
Finance Business Partner
- Leeds
- £45,500-55,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Delivering accurate and detailed Operations Financial Plans for your supported area, ensuring full business engagement and stress testing.
- Embedding risks and opportunities into forecasts, providing clarity on financial impacts, and partnering with Operations and field colleagues on mitigation or optimisation.
- Owning and maintaining all planning inputs, assumptions, and drivers across forecasts, budgets, and strategic plans.
- Partnering with Central Operations and field business partners to ensure targeting and cost control are optimised.
- Reconciling key performance layers and performing variance analysis to understand drivers of results.
- Delivering cyclical reporting (P&L and Capital) and contributing to consolidated performance reviews.
- Supporting the transition to dashboard-led reporting, integrating financial and non-financial KPIs.
- Building business cases with Operations and field partners to secure investment and future value.
- Owning appraisal assumptions and ensuring alignment between business cases and financial planning models.
- Fully or part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent) with 4+ years’ accountancy experience.
- UK Driving Licence.
- Proven experience in insights or business partnering roles.
- Strong knowledge of analytical methods, including hypothesis-driven approaches.
- Track record of delivering financial plans, budgets, and forecasts.
- Experience of building business cases and financial appraisals.
- Confident storyteller, able to translate complex financial data into clear, impactful narratives.