Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Job Type – Full-time, Permanent

Location – Central Support, Hemel Hempstead with some travel to parks

You’ll be tasked to deliver meaningful value across the business by becoming a trusted financial partner who turns insight into action. You’ll champion commercial thinking, challenge constructively, and empower leaders with clear, data-driven guidance that drives performance, supports smart decision-making, and enables sustainable growth.

We are a dynamic and growing company, shaking up the Great British holiday. With 27 amazing UK resorts, we pull out all the stops and add the bells and whistles to give our guests the holiday of a lifetime.

If you can match the skills, experience and qualities listed below, we’d love to hear from you:

• Lead the budgeting and reforecasting for a Park division, partnering with operational leaders to ensure assumptions are robust, owned and aligned to clear KPIs
• Deliver accurate budgets, forecasts and monthly P&L outlooks, highlighting risks and opportunities to drive performance
• Provide clear, insightful commentary on results vs Budget, Forecast and Prior Year, supporting Board reporting and senior decision-making
• Act as the key finance partner for Retail, Leisure and Entertainment, delivering analysis that drives understanding across on-park spend and margin performance
• Challenge and support stakeholders to ensure operational spend is controlled and performance is continuously improving
• Strengthen KPI benchmarking, improve reporting transparency and enhance insight through tools such as Power
  
  BI and AI
• Support robust Capex business cases and track delivery against planned benefits.
• Drive continuous improvement across budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes, increasing automation, accuracy and efficiency
• Promote strong financial control and compliance while building collaborative relationships across Operations, Commercial and Finance teams.

• We ideally want someone who is +2 year post qualified (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with a strong academic background (ideally 2:1 or equivalent)
• Experience in an analytical role within a consumer-facing business retail or leisure)
• Advanced Excel skills and experience building models in Excel and/or Power BI
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with a curious and tenacious approach to interpreting data
• Able to work independently, using initiative while seeking guidance where appropriate
• Excellent communicator, confident engaging both financial and non-financial stakeholders and adapting style to suit the audience
• Comfortable working under pressure and delivering accurate, high-quality work to tight deadlines
• Motivated, proactive self-starter with a positive and adaptable approach.

It’s the icing on the cake, but not essential if you have experience in the leisure and hospitality sector.

It’s about your values too. We have a can‑do, people-centred ethos at Away Resorts, and we look for certain qualities in our team members. Have a read about it and see if you fit the bill.

This is a chance to use and stretch your skills set and build your career in one of the fastest growing and most exciting holiday companies in the UK. Additional benefits include:

• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Family Benefit
• Employee Discount Scheme - Perkbox
• Life Insurance
• Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays
• On Park Discounts
• Awards and Recognition