Senior Finance Business Partner

British Red Cross

About The Position

The Senior Finance Business Partner (UK Operations) plays a crucial role in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making across UK operations. The role provides strategic financial guidance to business leaders, collaborates with cross-functional teams, analyses financial data, and provides insights that support business objectives. It contributes to business planning and budgeting, develops business cases, advises senior managers, and helps implement the function’s strategy and business plan.

Requirements

Highly computer literate.
Ability to use compelling storytelling to influence stakeholders.
Ability to use data to derive insight and inform decision-making.
Strong collaboration skills and demonstrable experience working positively with centres of excellence across an organisation.
Experience influencing senior and challenging stakeholders and decision-makers.
Experience and understanding of the not-for-profit sector.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of computerised financial systems, such as Anaplan and Agresso, and the Microsoft suite.
Experience of NHS contracting and/or grant management.

Responsibilities

Contribute to annual business plans for an assigned area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy.
Recommend financial and headcount budgets.
Translate business objectives into defined business cases, costs, and schedules to support business growth.
Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at business-unit or regional level to support implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
Lead and communicate actions needed to implement the function’s strategy and business plan within the team.
Lead and develop a highly skilled professional team to achieve consistently high performance.

Benefits

Flexible working, including remote and hybrid working, flexitime, compressed hours, and job sharing.
36 days’ annual leave, including bank holidays, with the option to buy extra leave.
Contributory pension of up to 6%.
Recognition platform through which managers can reward great work with retail vouchers.
Discounts through Reward Gateway, Blue Light Card, Tickets for Good, and other providers.
Wellbeing support, including Peer Supporters, CiC (EAP), and the Headspace app.
Career and learning opportunities.
Access to a free will-writing service.
Death-in-service benefit: a tax-free lump sum paid to a beneficiary in the event of the employee’s death.
Cycle2Work bicycle-leasing scheme.