Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering

Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering

Fintec Recruit are currently supporting our client with the recruitment of a Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering. This is a hybrid working role, 2 days per week in the office based in London.

This role leads the commercial finance agenda partnering with senior stakeholders to strengthen costing, modelling, forecasting, reporting, and systems improvement, with a strong focus on bid support, margin and cashflow optimisation, and high-quality reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial finance support across project and income generation activity
• Provide insight on profitability, cost recovery and cashflow, highlighting risks and actions
• Partner with Business Development and Fundraising on financial bid inputs, from creation to submission
• Own and improve the project costing model, ensuring governance and timely sign-off
• Deliver bespoke modelling for complex commissioning requirements, including cost impact of required change
• Produce monthly project reporting, analyse variances, and support budget holders to manage performance
• Lead forecasting to end of contract and consolidate into the rolling organisational forecast
• Improve ledger integrity for projects, including journals/adjustments where required
• Deliver accurate commissioner and donor reporting to deadlines, escalating issues early
• Support systems improvements (self serve reporting, dashboards, coding accuracy)
• Complete financial due diligence as needed

Key Requirements Essential

• Proven business partnering with non-finance stakeholders
• Qualified accountant
• Strong track record of systems and process improvement
• Advanced Excel and confident handling large datasets and reporting outputs
• Experience in financial modelling and supporting bids/tenders
• Clear communicator able to translate finance into practical decisions

Desirable

• Experience in charity and/or non profit environments
• Exposure to Sage or similar reporting tools/dashboards
• Experience supporting regional/national service delivery models

Full details of the Head of Commercial Finance & Business Partnering role is available on application. To apply please submit your current CV or apply via our FINTEC recruit website. INDH