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Job Title: Finance Business Partner (Fixed term contract - 6 months)
Location: Milton Keynes OR Covent Garden, London (Hybrid)
About the role:
We are hiring a Finance Business Partner to support divisional finance leadership with high-quality financial insight, planning, and performance reporting.
This role sits at the heart of financial decision-making, contributing across budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, KPI reporting, and ad-hoc analysis. You'll also support finance transformation initiatives, including work linked to a new ERP implementation, helping improve data quality, systems, and ways of working.
This is a strong opportunity for a qualified finance professional who enjoys combining core FP&A delivery with project-based improvement work in a complex B2B environment.
Key Responsibilities:
* Deliver insightful financial reporting and KPIs to business stakeholders, highlighting opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimisation.
* Support short- and long-term planning processes including budgets, forecasts, outlooks, and long-range plans in line with Group timetables.
* Contribute to monthly and periodic performance reporting, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and meaningful commentary.
* Drive continuous improvement in financial data, processes, and systems to enhance insight and efficiency.
* Partner with Group FP&A, Tax, and Financial Control teams to ensure divisional activity aligns with Group standards and statutory requirements.
* Support ad-hoc financial analysis and improvement projects, including workstreams related to ERP implementation.
* Provide flexible support to the Divisional FP&A Lead, contributing to wider Finance Leadership priorities as required.
To be successful in the role, you will have:
* A professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
* Solid experience in FP&A, with exposure to business partnering and/or financial control.
* Strong understanding of B2B business models, KPIs, and financial drivers.
* Experience producing insightful reports and performance dashboards, ideally using Power BI or similar tools.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into actionable insight.
* Confidence working with senior finance and business stakeholders.
* Experience improving processes, systems, or reporting in complex organisations.
Desirable:
* Experience working in large, global or matrixed organisations.
* Involvement in an ERP implementation or major finance transformation programme.
* Experience presenting analysis or recommendations to senior leaders.
Grow your career and expand your skills and knowledge. At BSI, we offer opportunities to work across industries and across the globe. You'll benefit from the different perspectives and experiences of your international colleagues, as well as ongoing training and development. We offer flexible working, as well as 27 days' annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution, car allowance (dependent on role), income protection, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
*Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy
Together, we are building an organisation that is ready to meet the challenges ahead. Grow your career as you help us shape what comes next.
We exist to have a positive impact. Our people influence international thinking and action on important issues. Our 86,000 customers are based in 193 countries across the globe.
Now we're taking on society's biggest challenges. We're developing standards and guidelines that will help our customers get to net zero, and we're defining the way new technologies such as AI impact all our lives.
We're focused on our future – and we're looking for people who want to grow with us as we take on the challenges of tomorrow. At BSI, you'll find a workplace where everyone can flourish and thrive, where innovation is encouraged and where learning is part of your everyday. You'll contribute to work that shapes industries and enhances lives – and you'll take pride in what you do.
We're looking for passionate people who want to make a difference in a purpose-led organisation. If that sounds like you, apply now. Together, we can help create a better society and a more sustainable world.
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About Us
BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.
Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.
Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.
Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society's critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.
BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.