Finance Business Partner

TheRole: 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. Key Responsibilities: • 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. The Ideal Candidate: • 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 within a multi-site or complex organisation would be beneficial but is not essential. What They Offer: • up to £70,000 base salary. • Hybrid working model. • Comprehensive benefits package. • 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. How To Apply: 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.