ACA-qualified Finance Business Partner with 15+ years’ experience delivering commercial challenge, investment governance, and financial clarity to senior leadership teams within large, complex global organisations. Not a back-office finance professional — a genuine business partner who gets into the detail, builds the case, and influences the decision.
Career spanning Big Four practice, regulated utilities, and global technology businesses — with a consistent track record of making complex financial problems simple for the people who need to act on them.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Specialist in large-scale supplier negotiations and commercial deal structuring — directly supported multi-year, nine-figure global agreements delivering tens of millions in cost avoidance, with CFO-level sign-off and cross-regional coordination.
- Owned end-to-end financial governance across major transformation programmes — modelling, tracking, and reporting benefits across complex multi-business-unit portfolios at steering committee and executive level.
- Regulated industry experience — led Ofgem regulatory financial reporting across c.£140m of costs, with full accountability for compliance, budgeting, and performance commentary.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt — drove meaningful automation and efficiency improvements with quantifiable financial benefit.
- Reduced month-end close by a third through process improvement within a complex global cost base.
- Strong people development track record — line management, graduate coaching, and finance training delivered to 50+ non-finance colleagues.
- ACA qualified via Big Four, with earlier career experience spanning audit, group financial reporting, and management accounting across listed businesses.
Best suited for: Senior Finance Business Partner or Finance Business Partnering Lead within a large, complex or globally connected organisation. The right hire for a leadership team that wants a commercially confident, analytically strong partner — someone who will challenge the business, own the numbers, and deliver clear financial thinking at pace.
