Interim Finance Business Partner

Working closely with leadership and key decision-makers, you will lead the budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and delivering clear, insightful analysis to support better decision-making.\nYou will play a key role in challenging assumptions, identifying opportunities to enhance both revenue and profitability, and supporting important commercial activities such as pricing, tenders, investment cases and strategic hires. Alongside this, you will drive financial discipline across areas including work in progress, billing, debt management and cost control, while delivering reporting that improves visibility and accountability across the business.\nIn addition, you will partner closely with business development teams to maximise client profitability and commercial outcomes, while leading and developing a small commercial finance team and fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders and contribute directly to the strategic direction and financial success of the business.\n\nWhat you'll need to succeed \nWe are looking for a commercially focused finance professional who can make an immediate impact, operate with credibility and confidence in a senior stakeholder environment.

You will be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified and bring strong commercial acumen, with a proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders effectively.You will have advanced analytical and financial modelling capability, combined with excellent communication skills that allow you to present complex financial information in a clear and accessible way. A track record of driving business performance and delivering measurable results is essential, alongside experience of managing and developing team members.You should be a strong problem-solver who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment and able to deal with complexity and ambiguity. Experience within a professional services environment would be advantageous, as would an understanding of key financial performance drivers such as utilisation, margins and working capital.

Familiarity with financial planning and reporting tools is also desirable.\n\nWhat you'll get in return \nThis is an excellent opportunity to join a leading professional services firm. While the role is offered on an interim basis, there is potential for it to become permanent. A competitive day rate or fixed-term contract package is available.\n\nWhat you need to do now \n\nIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.\nIf this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.\n\nHays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

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