Finance Business Partner
Posted 1 day ago by Robert Walters
£350 Per day
Outside
Onsite
East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Finance Business Partner role is a full-time position based in the East Midlands, focusing on financial performance and decision-making support for complex projects. The position involves partnering with operational teams, managing project costs, and delivering financial insights to senior stakeholders. This is an initial 12-month contract with a daily rate of £350. The role requires a qualified accountant with strong finance business partnering experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner & support wider operational and commercial teams with financial insight
- Monitor and control project costs, ensuring accurate reporting and budget management
- Prepare project costings to support business cases
- Build and maintain forecasting models using data visualisation and automation tools (e.g. Power BI or similar)
- Deliver weekly forecasts and variance analysis to support informed decision-making
- Support external funding processes and commercial performance optimisation
- Collaborate with project leaders on resource planning and headcount costing
- Drive automation and continuous improvement across reporting processes
- Present financial insights clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong experience in finance business partnering, management accounting, or cost control
- Proven background in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Experience working with large datasets and financial modelling
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with data platforms is highly desirable
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Salary (Rate): £350.00/daily
City: East Midlands
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
East Midlands (Full time on site) £350 PD 12-Month Contract
We are partnering with a leading organisation to recruit a Finance Business Partner for an initial 12-month contract in the East Midlands. This role offers the opportunity to take real ownership of financial performance, partnering closely with operational teams to influence decision-making across complex, high-impact projects.
You will:
- Partner & support wider operational and commercial teams with financial insight
- Monitor and control project costs, ensuring accurate reporting and budget management
- Prepare project costingsto support business cases
- Build and maintain forecasting models using data visualisation and automation tools (e.g. Power BI or similar)
- Deliver weekly forecasts and variance analysis to support informed decision-making
- Support external funding processes and commercial performance optimisation
- Collaborate with project leaders on resource planning and headcount costing
- Drive automation and continuous improvement across reporting processes
- Present financial insights clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders
You are:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong experience in finance business partnering, management accounting, or cost control
- Proven background in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Experience working with large datasets and financial modelling
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with data platforms is highly desirable
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
What's on Offer
- £350 per day
- Initial 12-month contract with potential extension
- Opportunity to support highly innovative projects
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