Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Lincoln

Full time | Permanent

Commercially minded, analytical and confident working with operational teams?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business within the food and agriculture sector, where you'll play a key role in connecting Finance with the wider business and helping teams make better commercial decisions.

Working closely with Business Unit owners across Farming, CEA, Property and Central Functions, you'll provide financial insight, challenge and support to improve performance, manage risk and identify opportunities.

If you're someone who enjoys getting under the skin of the numbers, building strong relationships and turning financial information into meaningful insight, this could be the role for you.

What's on offer?

• Permanent, full time position

• Key role within the Business Finance team

• Close working relationship with senior stakeholders and operational teams

• Opportunity to influence commercial and operational decision making

• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, investment appraisal and business performance

• Opportunity to improve reporting, processes and financial systems

What's the job?

You'll act as a key link between Finance and the wider business, helping Business Unit owners understand their financial performance and make informed decisions.

You'll provide analysis and constructive challenge across revenue, costs, margin and cash, while supporting budgets, forecasts, business cases and investment decisions.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Acting as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Business Unit owners

• Building strong relationships across the business and providing commercial insight

• Supporting annual budgets, forecasting and medium term planning

• Analysing business performance, trends, risks and opportunities

• Preparing monthly Business Performance Review information and clear variance commentary

• Helping teams understand the drivers behind revenue, costs, margins and cash

• Assessing operational efficiency, unit economics and cost structures

• Preparing financial models, business cases and investment appraisals

• Supporting scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis

• Developing and improving reporting packs, dashboards and KPIs

• Challenging existing reporting and helping move towards more forward looking analysis

• Supporting non finance teams with budgets and financial accountability

• Working closely with FP&A, Controlling and senior Finance leadership

• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, automate reporting and strengthen controls

• Supporting improvements to ERP systems, data and financial tools

• Ensuring financial information is accurate, relevant and delivered on time

This is a hands on business partnering role where you'll need to be comfortable working with detail while understanding the wider commercial picture. You'll need to communicate confidently with operational stakeholders and be prepared to challenge constructively when needed.

What do I need?

• Fully qualified accountant with CIMA, ACCA or ACA, or equivalent commercial finance experience

• Nearly qualified candidates may be considered where qualification is expected within six months

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand and explain the story behind the numbers

• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with complex data

• Experience in a Finance Business Partnering or similar commercial finance role

• Experience supporting operational or commercial teams

• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills

• Commercial mindset with a proactive and solutions focused approach

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast moving environment

• Confidence to challenge constructively and drive accountability

• Experience within a capital intensive or manufacturing environment, with an understanding of inventory and production costs

Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, NetSuite or Sage Intacct would be beneficial, as would Power BI or other data visualisation experience. Experience within agriculture or food production would also be useful.

Most importantly, you'll need to be someone who can simplify complexity, build strong relationships and turn financial information into insight that helps operational teams perform better.

What's next?

If you're looking for your next opportunity in Finance Business Partnering and want to join a business where you'll have genuine responsibility and the opportunity to influence commercial decisions, we'd love to hear from you. If interested, please get in touch on (phone number removed) or alternatively on email: (url removed)