Finance Business Partner

London, England, United Kingdom

8/7/2025

Overview

Haymarket is seeking a dynamic and experienced professional to join our team as a Finance Business Partner. In this role, you'll be a key financial partner for one of our divisions, taking ownership of its financials while leading a small team. You'll drive efficiency through project management and provide crucial financial analysis to stakeholders, contributing directly to the division's success.

Reporting to the Director of Management Accounts, you will take ownership of the financials for a Division within Haymarket, manage various ongoing projects to improve efficiencies in systems and processes, as well as managing and developing a small team. You will be working with various stakeholders across the business, supporting them with analysis of all financial matters of the division and working to achieve project goals.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Autonomously take ownership for production of all monthly and annual reporting for a division
• Sit on the Executive Team of a Division, contributing to the effective running of that Division
• Manage and help train a small team to assist in your goals
• Collaborate with business managers to complete annual budgets and 3-year business plans
• Confidently present summary information to Divisional Board and other executive stakeholders across the group.
• Create and maintain successful working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Attend and credibly contribute to local and external business meetings.
• Continuously seek ways to improve internal financial reporting and control processes.
• Positively challenge business assumptions.
• Support the business in catering for uncertainty by performing scenario analysis where necessary.
  
  
  

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria

• Demonstrated success in a Finance Business Partner role with management responsibilities.
• Attained or working towards a relevant professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA etc).
• Experienced with Microsoft Office, operating at an advanced level within Excel.
• Extensive experience of seeking and implementing ways to improve on current practice.
• Must have a conscientious, accurate and methodical approach to work.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, e.g. articulate when communicating to partners and key staff, and able to present financial results to the function and wider business.
• Can demonstrate strong relationship building skills with ability to work with colleagues at all levels.
• A team player with a flexible and pro-active approach to work with the ability to work autonomously.
  
  
  

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.

To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

Why work with us?

Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions. From data and digital information solutions to live events, awards and professional education services.

Our benefits include:

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ days
• Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more
  
  
  

More About Working For Haymarket

Putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of our business we have aligned our current sustainability goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. Nothing beats face-time with our colleagues to promote creativity and collaboration, we’ve therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.

Haymarket is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.