Finance Business Partner
Job description
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Chase & Holland are excited to be working with a well-respected, established business who are at the forefront of their market and are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to be part of their great team. Reporting into the Senior Finance Business Partner, this role is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a well-known business, who are constantly growing and are a reputable employer in the area.
You will work closely with your stakeholders to help drive high level performance through great relationship building and strong analytical skills, to support effective decision making.
Benefits Include:
- 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 10% bonus
- Hybrid working (3 days in office)
- Private medical
- Life assurance & Critical Illness Cover
- Various discount schemes
- Be involved in maximising short term performance results and supporting longer term strategic business cases to drive the business forward
- Providing weekly financial insight to support review of business performance
- Providing financial analysis, learnings and recommendations to budget holders / to support decision making
- Generate key insights from financial/non financial information (internal and external) to inform business action plans
- Forecasting and budgetary control for specific areas of the business, and support SFBP with forecasting and budgeting for their areas of responsibility
- Provide analysis and insight to support and challenge budget holders
- Monthly reporting to non-financial managers – trend analysis of key indicators & corrective action plans as required
- Support business case development, and play key role in driving delivery and tracking performance
- Pre and post promotional analysis, including analysing viability, wins and learns/ recommendations for the future
- Deputise for Senior FBP where required
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ ACCA or ACA) with proved post qualified experience
- Solid commercial Finance experience in a fast-paced business, ideally with business partnering
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely across finance and non-finance teams
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills
- Commercial astute
- Flexible, dynamic individual, able to manage own workload and changing demand
- Ability to interrogate the right data to analyse trend, make recommendations and tell a story
Chase & Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We specialise in finance, supply chain, HR, IT and office support recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire.
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⭐ Highlight your qualified accountant status (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) prominently as this is explicitly required
📊 Quantify your business partnering impact: 'Supported 8 budget holders, improving forecast accuracy by 15%'
🎯 Emphasise financial modelling experience as the role involves complex analysis and business case development
🤝 Showcase stakeholder management skills - you'll work closely with finance and non-finance teams
💡 Demonstrate commercial acumen with examples of driving business performance through financial insight
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- •Led financial modelling for 12 strategic business cases, delivering £2.3M in approved investment decisions over 18 months
- •Managed forecasting and budgetary control for 6 business units, improving forecast accuracy from 85% to 94% through enhanced analytical processes
- •Provided weekly financial insights to 8 budget holders, identifying cost savings opportunities worth £450k annually through trend analysis
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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am writing to apply for the Finance Business Partner position at your established Doncaster business. With my qualified accountant credentials and proven business partnering experience, I am well-positioned to support your stakeholders in driving high-level performance through financial insight and analytical expertise.
My background in commercial finance and financial modelling aligns perfectly with your requirements for forecasting, budgetary control, and business case development. I have consistently delivered meaningful insights to support decision-making across finance and non-finance teams.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you approach building a financial model for a new business case?
- ›Describe your experience with forecasting and budgetary control processes
- ›How do you ensure accuracy when performing trend analysis on key performance indicators?
- ›What methods do you use to interrogate data and identify meaningful insights?
- ›How would you structure a monthly financial report for non-financial managers?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to challenge a budget holder's decision
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build relationships with non-finance stakeholders
- ›Give an example of when your financial analysis led to a significant business decision
- ›How do you manage competing priorities and changing demands in your workload?
- ›Describe a time when you had to present complex financial information to senior management
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to challenge a budget holder's decision
Give an example of when your financial analysis led to a significant business decision