Finance business partner

Finance Business Partner

Spalding, Lincolnshire

£65,000 – 70,000 plus car allowance and substantial bonus (80 – 83k package potential).

Hybrid working, 3 days on site minimum.

About the Role

We’re looking for a commercially minded "Site" Finance Business Partner to play a key role in driving site profitability and performance. Acting as a trusted partner to the Site General Manager, you’ll own full site financial performance — from customer profitability and operational efficiency to strategic decision-making.

You’ll work closely with the Finance Director and executive teams to identify and deliver opportunities that enhance profitability, improve processes, and promote continuous improvement across the site. This is a highly visible role where your insight, influence, and financial expertise will directly shape business outcomes.

Job Purpose:

• Partnering with site GM, owning full site profitability including customer profitability and operational performance.
• Identifying and working with key finance and exec members to land and implement strategic opportunities.
• Overseeing the completion of accurate reporting and presenting key financial data during the monthly business reporting cycle for the site.
• You will help to support the Events plan to ensure profit maximisation through financial support and challenge.
• The individual will develop and maintain strong relationships, liaising cross-functionally and demonstrate a continuous improvement approach to establish and enhance existing systems and processes, whilst providing critical support and thinking to key stakeholders. Sharing best practice with other site leads and promoting a what good looks like mindset.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Business partner the site GM, support them with added value financial information around true customer/product profitability, gap analysis etc
• Challenge margins on weekly profitability, ensuring a true & fair representation of trading delivery
• Support the GM and Commercial leads for the site in understanding and interrogating weekly performance reporting.
• Building finance acumen amongst other areas of the site/business using “finance for non-finance managers” mindset to enable them to interpret and understand sometimes complex data to make informed decisions.
• Support the GM and Operational leads in understanding and interrogating weekly operational performance across both labour, waste and inventory management.
• Key finance lead during monthly business reviews for the site.
• Help the business make smarter, profit-maximising decisions, using influencing skills and data to drive cost efficiencies
• Ensure all costings are signed off and confirmed in good time for launch
• Ensuring accurate financial data around forecasts and budgets in line with the timetables to deliver correctly forecasted commercial profitability.
• Identifying, maintaining and monitoring risks and opportunities arising across the site
• Maintain an effective level of communication with all business units at all levels

Skills and experience required:

• Qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a commercial mindset
• Excellent Excel skills and ability to interpret complex data
• Proven ability to influence, challenge, and communicate effectively across all levels
• Confident working in a fast-paced environment, able to prioritise under pressure
• Self-motivated with a positive attitude and collaborative approach