Competitive Salary | Full-time | Hybrid / Derby
Monday to Friday - 4 days on site 1 day remote, occasional travel
This is a high-impact, Senior Finance FP&A Business Partner role that goes beyond traditional reporting and budgeting. Advising executive and senior operational stakeholders youll play a pivotal role in shaping strategic and operational decision-making across the organisation, embedding financial insight into planning, investment decisions, and long-term sustainability.
Youll also be supporting a defined portfolio of operational services (including care homes and central functions such as HR and Marketing), while collaborating to ensure consistency, depth of insight, and continuous improvement across the finance function.
Why youll love working here
As well as the opportunity to influence strategy at a senior level, we offer a strong package to support your wellbeing and career:
* 30 days holiday per annum inclusive of bank holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme & competitive life cover
* Health cash plan: Affordable healthcare at your fingertips
* Career development: Support for continued professional development and leadership growth
* Employee Assistance Programme support when you need it most
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Key responsibilities
* Strategic Advisory & Decision Support:Provide clear commercial insights to leadership, using scenario modelling, and robust business cases to drive investment and lead sensitivity analysis across key initiatives such as service growth, redesign, and sustainable investment decisions and challenge assumptions constructivelyasking why to drive better decision-making
* Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead driver-based budgeting and rolling forecasts, continuously improving forecast accuracy and planning methodologies whilst collaborating across FP&A to ensure a consistent, joined-up approach.
* Performance Analysis & Value Creation: Deliver actionable monthly and quarterly reporting including translating complex data into concise, decision-focused narratives, identifying risks and opportunities through clear, data-driven narratives whilst developing and reefing KPIs to support evidence-based decision-making.
* Finance Business Partnering: Act as a trusted, partner to operational leaders, providing constructive challenge and pragmatic advice. Supporting stakeholders in understanding financial drivers, trade-offs, and implications, building financial capability across non-finance teams through coaching and guidance. Take a hands-on approach where neededthis is a roll up your sleeves role (including journals, POs, and ledger approvals when required).
* Leadership & Team Contribution: Mentor colleagues, drive team performance, and support cross-functional initiatives such as pricing strategies. Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency, and contribute to finance transformation, including automation, AI adoption, and new ways of working to elevate the impact and profile of finance across the organisation.
About you
This is an excellent step-up opportunity ideal for someone looking to accelerate their career; someone eager to learn, challenge, and grow over the next few years.
Essential Experience & Qualifications
* Qualified accountant (CIMA or equivalent)
* Significant post-qualification experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles
* Strong financial modelling, scenario analysis, and performance management experience.
* Experience in complex, operational or service-driven environments.
Technical Skills
* Advanced Excel skills (including lookups, SUMIFS, logical formulas, data tables, Power Query, and modelling).
* Experience with Power BI and automated reporting, ERP systems (e.g. MS Dynamics)
* Interest in modern FP&A tools, automation, and AI-driven insights (Datarails is advantageous)
Desirable
* Exposure to care sector funding models or regulated environments.
* Knowledge of charity reporting frameworks (e.g. SORP).
* Experience supporting system implementations or upgrades.
About Leonard Cheshire
We are one of the UKs most respected providers of care and supported living services. For over 75 years, weve supported disabled people to live, learn, and work as independently as possible.
Our values guide everything we do:
* Positive warm and empathetic, always looking to improve
* Proud strong-willed and driven in our beliefs
* Pioneering confident, creative, and forward-thinking
Ready to apply?
Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability and will support reasonable adjustments where possible.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals. Pre-employment checks and references will be required. xsngvjr
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.