Finance Business Partner – People (9-12 month FTC)

Finance Business Partner – People (9-12 month FTC)

Job no: 566839
Work type: Full time
Site: Redditch
Categories: Finance
Location: Worcestershire
Salary: Competitive
Business Area: Halfords Support Centre

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

As a Finance Business Partner for our People function, you'll take on a varied and genuinely autonomous role covering both business partnering and management accounting across a cost base of around £20 million. You'll work closely with multiple senior stakeholders at Head of and Director level within the People team, helping them understand what they've spent, what's left, and what the data means for the decisions they're making.

Day to day, you'll be pulling together management accounts, running balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, and prepayments, as well as building and presenting reports that give senior stakeholders a clear picture of their budgets and financial position. You'll support budgeting and forecasting cycles, prepare business cases and investment appraisals for people initiatives, and work collaboratively across the wider Finance team to continuously improve processes and ways of working.

This is a fixed term contract of up to twelve months, joining a close-knit team with good people, strong stakeholder relationships, and real senior exposure including involvement in budget processes at exec level. The systems and processes aren't always perfect, so you'll need to be the type who gets stuck in rather than waits for things to be straightforward. If you're a qualified accountant who is equally comfortable with month end and with building trusted relationships with non-finance stakeholders, this is a solid role with genuine autonomy and good support around you.

Act as the Finance Business Partner to People function directors and heads, building trusted relationships and supporting informed decision-making across a cost base of circa £20 million

Prepare accurate period end management accounts including balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, and prepayments

Deliver budgeting and forecasting processes for People team functions, providing clear narrative on drivers, risks, and opportunities and ensuring alignment with FP&A

Produce and present monthly management reporting, giving People leaders clear visibility of spend, remaining budgets, and financial performance

Support the preparation of business cases and investment appraisals for People initiatives, challenging assumptions and quantifying values where needed

Track risks and opportunities, providing rolling outturn reporting and flagging issues early to support proactive decision‑making

Work collaboratively across the Finance team to continuously improve processes, leveraging systems and automation to simplify and optimise ways of working

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with a proven track record in both management accounting and finance business partnering

Experienced in month end processes including balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, and prepayments

A strong communicator who can build trust and credibility with non-finance stakeholders at…