Finance Business Partner

• Be at the heart of a world class sustainability project
• Strategic influence and cross functional impact

Our client is a global leader within the Energy & Natural Resources sector.

Join as a Finance Business Partner where you play a key role in enabling commercial success across the business by delivering high quality financial insight and operational support. By working closely with the commercial team, the FBP helps translate financial data into meaningful actions - supporting the delivery of the seeding programme and broader growth initiatives. The role also acts as a trusted advisor to the Head of Commercial Finance, ensuring financial clarity and accountability across all commercial activities, and is also responsible for driving the planning and budgeting process, managing cost performance, and evaluating financial outcomes to inform strategic decisions.

• Lead the financial input into the annual business planning cycle, ensuring alignment with operational and commercial goals.
• Provide cost modelling and financial advice to support strategic planning across production, logistics, and sales functions.
• Collaborate with the commercial team to build robust, data driven budgets.
• Present budget proposals to the Head of Commercial Finance, translating financials into KPIs and measurable objectives relevant to the sector.

• Conduct regular reviews with stakeholders across our operations, supply chain, and commercial teams to monitor and manage costs.
• Maintain monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy and visibility of spend across key areas such as raw materials, distribution, and overheads.
• Challenge assumptions and forecasts constructively to ensure financial discipline and value for money.

• Analyze financial performance, identifying key variances and their underlying drivers (e.g. input costs, yield changes, market pricing).
• Prepare clear variance analysis reports to support strategic reviews and decision making by the Head of Commercial Finance.
• Monitor trends and provide insights to improve margin and operational efficiency.

• Maintain a continuous view of performance against budget across all of the commercial function.
• Partner with commercial leadership to provide regular updates on budget tracking, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Support the development of reporting tools and dashboards tailored to the needs of a fast paced, product driven environment.

• Present financial information clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Support cross functional collaboration, especially between finance, sales, and operations.

Professional accountancy qualification from one of the recognized accounting bodies (ACA/ACCA).

• Must have industry experience.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong business acumen, along with the ability to influence at all levels.
• An understanding as to the type of data senior stakeholders would find beneficial.
• Exceptional numerical, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex information effectively at all levels.
• Excellent data presentation skills in excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong attention to detail.

• Competitive salary of GBP 70,000 - GBP 75,000.
• Additional bonus and benefits packing including private healthcare.
• Hybrid working and flexibility.