Finance Business Partner

Location: Gatwick, GB

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum dependent upon experience

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Security Level: SC

Base

Location:

Gatwick – 2 days per week office attendance (to manage existing team)

Visa Restrictions: This position does not offer visa sponsorship

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

The Financial Business Partner will be responsible for supporting business areas through robust and data‑led insights and variance analysis.

The role-holder is expected to provide advice to managers of the relevant area in relation to their respective P&Ls, including forecasting and budgeting processes. The job holder will have the freedom to determine how best to deliver against these responsibilities, within the frameworks and policies adopted by the CAA.

• Month End processing and data‑led variance analysis and insight and liaison with Senior Leadership teams & Business Development Managers
• Ensuring timely and accurate data is made available to support business decisions, enforce accountability and provide appropriate challenge
• Direct support to ‘Strategic Finance Business Partner’ highlighting financial risks and opportunities.
• Production of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and monthly ‘live’ forecasts and supporting Group consolidation
• Work closely with Strategic People Partners to support resource forecasting and costing.

Providing a Finance Business Partner function:

• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with budget holders and senior managers
• Scenario planning to assess impact of different strategic options
• Challenge and validate business assumptions to support well‑informed, evidence‑based decision making
• Interpreting and communicating trends in order to influence decision making
• Providing financial analysis and business insight to interpret data, provide conclusions and make recommendations
• Interpreting and communicating trends in order to influence decision making and highlighting risks and opportunities for efficiencies
• Work with wider finance team to create and provide insightful management information backed by meaningful analysis
• Improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance by coaching and developing the financial awareness of non‑finance managers
• Tracking, monitoring, and consolidating individual project costs, forecasts, and budgets
• Creation of month end reports for distribution to budget holders and senior leaders
• Production of Annual budgets (for their respective areas), guiding budget holders and senior leaders to achieve target budgets and align to CAA strategic objectives
• Organising and attending regular finance catch‑up and review meeting with budget holders and senior leaders
• Liaising with external stakeholders mainly the CAA’s UK auditors and the DfT (where required)
• Develop, maintain, and improve financial reporting to enhance user experience and financial controls

• The post holder will be a qualified accountant with a proven track record in a dynamic commercial environment, producing insights and influencing the behaviour of non‑financial managers.
• The ideal person will have a broad range of experience of active finance business partnering and strong analysis and data modelling skills.
• They will have a confident and approachable manner with an extensive level of financial modelling, computer literacy and business acumen with an ability to influence senior leaders and assist non‑financial managers to understand performance and take appropriate business decisions and actions.
• The primary finance / accounting SAP based system must be utilised for most accounting core activities; however, other systems will be utilised (Success Factors) and a high level of competence in excel is required to analyse data in order to maintain and develop forecasting and reporting models especially in relation to resource and project forecasting.
• Ideally expertise…