Finance Business Partner

Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days in the office
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Macildowie Finance are delighted to be partnering with a well-established, successful and ambitious business to recruit a commercially focused Finance Business Partner.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified finance professional to join a growing, multi-divisional organisation in a highly visible role, working closely with senior leadership to influence business performance and support strategic decision-making.

The successful candidate will take ownership of group-wide financial planning, forecasting, reporting and commercial analysis, providing meaningful insight that helps drive business performance.

The Role

Working closely with the senior finance leadership team and operational stakeholders, the Finance Business Partner will play a key role in developing financial reporting, improving forecasting accuracy and supporting commercial decisions across multiple business divisions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Taking ownership of monthly management reporting and performance analysis across multiple divisions, providing clear commentary on financial results, key drivers and emerging trends.

• Leading budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning processes, challenging assumptions and ensuring financial projections are robust and commercially credible.

• Business partnering with senior stakeholders, including divisional leadership teams, to provide financial insight, constructive challenge and recommendations.

• Delivering detailed commercial analysis across sales, pricing, volumes, margins, profitability and operational performance.

• Developing and maintaining financial models, including P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts, alongside scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.

• Supporting cash-flow forecasting, working-capital analysis and financial planning to improve visibility of future performance.

• Producing insightful dashboards and management information to support commercial and strategic decision-making.

• Playing a leading role in the development and improvement of financial planning and reporting systems, including automation and enhanced data visualisation.

• Providing financial modelling and analysis to support potential acquisitions, investment opportunities and wider strategic initiatives.

• Identifying opportunities to streamline reporting processes, improve data accuracy and enhance the quality of financial information across the business.

About You

The business is looking for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working with stakeholders, challenging the numbers and turning financial information into meaningful business insight.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• A fully qualified accounting background (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).

• Strong experience within FP&A, commercial finance or finance business partnering.

• Experience working within a complex, multi-site or multi-entity business.

• A proven track record of managing budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes.

• Excellent financial modelling and advanced Excel skills.

• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse performance and identify opportunities to improve profitability.

• Confidence communicating and presenting financial information to senior stakeholders.

• Experience working with business intelligence tools, reporting dashboards or financial planning systems.

• A proactive approach to process improvement, systems development and reporting automation.

• The ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and build effective relationships across a business.