Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner | London | Digital Content

Looking for a finance role where your analysis helps shape product decisions, pricing and future growth?

Altum Consulting is exclusively partnering with an international content and information business to recruit a Finance Business Partner in London. With an expanding digital product portfolio, our client is looking for someone who can combine strong accounting fundamentals with the commercial insight to support better business decisions.

This opportunity would suit a fully or part-qualified accountant with around 3-5 years of experience in finance business partnering or commercial finance, ideally gained within a large, fast-paced organisation.

Role & Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Business Partnering, you will take responsibility for management accounting and reporting for a digital business area whilst supporting the wider finance team with analysis. You will become a subject matter expert and develop a detailed understanding of how the business operates, in turn helping colleagues interpret performance and evaluate commercial opportunities.

Your remit will span:

• Commercial analysis and product performance.
• Contribute to profit and loss assessments for new digital products, helping establish their financial viability.
• Support pricing decisions, bids, proposals and commercial contract reviews, alongside gross margin analysis.
• Planning for the future.
• Support budgeting, re-forecasting and longer-term strategic planning, including preparing financial information for executive and Board presentations.
• Produce clear, useful performance reporting.
• Create business-unit reporting packs that explain variances against plan, with backup support for weekly revenue updates.
• Translate financial results into commentary that stakeholders can understand and act on.
• Strong accounting and financial control.
• Strengthen controls across accounting processes and take interim responsibility for relevant balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring reliable information underpins commercial analysis.
• Collaboration across teams and external partners.
• Work with project teams and subscription management providers to prepare half-yearly royalty statements and resolve associated payment queries.
• Identify and execute more efficient ways of working.
• Improve forecasting processes through greater efficiency and automation, contribute to month-end improvements and support additional finance projects.

Education & Experience

• Fully or part-qualified in ACA, ACCA, CIMA or AAT
• 3 years of experience working in a commercial finance, finance business partnering role
• Existing, technical accounting knowledge
• Previous experience working within a large finance environment, producing meaningful analysis and identifying opportunities to improve reporting or month-end processes
• Strong data manipulation and analytical skills
• Confidence working with large data-sets and knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Power BI
• Strong communication skills with fluency is English is essential
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to colleagues with different levels of finance knowledge.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to take ownership of your work and be comfortable collaborating across teams and divisions.
• Capable of identifying an opportunity to improve a process and follows it through, while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail

Why consider this opportunity?

This is a chance to broaden your commercial finance experience without stepping away from hands-on accounting. You will contribute to new product assessments, support strategic planning and help improve the quality and efficiency of financial reporting, giving you exposure to both day-to-day performance and longer-term business decisions.

Apply with your CV or contact Erin Wilson for a confidential conversation about the opportunity.