Senior Finance Business Partner
Posted Today by Exalto Consulting
£75,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The Senior Finance Business Partner role involves providing commercial leadership and financial oversight within a large retail and consumer services organization on a fixed-term contract basis. The position requires a qualified accountant to support senior stakeholders with financial decision-making and core finance processes. The role is hybrid, requiring two days a week in the office, and is critical during a period of change. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of all financial matters for a senior functional directorate.
- Provide commercial decision support and ensure robust delivery of core finance processes, including month end, forecasting, planning, reporting, and project accounting.
- Act as a proactive advisor to senior leaders, clarifying complex decisions and highlighting opportunities and risks.
- Build strong relationships and provide visible financial leadership within the leadership team.
- Contribute to key forums and shape outcomes to improve performance.
Key Skills:
- Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with at least two years' post qualification experience.
- Strong background in commercial finance within a retail or consumer-focused environment.
- Proven experience in finance business partnering and supporting senior stakeholders.
- Understanding of business drivers, profitability, and decision support modelling.
- Hands-on experience with month end, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
- Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to challenge constructively.
- Experience leading or managing others and contributing to cross-functional projects.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
Salary (Rate): £75,000 yearly
City: Bradford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Senior Finance Business Partner - Up to £75,000 + £6,000 car + excellent benefits.
Must be available to start ASAP/immediately!
Fixed Term Contract - up to 12 months
Location: Bradford City Centre (Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office).
Exalto Consulting is working with a large, customer focused organisation operating at scale across retail and consumer services. They are seeking an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join them on a fixed term basis and provide strong commercial leadership during a critical period of delivery and change.
This role sits within the wider Finance Directorate and plays a central part in supporting a functional leadership team to make informed, commercially sound decisions. It blends strategic business partnering with hands on financial leadership, balancing insight, challenge and delivery in a fast moving environment.
About the role
As a trusted finance partner to a senior functional directorate, you will take ownership of all financial matters for that area. Your focus will be on commercial decision support while also ensuring robust delivery of core finance processes, including month end, forecasting, planning, reporting and project accounting.
You will act as a proactive advisor and sounding board to senior leaders, bringing clarity to complex decisions and highlighting both opportunities and risks. Through strong relationships and visible financial leadership, you will become an Embedded member of the leadership team, contributing to key forums and shaping outcomes that improve performance.
This is a role for someone comfortable operating at pace, able to switch between strategic thinking and detailed delivery, and confident leading both people and process.
About you
You will be a professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with at least two years' post qualification experience and a strong background in commercial finance within a retail or consumer focused environment.
You bring:
- Proven experience in finance business partnering and supporting senior stakeholders
- A strong understanding of business drivers, profitability and decision support modelling
- Hands on experience delivering month end, budgeting and forecasting processes end to end
- Excellent Excel and financial modelling capability, with the ability to present complex information clearly
- Strong communication skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build credibility quickly
- Experience leading or managing others and contributing to cross functional projects
- The ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities and maintain high levels of accuracy