Interim Finance Business Partner

Summary: Trinity House Group is seeking an Interim Finance Business Partner for a 3-6 month contract in Birmingham City Centre. This hybrid role involves strategic business partnering and core management accounting, requiring a commercially minded individual to support decision-making and financial performance. The position demands collaboration with operational leaders and the preparation of management accounts. The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with experience in management accounting and business partnering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with operational and departmental leaders to provide financial insight and support decision-making
• Deliver value-added analysis on performance, trends, risks, and opportunities
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes with key stakeholders
• Challenge and influence non-finance managers to improve financial performance
• Develop financial models to support business cases and investment decisions
• Present financial results and analysis to senior management
• Identify opportunities for cost control, efficiency improvements, and revenue enhancement
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts
• Lead month-end and year-end close processes
• Produce variance analysis with clear commentary
• Maintain financial controls and ensure compliance with accounting standards
• Assist with budgeting and reforecasting cycles
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Support audit processes and statutory reporting requirements
• Improve reporting processes and systems where appropriate

Key Skills:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
• Proven experience in management accounting and delivering Month End
• Experience in a business partnering or commercially focused finance role
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Confident challenging and influencing senior stakeholders

Salary (Rate): £450.00 Daily

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance

Trinity House Group is recruiting a commercially minded Interim Finance Business Partner for a long standing client based in Birmingham City Centre for a 3-6m contract. This is a hybrid role - 3 days on site with responsibilities split between strategic business partnering and core management accounting.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Business Partnering

• Partner with operational and departmental leaders to provide financial insight and support decision-making
• Deliver value-added analysis on performance, trends, risks, and opportunities
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes with key stakeholders
• Challenge and influence non-finance managers to improve financial performance
• Develop financial models to support business cases and investment decisions
• Present financial results and analysis to senior management
• Identify opportunities for cost control, efficiency improvements, and revenue enhancement

Management Accounting

• Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts
• Lead month-end and year-end close processes
• Produce variance analysis with clear commentary
• Maintain financial controls and ensure compliance with accounting standards
• Assist with budgeting and reforecasting cycles
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Support audit processes and statutory reporting requirements
• Improve reporting processes and systems where appropriate

About You

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
• Proven experience in management accounting and delivering Month End
• Experience in a business partnering or commercially focused finance role
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Confident challenging and influencing senior stakeholders