Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Coventry (CV6 5LZ)

Contract Type: Permanent


Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday, 08:00-17:00


Salary: £60,000 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 25 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About The Job

You’ll have an important part to play, reporting directly to the Financial Controller and sitting at the heart of our financial operations across key growth areas. As we expand and diversify beyond our internal combustion engine portfolio into exciting new sectors, you will be instrumental in ensuring robust financial controls are implemented and maintained.

Here at Unipart, we don’t just have a way of working - we have The Unipart Way. It empowers every team member to achieve personal and professional goals to a world-class level through our ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development programme.

As Senior Finance Business Partner, you will drive plant productivity and profitability while leading and managing the site finance team, including Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), ensuring the financial engine of the business runs smoothly and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide divisional leadership with weekly financial updates and ensure plant management receives accurate, timely KPIs, holding them accountable for operational performance

Deliver accurate monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and balance sheet reconciliations

Support commercial activities with accurate sales and margin data, interrogate costings, and assist in pricing strategies

Develop and maintain product costing and inventory valuations, including annual standard cost updates

Create costings for new growth products and implement them in the ERP system

Proactively identify and evaluate cost-saving, profit-enhancing, and process improvement opportunities

Maintain monthly cash flow forecasts and support group treasury with additional analysis

Manage site Opex and Capex projects, ensuring robust investment appraisals and post-project reviews

Lead and develop AP & AR Finance staff, ensuring motivation, training, and performance standards are met

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d excel in this role:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with a relevant finance or accounting degree
• Proven experience leading and developing teams
• Strong financial reporting expertise and advanced Excel skills

Ability to communicate and build relationships across all levels

Strong commercial awareness and analytical ability

Extensive experience as a Finance Business Partner in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

Working knowledge of VAT, Corporation Tax, RDEC, and UK GAAP

Experience with manufacturing ERP systems (IFS desirable)

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience of the following: Finance Business Partner - Senior Level, Lead Finance Business Partner, Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager, Commercial Finance Manager, Finance Strategy Partner, Senior Management Accountant, Financial Controller – Business Partnering, etc.