Finance Business Partner

Location: Scottish Borders
Salary: £50,000-£60,000
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Working pattern: Fully onsite

A well-established business in the Scottish Borders is looking for a Finance Business Partner to provide financial insight and commercial support across its site operations.

Working closely with the Finance Director and site leadership team, you will help stakeholders understand performance, challenge assumptions and make better-informed decisions.

This opportunity could suit an experienced Finance Business Partner or a strong Management Accountant or Site Accountant ready to take on a broader, more commercially focused role.

• Prepare weekly and monthly results, including analysis of variances, KPIs and key business drivers.

• Support month-end, budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning.

• Partner with operational and commercial teams on pricing, costs, performance and investment decisions.

• Improve financial controls across expenditure, stock, inventory and cash-flow forecasting.

• Experience in a Management Accountant, Site Accountant, Finance Business Partner or similar role.

• Strong knowledge of management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

• Confident communicating financial information and constructively challenging stakeholders.

• Proactive, commercially minded and comfortable taking ownership in a site-based environment.

Manufacturing or site-based finance experience would be advantageous, particularly where this has involved stock or inventory control.

The business will consider CIMA or ACCA-qualified, part-qualified or MAAT-qualified candidates with the relevant experience and capability.

• Direct exposure to the Finance Director and senior site stakeholders.

• A broad role combining financial reporting, commercial support and operational improvement.

• The opportunity to influence decision-making and drive meaningful change.

• Genuine progression for a Management Accountant ready to move into business partnering.

This is a fully onsite position in the Scottish Borders due to the close partnership required with site-based teams.