Finance Business Partner
Posted 4 days ago by In2 Consult
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Finance Business Partner role is a 12-month fixed-term contract based in Central London, focusing on providing financial guidance and insights to operational and project leaders. The position requires a commercially savvy individual to support budgeting, forecasting, and investment proposals while ensuring effective cost control and performance management. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and the ability to influence decision-making through data-driven recommendations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with operational and project leaders, providing financial guidance and commercial challenge throughout the lifecycle of initiatives
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for capital spend and project activity
- Review and shape investment proposals, building robust business cases and tracking returns
- Deliver concise, insightful reporting and analysis that highlights trends, risks and opportunities
- Support cost control and performance management to keep programmes on track and within budget
- Identify and mitigate financial risks, strengthening governance and controls across projects
- Collaborate with wider finance teams to drive consistency, best practice and continuous improvement
Key Skills:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent) qualified
- Proven experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role with strong stakeholder engagement
- Background supporting complex projects- specific exposure to manufacturing or cost-centred industries is highly preferable
- Able to turn data into practical recommendations that influence decisions
- Confident communicator with the credibility to challenge and advise senior leaders
- Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail and ownership
- Comfortable working across multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-moving organisation
- Willing to travel between sites as required
Salary (Rate): £60,000 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Detailed Description From Employer:
Finance Business Partner 12 Month FTC Central London (Hybrid) £55,000-£60,000 + 15% Bonus ACCA/CIMA/ACA
IN2 Consult is partnering with a large-cap, PE backed client on the recruitment of a commercially savvy Finance Business Partner to join one of their key divisions on a 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract.
The role's purpose is to closely partner with key operational and project leaders to provide insight on current and upcoming initiatives, guiding them through their numbers and painting an accurate picture to help aid key decision making.
Key responsibilities
- Partner closely with operational and project leaders, providing financial guidance and commercial challenge throughout the lifecycle of initiatives
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for capital spend and project activity
- Review and shape investment proposals, building robust business cases and tracking returns
- Deliver concise, insightful reporting and analysis that highlights trends, risks and opportunities
- Support cost control and performance management to keep programmes on track and within budget
- Identify and mitigate financial risks, strengthening governance and controls across projects
- Collaborate with wider finance teams to drive consistency, best practice and continuous improvement
About you
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent) qualified
- Proven experience in a commercial finance or business partnering role with strong stakeholder engagement
- Background supporting complex projects- specific exposure to manufacturing or cost-centred industries is highly preferable
- Able to turn data into practical recommendations that influence decisions
- Confident communicator with the credibility to challenge and advise senior leaders
- Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail and ownership
- Comfortable working across multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-moving organisation
- Willing to travel between sites as required
Finance Business Partner 12 Month FTC Central London (Hybrid) £55,000-£60,000 + 15% Bonus ACCA/CIMA/ACA
