Senior Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner / Senior Management Accountant | 6 - 12 initial Month FTC

Location: Beckenham area, Kent (4 days on-site, 1 day from home, plus a visit to the Uxbridge site every 1 to 2 weeks)

Contract: Fixed term, initial 6 - 12 months, with potential to go permanent

Salary: £60,000 to £90,000 Pro-rate, DOE, plus good benefits

Start: By Latest 1st December

The opportunity

Our client, a Entertainment Services business, is looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Business Partner to strengthen its planning, analysis and performance reporting. You will work directly with the Finance Director, CEO and senior leadership team, improving financial visibility, sharpening forecasting and supporting better commercial and operational decisions.

This is a hands on role. You will be just as comfortable building a financial model as you are challenging a budget holder, and you will do more than report the numbers: you will explain what is driving performance and recommend what to do about it.

What you will be doing

- Coordinating budgeting and building rolling forecasts across revenue, gross profit, operating costs and EBITDA

- Producing clear, timely management information and KPIs for the CEO, FD and senior team

- Analysing profitability by client, project and service line, and flagging cost overruns and margin erosion early

- Partnering with commercial, sales, production and operations teams, and supporting pricing, tenders and major client opportunities

- Gaining greater visibility of the cost base and identifying efficiency and cost control opportunities

- Building models, dashboards and reporting tools that reduce manual effort and improve data quality

- Supporting month end reporting, variance analysis and group reporting requirements

What we are looking for

Essential

- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 2-5 years+ PQE,

- Significant experience in FP&A, management accounting or commercial finance

- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills

- Strong grasp of P&L, gross margin, EBITDA and cost drivers

- US Reporting experience

- Experience supporting transformation or integration programmes

- Confident communicator who can challenge and influence senior stakeholders

- A proactive, inquisitive, roll your sleeves up approach

Desirable

- Service / project based environment

- Project profitability, labour cost and subcontractor analysis

- Power BI or similar reporting tools

- Group reporting experience

What success looks like

Within six months you will have improved forecast accuracy, established clearer reporting on margin, costs and EBITDA, built strong relationships with commercial and operational leaders, and helped the FD and CEO make faster, better informed decisions.