Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Leicestershire (Hybrid - approx. 3 days on-site)Salary: £80-85k+ benefits

Alexander Daniels have been exclusively retained to recruit a Senior Finance Business Partner on behalf of a growing SME in Leicestershire. Reporting to the Managing Director and managing a small team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy, driving performance, and supporting an ambitious business through its next stage of growth.

This is a highly influential role partnering directly with senior leadership, with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across both operational and strategic decision-making.

As Senior Finance Business Partner, you will act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team - challenging assumptions, shaping business strategy, and enabling high-quality decisions through insightful financial analysis.

You will lead transformation within the finance function, championing improvements to processes, systems, reporting, and modelling. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking with operational delivery.

Business Partnering

• Build strong relationships with commercial and operational teams.
• Provide clear, insightful analysis to support decision-making.
• Challenge performance assumptions and help drive accountability.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Own budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling and performance reporting.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities to maximise value creation.
• Deliver clear, concise financial insight to non-financial stakeholders.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead finance's contribution to business transformation programmes.
• Identify opportunities for automation, improved processes, and smarter reporting.
• Support adoption of new systems, tools, and ways of working.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and support the development of finance team members.
• Promote a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and commercial focus.

You will thrive in this role if you are:

• Commercially astute with strong analytical capability.
• Confident influencing senior stakeholders, with excellent communication skills.
• Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced SME environment.
• Experienced in transformation, process improvement, or change leadership.
• Hands-on and solutions-driven, able to move between detail and strategy with ease.

Technical Skills

• Strong financial modelling and FP&A capability.
• Proficiency with ERP or finance systems.
• Excellent presentation, visualisation, and communication skills.
• Experience in consultancy, advisory, or regulated industries can be beneficial but is not essential.