Finance Business Partner

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe? If so, read on — we're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Controlling team and become a trusted financial partner to one of our key business areas.

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK’s leading out-of-home business. With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and the launch of our transformative Send service, we’re bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we’re building an unparalleled group of talent that’s committed to help us power our mission to reshape the way parcels move, and redefine eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain. We’re a passionate bunch with high ambition – we collaborate, innovate, support each other, and leave egos at the door.

This is a commercially focused finance role within the Controlling function. The Finance Business Partner is embedded in a specific area of the UK&I business — which may be Network, Commercial, Pricing, Operations, Newstrade or another function depending on team structure — acting as the primary Finance presence for that area. The role is equally outward-facing and inward-facing: outward to the business leaders and budget holders who rely on clear financial insight to make better decisions, and inward to the Financial Accounting team whose ledger outputs underpin everything the FBP produces.

It is a role for someone who is commercially curious, analytically rigorous and confident enough to challenge as well as support.

• Act as the primary Finance contact for your assigned business area — building a close, trusted relationship with the relevant Director, Head of Function and their leadership team, and positioning Finance as an indispensable partner to how decisions are made in that part of the business.
• Attend leadership and management meetings for your business area — contributing financial perspective in real time, providing challenge where assumptions are stretched or risks are under weighted, and ensuring commercial decisions are made with a clear understanding of their financial consequences.
• Develop a genuine understanding of the commercial and operational drivers of your business area — going beyond the numbers to understand how the business works, what matters to the people you partner, and what the financial data is really telling them.
• Act as a proactive financial adviser rather than a reactive reporter — identifying financial risks and opportunities within your area before they surface in the management accounts, and bringing them to the attention of your business partners and the relevant Head of Finance with clear analysis and recommended actions.
• Support your business area in building financial literacy and cost accountability — helping non-finance leaders understand their numbers, take ownership of variances, and manage their P&L with confidence rather than relying on Finance to interpret everything for them.

• Own the production of the monthly financial reporting pack for your assigned business area — ensuring actuals are accurate, variance commentary is insightful and the output gives business leaders a clear, timely picture of performance against plan.
• Write variance commentary that explains rather than describes — going beyond identifying that a number has moved to understanding why it has moved, what it means for the full-year position and what action is or should be…