Finance Business Partner

Our Client:

Head4Talent are currently working exclusively for a leading and fast-growth private-equity backed services group that are looking to hire a highly capable and commercially astute Finance Business Partner to join the Finance team.

The Role:

This is a pivotal role, responsible for supporting the business’s forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting processes, as well as providing insightful financial analysis to support decision-making.

The successful candidate will combine excellent business partnering skills with strong financial modelling expertise to deliver high-quality insights that drive growth and profitability.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the financial future of a growing business. Part of its growth will be organic, while the acquisitions of new businesses will play a significant role too.

You will work closely with the leadership team and senior finance stakeholders.

Specific responsibilities:

Business Partnering

• Partner with operational and commercial leaders to provide actionable financial insights.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and wider leadership team, driving accountability for performance.
• Support the annual budget and rolling forecast process, including building, and maintaining robust financial models.
• Evaluate and challenge assumptions from business leaders to ensure accurate and realistic financial planning.

Performance Reporting & Analytics

• Develop KPI development, monitoring, and reporting that support business needs.
• Deliver insightful variance analysis to highlight key drivers of performance.

About You:

Technical Skills

Strong financial modelling skills (Excel essential, strong experience with complex integrated models).

Experience in building commercial models to provide insight into project and customer performance.

Power BI & Power Query knowledge preferred, but not essential.

Experience

Ability to extract and validate information from business stakeholders.

Strong record of partnering with business leaders to deliver insight and challenge assumptions.

Industry experience is beneficial but not essential.

Personal Attributes

Commercially minded, with the ability to see the “big picture” while retaining strong attention to detail.

Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to build relationships across all levels.

Highly proactive and hands-on, with a focus on driving results and continuous improvement.