About Baringa
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.
You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.
As a Certified B Corporation®, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.
We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.
Our Finance team are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join the team on an FTC basis.
As a Sector Finance Business Partner at Baringa, you will be a proactive and engaging finance professional, passionate about client service and relationship management. You will drive commercial value by delivering timely, data-driven insights that inform strategic decisions, while also supporting ad hoc projects and bids. Additionally, you will support the FP&A team in delivery of forecasting and planning for the sector to ensure strong financial oversight and future readiness.
What You Will Be Doing
- Act as the visible 'face of finance,' building strong relationships with sector leadership and teams while partnering with sector and business unit leads to drive commercial value.
- Support the FP&A team in delivery of forecasting and planning for the sector, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial targets
- Explain financial performance by delivering impactful insights and drawing connections between financial data and sector strategies. Ask key “so what…” questions to inform decision-making
- Conduct client reviews, including deep dives into margin and bill rates, to enhance commercial outcomes
- Support scenario and sensitivity analysis to inform strategic planning and mitigate risks
- Ensure key messages land when presenting finance to non-finance individuals, helping drive better understanding and engagement
- Build commercial awareness in the sectors by delivering training, particularly for project managers. Emphasise the commercial impact of operational excellence across project lifecycles (e.g., client & project setup, PO setup, time recording, fixed price revenue recognition, WIP, invoicing, and cash collection)
- Prepare and review sector and BU highlight emails, management account commentary, and commercial executive pack inputs
- Review BU expenditure, T&M, and capped T&M to identify risks and opportunities for optimisation
- Collaborate with business partners across Baringa Enablement (People, Staffing & Utilisation, Sector Business Managers, Legal, etc.) to deliver a premium business partnering service
Your Skills And Experience
- Qualified accountant (5+ years post qualified)
- Technical Skills & Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of accounting processes gained in professional services organisations
- Commercially focused approach
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Resilient & committed, able to operate in a fast paced and challenging environment
- Confident and mature stakeholder management skills
What a Career At Baringa Will Give You
Putting People First.
Benefits
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
Diversity and Inclusion.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.
Using business as a force for good.
At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our B Corp™ certification shows that we’ve met and held ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.
We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign: Economics of Kindness . You can see some additional recent impact work by clicking here .
Join us
All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .
