience of technology or change investment appraisal is strongly preferred, including capital and non-recurring spend and benefit tracking.
• Professional services or consulting economics (utilisation, rate realisation, recovery, WIP and lock-up) is an advantage.
• Experience in a private equity backed or fast-growing business is…