Senior Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

• Manage budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and delivery of challenging but achievable financial targets.
• Contribute to the Strategic Business Plan through robust financial modelling and forward-looking analysis, drawing on both business inputs and independent financial insight.
• Develop and maintain a deep, holistic understanding of business activities, customer segments and products and how these translate into financial performance and the P&L.
• Provide independent, value-adding financial analysis, insight and reporting to support performance reviews, commercial decision-making and strategic discussions.
• Tailor financial information and insights to different audiences to ensure relevance, clarity and impact.
• Challenge and influence business plans, budget submissions and forecasts to ensure commercial rigour and alignment with organisational goals.
• Review and support business cases for investments, growth initiatives and new products, ensuring robust financial evaluation and risk assessment.
• Support the financial management of projects, including spend and cash forecasting, accruals and benefits realisation, ensuring financial discipline and alignment with approved budgets.
• Manage and develop a high-performing team by setting clear expectations, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively as part of the FP&A team to deliver priorities and initiatives to support the Financial Planning & Analysis Lead.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) or qualified by experience.
• Significant experience in a business-facing finance role, including budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, business case development and performance reporting.
• Strong commercial insight skills, with the ability to influence and challenge confidently and constructively, including ExCo and Board-level audiences.
• Strong ability to understand business models, customer segments and value drivers and translate strategy into financial insight.
• Able to think beyond short-term results, contributing to long-term planning and strategic decision-making.
• Highly developed ability to analyse and translate complex financial and non-financial data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Ability to lead, coach and develop others.
• Sound professional judgement with the ability to provide independent, balanced advice to support effective decision-making.
• Strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective partnership across finance and the wider business.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment, managing ambiguity and competing priorities effectively.
• Advanced Excel capability, including pivot tables, functions, lookups and data filtering; strong working knowledge of Word.
• Proven and demonstrable ability to prepare and deliver presentations that clearly articulate financial and commercial narratives.
• Solid understanding of management accounting, forecasting and performance management within a commercial environment.

Benefits

• 26 days holiday
• Recharge Days – an additional 4 days per annum to rest and recharge away from work
• Health & Dental Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme
• Fully discounted staff services or cash allowance in lieu
• Co-working office spaces available for remote employees
• Professional Development
  JT provide colleagues with an opportunity to embrace flexibility to work the hours that suit them in a location of their choice – office, home or further afield under our Hybrid Working guidelines. ** ***Through our hybrid working initiative we have diversified the ways in which we recruit, which also means that we are now able to support posts in major global locations. The benefits that are listed above are an example of those that we provide in our key locations, if you are applying from outside of these areas, please note that your compensation package might look a little different. * ** **Our main priority is colleague wellbeing, and we hope this offers greater opportunity for a work life balance. We aim to offer this approach to all colleagues across the business, but we recognise that there are certain roles that will need to work in a specific way due to their nature, such as our colleagues working in engineering, our contact centres and our retail outlets. We are actively working with our management teams to increase flexibility wherever we can.