Finance Business Partner

Role: Finance Business Partner

Location: London (Hybrid)

Duraction: 6 month day rate contract

Rate: up to £475pd

We're partnering with a complex, fast-moving organisation operating at scale to appoint a Senior Operational Finance Business Partner. This is a highly visible role, working directly with senior operational and transformation leaders, providing insight, challenge and commercial support to inform decision-making and drive performance.

This opportunity will suit someone who enjoys operating close to the business, translating data into insight, and influencing outcomes in an environment where operational efficiency and delivery really matter.

The Role

As an Operational Finance Business Partner, you will support senior operational leaders with high-quality analysis, forecasting and commercial insight. You'll act as a trusted advisor, providing challenge and clarity around cost, productivity, and investment decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering insightful management and performance reporting to senior stakeholders
• Owning budgets, forecasts and medium-term plans for a significant cost base and capital spend
• Analysing operational performance, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities
• Providing robust challenge to cost performance and supporting corrective action
• Building and reviewing business cases to support investment, change and commercial decisions
• Supporting the production of board-level and senior leadership reporting
• Acting as a change agent, driving continuous improvement in processes and ways of working

What We're Looking For

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or ACCA), or equivalent experience
• Strong background in financial planning, analysis and business partnering
• Experience supporting operational or labour-intensive environments
• High level of commercial acumen with the ability to see the bigger picture
• Confident communicator, able to influence and challenge at all levels
• Advanced Excel and strong analytical capability
• Comfortable presenting complex information clearly to non-finance stakeholders

Why Apply?

• High-impact role with regular exposure to senior operational leadership
• Opportunity to shape decision-making in a large, operationally complex organisation
• Genuine business-partnering remit rather than purely reporting focused
• Environment that values insight, challenge and continuous improvement

If you're a commercially minded finance professional looking to step into a role with real operational influence, we'd welcome a conversation.