Finance Business Partner

We are partnering with a high-growth business in Northampton to recruit a commercially minded Finance Business Partner. This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified accountant looking to combine strong core finance responsibilities with meaningful involvement in commercial decision-making and business performance.

Reporting into senior finance leadership, the role offers an excellent blend of traditional finance and commercial partnering, with approximately 60% focused on month-end and management accounting activities and the remaining 40% dedicated to commercial insight, analysis, and supporting key business decisions.

The successful candidate will enjoy working with large volumes of data, have exceptional Excel skills, and be comfortable transforming financial information into meaningful business insight.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Month-End (c.60%)

• Ownership of the monthly management accounts process.
• Preparation and review of P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting.
• Monthly variance analysis, commentary and performance reporting.
• Accruals, prepayments and journal postings.
• Balance sheet reconciliations and control activities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and periodic financial planning processes.
• Drive continuous improvement within reporting processes and controls.

Commercial Finance & Business Partnering (c.40%)

• Partner with operational and non-finance stakeholders across the business.
• Provide financial analysis and insight to support commercial decision-making.
• Analyse trends, profitability, costs and business performance drivers.
• Develop and enhance reporting packs, dashboards and KPI analysis.
• Support business cases, investment decisions and ad-hoc commercial projects.
• Manipulate large data sets using Excel to identify opportunities and risks.
• Challenge assumptions and provide recommendations to improve profitability and performance.

About You

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Strong month-end and management accounting experience.
• Commercially aware with the ability to translate financial data into actionable insight.
• Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables, Lookups, Power Query and large data-set manipulation.
• Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident communicator able to influence stakeholders across the business.
• Proactive, inquisitive and keen to add value beyond the numbers.

Salary

£60,000 to £62,000 plus full benefits package to include Hybrid working