Finance Business Partner
Job description
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Finance Business Partner
Location: Lincoln
Salary: £50,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Benjamin Edwards are recruiting for a forward-thinking and fast-evolving organisation in Lincoln to recruit a Finance Business Partner. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders, influence key decisions, and add real commercial value across multiple business areas.
This position is ideal for someone who enjoys going beyond the numbers—using data to tell a story, challenge assumptions, and support strategic direction.
The role of the Finance Business Partner
Acting as a true partner to the business, you will:
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders, providing financial insight, guidance, and constructive challenge
- Support the budgeting, forecasting, and longer-term planning cycles
- Analyse business performance, highlighting trends, risks, opportunities, and key drivers
- Lead monthly performance reviews, delivering clear and meaningful commentary
- Develop financial models to assess investments and support strategic initiatives
- Drive improvements in reporting, processes, and data accuracy
- Present financial information in a clear and accessible way to both finance and non-finance audiences
The Ideal candidate for the Finance Business Partner
- Fully qualified or nearly qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
- Previous experience in a business partnering role within a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of inventory and production costing
- Strong analytical capability with the ability to turn data into actionable insight
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with complex datasets
- Commercially aware, confident communicator with strong influencing skills
- Comfortable challenging stakeholders and promoting accountability
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Benjamin Edwards Ltd, please do not hesitate to apply.
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⭐ Highlight your accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) prominently as this is explicitly required
📊 Quantify your business partnering impact: 'Supported £2.5M budget cycle, improved forecast accuracy by 15%'
🎯 Emphasise inventory and production costing experience as this specific knowledge is mentioned
🤝 Showcase examples of challenging stakeholders and driving accountability in previous roles
💡 Demonstrate advanced Excel skills with specific examples of complex financial models you've built
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- •Led monthly performance reviews for 4 business units, delivering insights that identified £180k cost reduction opportunities through inventory optimisation
- •Built financial models using advanced Excel functions to assess 12 strategic initiatives, supporting £2.1M investment decisions with 95% forecast accuracy
- •Challenged senior stakeholders on budget assumptions during quarterly cycles, improving production costing accuracy by 22% across 3 manufacturing lines
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Benjamin Edwards' Finance Business Partner role represents exactly the strategic finance position I seek, combining my ACCA qualification with my passion for inventory costing and business partnering to drive commercial value.
My background in finance business partnering has equipped me with the analytical skills and stakeholder management experience needed to challenge assumptions, build financial models, and translate complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership 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 product launch?
- ›Explain how you would analyse inventory variances in a production environment
- ›What Excel functions do you use most frequently for complex financial analysis?
- ›How do you ensure accuracy when working with large datasets?
- ›Describe your experience with budgeting and forecasting cycles
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to challenge a senior stakeholder's assumptions
- ›Describe a situation where you turned complex data into actionable business insight
- ›Give an example of when you influenced a strategic decision through financial analysis
- ›How do you handle presenting financial information to non-finance audiences?
- ›Tell me about a time you drove process improvements in financial reporting
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 senior stakeholder's assumptions
Describe a situation where you turned complex data into actionable business insight