Finance Business Partner

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

As a Sector Finance Business Partner at Baringa, you will operate as a trusted commercial advisor to sector and business unit leadership teams. You will take a true seat at the leadership table, bringing the financial insight, challenge and commercial judgement needed to help sectors execute their strategy and deliver sustainable, high-margin profitable growth.

You will translate financial performance, project economics, demand, pricing, utilisation, cost and margin data into clear, action-oriented insight. The expectation is that you help leadership teams understand what is really driving performance, where value is being created or lost, and what action is needed to improve outcomes.

A core part of the role is building commercial capability in the sector. You will coach partners, project partners and project managers to manage work with stronger commercial rigour through D365, including project set-up, time discipline, revenue recognition, WIP, invoicing, debt, cash collection, pricing and margin management.

You will work closely with FP&A, Data & Insights, Finance Operations, Staffing & Utilisation, People, Legal and Sector Business Managers to provide joined-up commercial support. The role requires someone who can balance senior-level strategic conversations with the detailed operational grip needed to turn insight into action.

• Act as the visible face of Finance for the sector, building trusted relationships with sector leadership, BU leads, partners, project partners and project managers.
• Take an active seat in sector leadership conversations, using financial insight and commercial judgement to challenge performance, shape decisions and support execution of the sector strategy.
• Turn financial and operational data into clear, actionable insight; connecting revenue, demand, utilisation, pricing, cost, margin, debt and cash performance to the strategic choices facing the sector.
• Support high-margin profitable growth by identifying performance and operational risks, margin leakage, pricing opportunities, delivery inefficiencies and areas where leadership action is needed.
• Lead sector and BU performance reviews, including client, account and project-level deep dives into margin, bill rates, team shape, utilisation, fixed price delivery, WIP and cash collection.
• Coach sector teams on commercial rigour through D365, helping them manage the full project lifecycle effectively from opportunity and project set-up through time recording, revenue recognition, invoicing, cash collection and project closure.
• Use D365 and Power BI reporting to…