Finance Business Partner

Role & responsibilities

1. Business Performance & Insights

• Own financial performance reviews for the assigned business/function, covering revenue, margins, costs, profitability and key business KPIs.

• Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods; identify key drivers behind variances.

• Highlight significant deviations and recommend clear corrective actions.

• Develop forward-looking views on risks, opportunities and business performance.

• Simplify complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for business leaders.

2. Business Planning & Forecasting

• Partner with business teams on annual operating plans, budgets and periodic forecasts.

• Challenge assumptions and ensure plans are supported by robust business drivers and economics.

• Develop scenario analysis and sensitivities to support strategic decisions.

• Track delivery against agreed plans and proactively flag emerging gaps.

3. Commercial & Strategic Finance

• Evaluate business cases, new initiatives, investments and strategic opportunities from a financial and commercial perspective.

• Assess ROI, payback, profitability and long-term value creation.

• Identify key growth levers and opportunities to improve business economics.

• Challenge decisions where financial returns, costs or assumptions are not aligned with business objectives.

• Support leadership in making economics-based decisions.

4. Cost & Profitability Management

• Identify key cost drivers and opportunities for cost optimization.

• Partner with functional teams to establish appropriate cost guardrails and improve cost accountability.

• Track initiatives to deliver sustainable savings and productivity improvements.

• Drive focus on profitability / Store unit economics

5. Cross-functional Business Partnership

• Build strong relationships with business, operations, marketing, supply chain, HR and other functional leaders.

• Participate in key business reviews and provide an independent finance perspective.

• Influence stakeholders through data, insights and sound commercial judgement.

• Encourage ownership of financial outcomes across the organization.

Preferred candidate profile

• 3 -7 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, Commercial Finance, Finance Business Partnering or a similar role.

• Strong understanding of P&L, business drivers, profitability and financial modelling.

• Experience working closely with business teams and functional leaders.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to translate numbers into business insights and actions.

• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to challenge assumptions.

• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous and highly cross-functional environment.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modelling; experience with BI/visualisation tools is preferred.