Senior Finance Business Partner

Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner with strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence senior stakeholders? Do you enjoy providing strategic financial insight that shapes investment decisions and drives organisational performance? Are you looking for a role where business partnering is truly at the heart of the position?

A large and nationally recognised charity is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join its finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Supporting one of the organisation's largest and most commercially focused directorates, this is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to partner with senior leaders and influence key strategic decisions.

This is far more than a traditional management accounting role. The successful candidate will provide commercial challenge, support investment decisions and act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders across a significant income-generating area of the organisation.

The key responsibilities of the Senior Finance Business Partner are:

• Acting as the lead finance partner to a major operational directorate with significant income and expenditure responsibilities.
• Providing commercial analysis to support investment decisions, growth initiatives and strategic projects.
• Preparing business cases, investment appraisals and scenario analysis to support key decision-making.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning activities.
• Delivering insightful financial analysis and performance reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Building strong relationships with directors and senior leaders, providing both support and constructive challenge.
• Supporting and developing junior finance colleagues within a collaborative team structure.
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting and business partnering across the organisation.

The successful candidate will have:

• Proven experience operating in a Finance Business Partner role within a complex organisation.
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience supporting investment decisions and evaluating financial performance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior non-finance leaders.
• Experience preparing business cases, investment appraisals and financial modelling.
• The ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and proactively identify where finance can add value.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) would be advantageous, but strong qualified by experience candidates will also be considered.
• Previous charity experience and exposure to reporting tools such as Power BI would be beneficial but are not essential.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a highly regarded charity in a genuinely strategic finance role, where your commercial insight and business partnering expertise will make a significant impact during an important period for the organisation.