Finance Business Partner - maternity cover

Finance Business Partner - maternity cover

Application Deadline: 28 April 2025

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Remote, UK

Description

12 month FTC - maternity cover.
As business partner to the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), you will play a pivotal role in supporting commercial decision-making through deep financial insight, advanced analytics, and proactive business partnering. This role is central to driving the business's financial performance, supporting strategic initiatives, and continuously improving the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial finance support.

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong and trusted relationships with the CCO, Director of Customer Engagement, Sales Director, and wider commercial leadership team.
• Act as a thought partner, providing timely and accurate financial analysis, commentary, and insight to influence commercial strategy.
• Translate complex data from multiple systems (including Dynamics 365, Business Central, Binary Stream, HubSpot, and Excel/Power BI) into actionable insights across revenue, sales performance, customer behaviour, and pricing strategy.
• Define, implement, and embed new ways of working to drive efficiency in financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting-leveraging automation and process improvement.
• Provide analytical support on commercial initiatives, including business cases, ROI evaluations, pipeline analysis, and performance tracking (pre- and post-mortem).
• Support end-to-end ownership of sales commission processes, from interpreting sales outputs to reviewing and validating final commission payments.
• Partner with sales and revenue teams to ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition, including understanding of complex deal structures or billing models.
• Identify and monitor key risks, opportunities, and KPIs, and proactively flag any emerging trends or variances.
• Own the forecasting and budgeting process for revenue and commercial cost lines, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and operational drivers.
• Collaborate with central finance to ensure integrity and quality of data, timely reporting, and alignment across planning processes.
• Drive commercial process and systems improvements in collaboration with sales operations, data teams, and finance systems.
• Lead on the development of dashboards, models, and tools to enhance visibility, scenario planning, and decision-making.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with 5+ years post-qualified experience, ideally within a commercial, FP&A, or sales finance role.
• Highly analytical with the ability to connect datasets, identify patterns, and drive commercial recommendations.
• Strong self-starter, able to work independently, define their own remit, and bring structure to ambiguous problems.
• Deep understanding of revenue recognition and sales performance metrics.
• Proven experience of business partnering in a dynamic, fast-paced commercial environment.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and influencing senior stakeholders with confidence.
• Excellent modelling skills with advanced Excel and exposure to tools such as Power BI, SQL, or similar.
• Experience with forecasting, budgeting, and planning tools (e.g. Planful, Power BI, Dynamics, Binary Stream) is advantageous.
• Strong communication skills-able to tailor financial storytelling to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Energetic and adaptable mindset, always seeking ways to improve and contribute beyond the core remit.
• Experience working in a matrixed or multi-entity environment is a plus.