Finance Business Partner

Financial Business Partner

Do you want to join a purpose driven company who are making a global impact on society and creating a healthier environment both now and for future generations?

Here at Whitefox Technologies, we're growing fast, and we're looking for a Finance Business Partner to help us with our mission to reduce energy and water waste in industrial processes and drive real-world impact.

You'll join a dynamic, global team, working closely with colleagues across innovation, engineering, operations, and commercial.

The Finance Business Partner - Projects & R&D serves as the primary link between project delivery teams, R&D functions, and the wider finance organisation. Based in Canada and reporting to the Financial Controller in the UK, the role acts as the North American finance representative, ensuring that project and operational activities are accurately reflected in financial reporting, forecasting, and commercial decision-making.

Working closely with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, and R&D teams, the role translates operational performance into meaningful financial insight while ensuring finance requirements, reporting deadlines, and governance processes are effectively communicated and supported within the business.

The position combines project financial management, business partnering, and stakeholder engagement, requiring a proactive and self-sufficient individual capable of operating effectively within a geographically dispersed finance team.

Join Whitefox in shaping a more efficient industrial future. As part of our team, you'll turn insight into action, driving smarter processes, solving real-world challenges, and helping deliver advanced membrane solutions that enable industries to produce more with less.

Every improvement you make moves us closer to our 2030 goal of being globally trusted leaders in efficiency and innovation.

• Act as the primary interface between North American project teams and the global finance function.
• Coordinate the flow of financial and operational information required for monthly reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business planning.
• Assist/working with project managers to provide accurate and timely cost, revenue, milestone, resource, and forecast information.
• Challenge assumptions and investigate variances to ensure reporting accurately reflects project performance.
• Support the Financial Controller and CFO by providing operational context behind financial results.
• Promote consistent financial processes, reporting standards, and governance across project teams.
• Help non-finance stakeholders understand reporting requirements and financial performance metrics.
• Act as a local champion for finance initiatives, systems, and process improvements.

• Monitor project costs, revenue, budgets, forecasts, and profitability.
• Prepare and maintain project financial reports and dashboards.
• Analyse project margins and identify risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Support project forecasting and resource planning processes.
• Assist Project Managers in understanding financial implications of project decisions.

• Assist with documentation and reporting requirements related to R&D incentives, grants, or tax credits where applicable.

• Support production of regular management information focused on project performance, margin analysis, utilisation, and cost trends.
• Deliver meaningful financial insights rather than purely transactional reporting.
• Support month-end reporting through analysis and explanation of project-related financial results.
• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes.

• Act as the local representative of the global finance function within Canada.
• Provide support and cover for other finance activities when required.
• Facilitating project invoicing
• Liaise with the London-based finance team to ensure consistency of reporting and processes.
• Support continuous improvement of finance processes, controls, and reporting tools.

• Acts as a bridge between finance, project…