Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Details:
Senior Finance Business Partner

Base Glasgow

We are recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner at our Glasgow Head Office.

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders, providing clear, pragmatic, and value adding financial advice.
• Develop and maintain robust financial models to support business cases, investment decisions, and strategic initiatives.
• Support month‑end close activities, ensuring accurate, timely financial information and insightful analysis of performance.
• Challenge and influence stakeholders through strong financial insight, scenario analysis, and clear articulation of risks and opportunities.
• Work effectively to reach tight and often competing deadlines, maintaining high standards of accuracy and delivery.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance financial controls, efficiency, and the quality of financial insight.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and performance management activities, linking financial outcomes to operational drivers.
• Develop targets and benchmarking processes to challenge the business stakeholders.
• Apply project management skills to lead and support key commercial and strategic initiatives, ensuring clear goals, milestones and financial tracking are in place.
• Provide ad‑hoc analysis and decision support as required.
• Ensure issues and solutions are identified promptly, communicated to the appropriate level and resolution monitored.
• Represent finance in any departmental management meetings and for any projects being carried out across the business.
• Present at meetings as and when required.
• Assist with special finance projects in support of key corporate initiatives as defined by the board.
• Any other reasonable duties as required by the finance department.

• Airline experience desirable but not essential. Alternatively, travel/capital intensive industry experience desirable.
• Strong experience in a finance business partnering or commercial finance role.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Professionally qualified accountant (ICAS, ACCA, CIMA) with relevant PQE gained in a similar environment desirable.
• Minimum PQE 3‑5 years.
• Comfortable working on an integrated accounting package together with an excellent knowledge of core office systems – Excel, Word & PowerPoint.
• Experience working for multiple stakeholders in a fast‑paced commercial environment.
• Experience of building and maintaining large complex modelling that has demonstrably led to high quality decision making.

• Advanced financial modelling and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of month‑end processes and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience delivering improvements to finance processes and ways of working.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insight.
• Resilient and organised, with the ability to perform effectively under pressure and to challenging deadlines.

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