Finance Business Partner

Stanton House is partnering with a is a highly successful, Private Equity-backed global information and data services business. Following significant growth, including a major M&A transaction, our client was acquired last year by a market leading Private Equity fund. With strong revenues and EBITDA, the business is poised for its next phase of expansion, with ambitions to become a £1bn+ enterprise value platform.

To support this exciting trajectory, they are looking to appoint a Finance Business Partner. This role will work closely with operational teams, providing financial insight and strategic support to drive business performance.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified professional with post-qualification experience in commercial finance or FP&A to join a high-growth company at a pivotal moment, following new private equity investment. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping the business’s direction while collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders.

Key Requirements:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified, with PQE in a commercial finance/FP&A role
• Able to demonstrate close collaboration with operational teams, including examples of contributing to performance.
• Ownership of budgeting and forecasting for customer facing areas of the business, including associated costs
• A background in a commercial organisation, ideally in a subscription business
• Driving commercial decisions in partnership with stakeholders
• Commercially minded with a desire to build a strong understanding of our products and services
• A pro-active thinker and problem solver who will drive initiatives forward with creativity and pragmatism
• Good communicator who is comfortable and confident building rapport and having difficult conversations in a collaborative and constructive way, along with addressing a variety of audiences
• Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment and multitask, prioritise and see things to conclusion
• Strong commercial acumen, gravitas and the ability to confidently operate with senior stakeholders, managing relationships and influencing decisions
• An appropriate blend of being able to work independently but also know when and how to ensure upwards stakeholders are kept in the loop
• Comfortable spending most of their time embedded in and working with parts of the business
• Strong excel skills and ability to transform discussions around plans and strategies into tangible business cases/financial plans

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for providing commercial finance support to operational functions
• The successful candidate will be an essential and highly valued partner, meaning they will be extremely well integrated into these parts of the business
• Leading budgeting and quarterly reforecasting for specific areas, including all associated revenues and costs.
• Be able to explain trading and operational performance for their areas on a monthly basis, including providing month end commentary for the senior finance team, and support the teams they are working with on driving operational performance
• Development and ongoing management of KPI’s and other performance metrics including sales pipelines for both growth and retention revenue streams, sales productivity, customers retention rates, upsell and cross sell performance
• Working with the Head of Commercial Finance to give performance updates to the leadership teams
• No line management responsibility

If you meet the above-mentioned criteria, please apply below. Due to a high number of applicants, we shall unfortunately be unable to respond to all unsuccessful applicants