Senior Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner

Salary: Competitive salary, car allowance, bonus and benefits

Location: Leeds, with parking - Hybrid working

The Role Are you a commercially minded finance leader who thrives on turning insight into action?

We are seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to play a pivotal role in driving commercial performance, influencing strategic decisions and supporting financial excellence across a key business unit.

This is more than a reporting role. It's an opportunity to become a trusted advisor to senior leaders, shape commercial strategy, improve profitability and help steer the future direction of an important area of the business. What You'll Be Doing You'll be at the heart of commercial decision making, providing robust financial insight, strategic challenge and actionable recommendations that drive performance with a clear progression route to allow you to step up in the business.

Key responsibilities include

Leading pricing and customer profitability analysis, supporting commercial tenders and helping to ensure profitable growth.

Owning budgeting and forecasting processes, delivering accurate financial plans and clear variance analysis.

Producing insightful reporting and developing automated KPI dashboards that enable better and faster decision-making.

Identifying risks, opportunities and performance trends across multiple sites, teams and workstreams to maximise margin and profitability.

Building influential relationships with stakeholders across the business, providing support, challenge and commercial guidance.

Leading and developing a small Finance team.

Acting as a deputy to the Finance Director when required.

Supporting strategic initiatives and commercial projects through financial modelling, analysis and insight.

What We're Looking For We're seeking a commercially astute finance professional who enjoys working in a fast moving environment and can confidently influence stakeholders at all levels.

You'll bring

ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.

Significant experience in Finance Business Partnering or commercial finance roles.

Strong analytical and financial modelling capability.

The ability to translate complex financial data into compelling business recommendations.

Experience influencing senior stakeholders and challenging constructively to improve outcomes.

Strong Excel skills and experience using ERP and financial reporting tools.

Experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools is advantageous.

Experience leading, mentoring or developing others.

Key Skills & Attributes

Commercially focused with strong business acumen.

Confident and credible when working with senior stakeholders.

Able to challenge constructively and influence decisions.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity.

Able to communicate financial insight clearly to both Finance and non-Finance audiences.

Highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities.

A collaborative and inclusive leadership style.

Focused on delivering measurable business outcomes.

Why Join? This is an opportunity to take on a highly visible Finance Business Partnering role within a complex and commercially important business unit.

You'll work alongside senior leaders, make a visible impact on commercial performance and help shape strategic decisions through high-quality financial insight and challenge.

The role offers the opportunity to combine commercial thinking, financial leadership and strategic influence while leading and developing a small Finance team.