Senior Finance Business Partner

Liverpool £75,000-£80,000 Hybrid working

If you're a qualified, experienced Senior Finance Business Partner who excels at influencing C-suite leaders and turning complex operational performance into clear commercial insight, this role offers the scale, challenge and strategic impact you're looking for.

This is a high-visibility position supporting a large, multi-contract national division delivering people-focused programmes across the UK. You'll partner directly with senior operational leaders, shaping financial performance, driving efficiency, and guiding strategic decision-making at executive level.

The Opportunity

As Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll take ownership of divisional financial performance, providing sharp analysis, forward-looking insight and commercially grounded recommendations. You'll be the bridge between finance and operations - challenging, influencing and ensuring leadership has the clarity needed to make the right decisions.

Key areas of focus include:

• Understanding financial performance across multiple regional contracts
• Diagnosing profitability decline despite revenue growth
• Analysing volume trends, outcome performance and delivery efficiency
• Reviewing contract mix and identifying margin pressures
• Assessing staffing models, productivity and operational effectiveness
• Highlighting risks around underperformance, delivery capacity and sustainability
• Presenting clear, actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders

What You'll Be Working With

• Revenue growth driven by higher participant volumes
• Declining job-outcome success rates
• Expansion into lower-margin contracts
• Increased delivery staff costs and reduced caseload efficiency
• Higher turnover and reliance on temporary staff
• Rising overheads from central support, digital investment and bid activity

You'll translate these dynamics into a compelling narrative for senior leadership - identifying what's working, what isn't, and what must change.

What You'll Bring

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, operationally complex environment and is confident influencing at executive level.

You'll need:

• CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualification
• Strong experience as a Senior Finance Business Partner
• Proven ability to work with C-suite stakeholders and challenge constructively
• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, commercial analysis and performance reporting
• Ability to interpret operational data and convert it into strategic insight
• Strong communication skills - able to simplify complexity and drive action
• A proactive, commercially minded approach with a focus on outcomes

You'll be stepping into a role with genuine strategic influence, where your insight will directly shape divisional performance and future direction.