Finance Business Partner

Equifind are partnering with a leading UK manufacturing group producing high-performance products for industrial, automotive, engineering and consumer markets. With a footprint across multiple production sites and a rapidly expanding global customer base, our brand investment, product launches and commercial strategy play a critical role in driving long-term growth.

As Senior Finance Business Partner to the Chief Marketing Officer, you'll sit at the centre of both our Marketing and Finance teams, influencing how we deploy our multi-million-pound marketing and commercial growth budget.

You'll also play a key role in improving the effectiveness of our brand and digital activity, partnering on campaign ROI, pricing impact, channel performance and marketing attribution.What will I be doing?

• Analyse and map the main drivers behind all marketing and commercial spending across product, brand and digital activity.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles for Marketing, identifying impacts on margin, cashflow and profitability.
• Improve reporting accuracy through automation, streamlined processes and enhanced forecasting tools.
• Build strong working relationships with Marketing, Product and Sales teams, acting as their key financial partner.
• Provide challenge and commercial guidance to ensure spend aligns with strategic priorities and delivers measurable value.
• Review channel performance including acquisition cost, digital effectiveness and campaign ROI.
• Own month-end reporting for all marketing cost centres, ensuring clear visibility of variances.
• Support annual planning cycles, coordinating timelines and ensuring high-quality forecasts from Marketing teams.
• Partner with insight/analytics teams to interpret modelling outputs such as attribution, channel contribution and effectiveness.
• Lead performance discussions by highlighting risks, opportunities and recommended actions.

What you'll bring

• Strong business partnering experience, ideally supporting Marketing or Commercial teams.
• Confident interpreting digital channel performance, attribution methods and ROI metrics.
• Comfortable challenging senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making.
• Familiarity with automation tools, data-led reporting or emerging forecasting tech.
• Able to deliver accurate month-end outputs and operate within tight timeframes.
• High attention to detail combined with strong strategic and commercial judgement.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).

What's on offer?

• £80,000-£90,000 + bonus + benefits
• 3 days in office