Finance Business Partner
Posted 1 week ago by Newstone Talent Solutions
£100 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Finance Business Partner – Transformation role is a contract position based in London, focusing on providing financial insight and support to the Chief Transformation Officer during a significant transformation initiative. The role requires a seasoned finance professional to establish reporting frameworks, track costs, and ensure benefits realization throughout the transformation lifecycle. This position is ideal for individuals who excel in business partnering and thrive in dynamic environments. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in shaping investment decisions and delivering measurable value to the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner directly with the Chief Transformation Officer, providing financial insight and challenge across the change portfolio
- Design and implement financial reporting frameworks for the transformation programme
- Track programme costs, investment and run rate savings across multiple initiatives
- Own benefits realisation tracking, ensuring financial and operational benefits are measured and validated
- Build, review and challenge transformation business cases to maximise ROI
- Support programme level budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting cycles
- Produce clear, decision-ready reporting for senior executives, steering committees and boards
- Partner with FP&A, programme teams and business units to ensure strong financial governance
- Identify financial risks and opportunities and support mitigation planning
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Strong background in finance business partnering or programme finance
- Proven experience supporting large scale change or transformation programmes
- Hands-on experience with cost tracking, business cases and benefits realisation
- Comfortable operating in fast paced, ambiguous environments
- High credibility with senior stakeholders and strong influencing skills
- Commercially astute, detail-oriented and outcome driven
Salary (Rate): £100.00/hr
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Senior Finance Business Partner – Transformation
Location: London (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Salary/Rate: From £700-£800 p/d Inside IR35
Join a global business at a pivotal stage of large-scale transformation. This is a high impact opportunity for a senior finance professional to act as the key partner to the Chief Transformation Officer, providing the financial rigour, insight and structure that underpins a complex change agenda. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a true business partnering capacity - setting up reporting frameworks, tracking programme costs, building business cases and ensuring benefits realisation is embedded across the transformation lifecycle.
The Role
As Senior Finance Business Partner - Transformation, you'll be the financial link between the Transformation Office and the wider finance function. You'll support the CTO and programme leaders with robust financial control, transparent reporting and providing commercially astute challenges across the programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the Chief Transformation Officer, providing financial insight and challenge across the change portfolio
- Design and implement financial reporting frameworks for the transformation programme
- Track programme costs, investment and run rate savings across multiple initiatives
- Own benefits realisation tracking, ensuring financial and operational benefits are measured and validated
- Build, review and challenge transformation business cases to maximise ROI
- Support programme level budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting cycles
- Produce clear, decision-ready reporting for senior executives, steering committees and boards
- Partner with FP&A, programme teams and business units to ensure strong financial governance
- Identify financial risks and opportunities and support mitigation planning
About You
Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
Strong background in finance business partnering or programme finance
Proven experience supporting large scale change or transformation programmes
Hands-on experience with cost tracking, business cases and benefits realisation
Comfortable operating in fast paced, ambiguous environments
High credibility with senior stakeholders and strong influencing skills
Commercially astute, detail-oriented and outcome driven
Why Apply?
This is a high-visibility business partnering role at the heart of a major transformation journey. You’ll work closely with executive leadership, shape investment decisions and ensure the transformation delivers real, measurable value while deepening your exposure to complex, enterprise level change.