Interim Finance Business Partner
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Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Birmingham
Summary: The role of Interim Finance Business Partner involves providing financial insight and support to senior leadership within a leading professional services firm in Birmingham. The position requires strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence decision-making processes while managing a small finance team. The successful candidate will lead budgeting, forecasting, and business planning, driving financial discipline and enhancing profitability. This interim role offers the potential for permanent placement and a competitive compensation package.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted business partner to senior leadership, providing financial insight and support.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes aligned with strategic priorities.
- Challenge assumptions and identify opportunities to enhance revenue and profitability.
- Support commercial activities such as pricing, tenders, and investment cases.
- Drive financial discipline across work in progress, billing, debt management, and cost control.
- Deliver reporting that improves visibility and accountability across the business.
- Partner with business development teams to maximize client profitability.
- Lead and develop a small commercial finance team, fostering high performance and continuous improvement.
Key Skills:
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Strong commercial acumen with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Advanced analytical and financial modelling capability.
- Excellent communication skills for presenting complex financial information.
- Track record of driving business performance and delivering measurable results.
- Experience in managing and developing team members.
- Strong problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in a professional services environment is advantageous.
- Familiarity with financial planning and reporting tools is desirable.
Salary (Rate): £90,000 yearly
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
A highly regarded professional services firm looking to appoint an Interim Commercial Business Partner
Your new company
We are supporting a leading professional services firm based in Birmingham City Centre with the recruitment of a commercially focused Finance Business Partner. This firm has a very strong global presence and a collaborative and progressive culture.
Your new role
As a Commercial Finance Lead, you will act as a trusted business partner to senior leadership, providing robust financial insight, challenge and support to drive performance and strategic decision-making. Working closely with leadership and key decision-makers, you will lead the budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and delivering clear, insightful analysis to support better decision-making.
You will play a key role in challenging assumptions, identifying opportunities to enhance both revenue and profitability, and supporting important commercial activities such as pricing, tenders, investment cases and strategic hires. Alongside this, you will drive financial discipline across areas including work in progress, billing, debt management and cost control, while delivering reporting that improves visibility and accountability across the business.
In addition, you will partner closely with business development teams to maximise client profitability and commercial outcomes, while leading and developing a small commercial finance team and fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders and contribute directly to the strategic direction and financial success of the business.
What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for a commercially focused finance professional who can make an immediate impact, operate with credibility and confidence in a senior stakeholder environment. You will be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified and bring strong commercial acumen, with a proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders effectively.You will have advanced analytical and financial modelling capability, combined with excellent communication skills that allow you to present complex financial information in a clear and accessible way. A track record of driving business performance and delivering measurable results is essential, alongside experience of managing and developing team members.You should be a strong problem-solver who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment and able to deal with complexity and ambiguity. Experience within a professional services environment would be advantageous, as would an understanding of key financial performance drivers such as utilisation, margins and working capital. Familiarity with financial planning and reporting tools is also desirable.
What you'll get in return
This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading professional services firm. While the role is offered on an interim basis, there is potential for it to become permanent. A competitive day rate or fixed-term contract package is available.
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