Finance Business Partner - 9 month FTC

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in our London Office at least 2 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Finance Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner will lead financial analysis and business partnering for our BDUK leadership team, focusing on evaluating contract performance and supporting bid updates. This role involves financial modelling, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement of reporting processes. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong commercial finance experience and excellent communication skills.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Collaborate closely with the BDUK leadership team to evaluate contract performance, ensuring expectations are met and communicating outcomes clearly and confidently
• Take the lead on financial modelling for bid updates, delivering accurate and insightful analysis to support strategic decision-making
• Foster and maintain strong, positive relationships with internal stakeholders, building trust and encouraging open, effective collaboration
• Enhance internal reporting processes by leveraging tools such as data warehouses and Salesforce, driving improvements in efficiency and clarity
• Lead finance-related projects from start to finish, coordinating team resources thoughtfully to ensure successful and timely delivery

What you’ll bring to the role

You will have sharp financial insight, clear communication, and remain calm under pressure—balancing strategic thinking with hands-on modelling to support smart, data-driven decisions. You’ll also:

• Use your financial expertise to offer valuable insights that inform decision-making and help drive meaningful change across the organisation
• Communicate relevant information clearly and confidently, making complex data easy to understand and act upon
• Build strong, reliable models in Excel that reflect real-world scenarios and support practical, data-driven planning
• Thoughtfully balance long-term strategic goals with short-term priorities, ensuring both are addressed with care and focus
• Manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines with calm efficiency, maintaining high standards and a positive approach under pressure

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Silver Covenant, Care Leaver Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Leader. Working together with our Employee Communities, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!