Finance Business Partner

We are pleased to be exclusively partnering with a growing, multi-site organisation as they look to appoint a Finance Business Partner to join their FP&A team.

This is a commercially focused role offering the opportunity to partner with a range of central functions, providing financial insight and challenge across operating expenditure, capital investment, headcount planning and business performance.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across Property, HR, Learning & Development and operational support teams, you will play a key role in budgeting, forecasting and financial planning, helping to drive informed decision‑making and improve financial performance across the business.

• Own and maintain the central headcount model, ensuring it remains the single source of truth and is reconciled to payroll each month.
• Monitor headcount movements against budget, identifying variances, unplanned hires and associated cost impacts.
• Produce accurate headcount reporting to support forecasting, budgeting and business planning.
• Track, analyse and challenge central operating expenditure, providing clear insight into financial performance and key variance drivers.
• Partner with budget holders to review spend, challenge costs where appropriate and identify opportunities for efficiencies.
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process with robust assumptions and financial analysis.
• Manage financial tracking of the capital expenditure programme, monitoring projects from approval through to completion.
• Produce business cases and financial evaluations to support investment decisions across property, equipment and technology projects.
• Partner with Property and Facilities teams to analyse estate costs, maintenance spend, utilities and lease‑related expenditure.
• Provide financial reporting and analysis for internal operational services, monitoring revenue, costs and profitability while identifying opportunities to improve performance.
• Support the financial evaluation of strategic investment initiatives and monitor post‑investment performance.
• Provide finance support to HR and Learning & Development, tracking training expenditure and modelling the financial impact of people‑related initiatives.
• Deliver return on investment analysis for significant training and development programmes where appropriate.

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or part‑qualified.
• Previous experience within FP&A, Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance.
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling.
• Confident business partnering with both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Experience analysing operating expenditure, headcount or capital investment would be highly advantageous.
• Strong Excel skills with the ability to manipulate and interpret large volumes of financial data.
• Excellent analytical skills with the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience with in a multi‑site or complex organisation would be beneficial but is not essential.

• up to £70,000 base salary.
• Exposure to a commercially focused FP&A environment with genuine business partnering opportunities.
• The opportunity to influence key business decisions and strategic investment.
• Excellent career development and progression within a growing finance function.

We would love to hear from you if you're looking for a commercially focused finance opportunity where you can make a real impact. Apply now for further information.