Finance Business Partner - Consumer Brands

Finance Business Partner

London (Hybrid - 3 days office)

£ pa + car allowance + up to 30% bonus, Pension, private healthcare

We're partnering with a global, complex, consumer-led organisation operating across multiple brands and geographies to appoint a Finance Business Partner into a high-impact Group role.

This position reports directly to a commercial, influential Group Finance Director and plays a key role in strengthening cost discipline, transparency and value creation across central functions.

The role

• Act as the senior finance partner to Group functions (e.g. HR, IT, Legal, Strategy, Transformation)
• Own Group overhead budgeting, forecasting and rolling forecast processes
• Deliver clear, insightful monthly reporting with forward-looking commentary
• Support investment cases, headcount planning and transformation initiatives
• Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and cost visibility
• Embed strong cost governance and identify efficiency opportunities
• Develop dashboards, KPIs and management information for senior stakeholders
• Support finance process improvement, automation and data quality initiatives
• Own the group overhead budget
• Manage the working capital optimisation

Over time, the role will evolve from strong cost control into proactive commercial partnering and value optimisation.

About you

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong experience in Finance Business Partnering or Commercial Finance roles
• Proven ability to partner senior stakeholders across central functions
• Commercial, intellectually curious and confident challenging constructively
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, modelling and cost-centre management capability
• Digitally minded, with experience improving systems, reporting and data quality

Desirable:

• Experience with Power BI, OneStream or similar tools
• Exposure to automation, AI or finance transformation
• Experience in multi-country, matrixed organisations
• Experience with managign workign capital

Why apply?

• High-visibility Group role with Exec-level exposure
• Strong development runway under an impactful Group FD
• Broad remit across a complex international organisation
• Highly competitive total package and hybrid working