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About the Role
As our Group Functions Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll combine strong financial accounting expertise with a hands-on approach to improving financial reporting, data integrity, and business performance. Working closely with senior stakeholders, including the CFO and CEO, you'll bring greater clarity, consistency, and insight to financial decision-making across our central functions.
Responsibilities
- Leading monthly reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, providing clear analysis of performance, spend, and variances.
- Ensuring accurate month-end reporting, P&L, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls.
- Improving financial systems, data structures, and reporting, identifying and resolving issues at their source.
- Partnering with Function Heads to challenge expenditure, review performance, and support financial accountability.
- Working with Shared Services and wider finance teams to improve processes, data quality, and reporting efficiency.
Requirements
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification, with a solid financial accounting background.
- Strong month-end, management accounting, P&L, and balance sheet experience.
- Great analytical and data skills, with experience of SAP, CXO, Power BI or similar financial systems.
- A hands-on approach to improving reporting, processes, and data accuracy.
- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge stakeholders.
- Curiosity and a genuine passion for making things work better.
Skills
- Financial accounting
- Financial reporting
- Data integrity
- Business performance analysis
- Monthly reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- P&L
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Financial controls
- Financial systems improvement
- Data structures
- Process improvement
- Expenditure challenge
- Performance review
- Financial accountability
- Data quality
- Reporting efficiency
- Analytical skills
- Data skills
- SAP
- CXO
- Power BI
- Relationship building
- Communication skills
- Influencing
- Challenging stakeholders
Location
- London (Paddington)
- Macclesfield
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Occasional travel to UK and European offices
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification
Benefits
- Highly visible opportunity to shape and improve financial reporting within a global business
- Exposure to senior leadership
- Chance to develop commercial business partnering and FP&A capabilities
- Career progression opportunities within a global organisation
- Exposure to international projects and change initiatives
- Supportive, inclusive culture where your development matters
- Opportunity to help shape the next chapter of our business
About the Company
- Bodycote is the world's leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services.
- A global team that values collaboration, embraces innovation, and is committed to continuously improving how we work and serve our customers.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of characteristics protected by local law, including (where applicable) gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and ethnic origin. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.