Interim Finance Business Partner
Posted 2 days ago by Totaljobs
£65,000 Per year
Outside
Onsite
Dudley (DY1)
Summary: The Interim Finance Business Partner role is a critical position within a transforming business, focusing on management reporting, cost analysis, and operational finance for a 12-month contract. The role involves significant interaction with senior stakeholders and aims to enhance financial processes through automation and AI. The candidate will be responsible for delivering accurate financial reporting and identifying opportunities for process improvement. This position requires on-site presence four days a week in Dudley.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver accurate and timely monthly management accounts and reporting
- Perform detailed P&L variance analysis and provide meaningful insight into business performance
- Present financial results, cost analysis and recommendations to senior management
- Manage and oversee internal management fee and property charge processes, ensuring all transactions are correctly raised, approved and processed
- Support group reporting requirements and contribute to the annual budgeting and forecasting cycles
- Ensure robust financial controls and operational processes are maintained across the function
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce manual workloads by using AI
- Leverage automation, business intelligence, and AI-driven solutions to enhance finance processes and drive continuous improvement
Key Skills:
- Experience within management accounting, commercial finance or finance business partnering
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate financial information clearly
- Experience producing management information and presenting findings to stakeholders
- A process-driven mindset with a genuine interest in improving ways of working
- An understanding of automation, AI or data tools within finance environments
- Excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving
Salary (Rate): £65000 per annum
City: Dudley
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
We are looking for an Interim Finance Business Partner to join a business at a critical time of transformation on a 12-month contract. This is a highly visible role, combining management reporting, cost analysis and operational finance, with significant exposure to senior stakeholders and ongoing process improvement initiatives.
This position sits in the core business, overseeing a cost base that includes approximately 90% of payroll expenditure and most business overheads. As a result, exceptional attention to detail and a proactive approach to cost control are essential. This role requires someone on-site 4 days a week.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver accurate and timely monthly management accounts and reporting
- Perform detailed P&L variance analysis and provide meaningful insight into business performance
- Present financial results, cost analysis and recommendations to senior management
- Manage and oversee internal management fee and property charge processes, ensuring all transactions are correctly raised, approved and processed
- Support group reporting requirements and contribute to the annual budgeting and forecasting cycles
- Ensure robust financial controls and operational processes are maintained across the function
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce manual workloads by using AI
Process Improvement & Automation
A major focus for the business is finance transformation. Significant investment has been made in automation, business intelligence and AI-driven solutions to improve reporting and operational efficiency.
The organisation has an established 12-person data team based in London that has developed a sophisticated BI environment using Looker, alongside the controlled rollout of Claude AI across the business. The successful candidate will play an active role in leveraging these tools to enhance finance processes and drive continuous improvement.
About You
We are looking for a self-starter who is comfortable taking ownership of their work, managing priorities independently and ensuring key deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
You will ideally have:
- Experience within management accounting, commercial finance or finance business partnering
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate financial information clearly
- Experience producing management information and presenting findings to stakeholders
- A process-driven mindset with a genuine interest in improving ways of working
- An understanding of automation, AI or data tools within finance environments
- Excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates