Finance Business Partner – FP&A Finance

Tombola Ltd; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading entertainment company is seeking a Finance Business Partner (FP&A) to join their Finance team in Sunderland. This hybrid role involves analyzing costs and spending, partnering with operational teams, and influencing data-driven decisions. Candidates should have proven experience in finance partnering, strong Excel skills, and an analytical mindset. The position requires commuting to the Sunderland office three days a week. Competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Finance Business Partnering or FP&A role.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence all levels.
• Advanced Excel skills, building models and driving efficiencies.
• Curious, analytical mindset, able to ask the right questions.
• Experience working with large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Deliver in-depth analysis of costs and spending.
• Challenge departmental spending against budgets.
• Partner with teams for planning, forecasting, and reviews.
• Support month-end close process with accounting team.
• Identify trends, risks, discrepancies, and opportunities.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and data modeling.
• Build and refine financial models linking activities to outcomes.
• Produce insightful financial reports for management.
• Design and maintain dashboards and KPIs.
• Proactively anticipate future financial needs.

Skills

Finance Business Partnering

Stakeholder Management

Advanced Excel

Analytical Mindset

Data Insight Translation

Job description

Finance Business Partner – FP&A

Location: Sunderland (Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office)

We’re looking for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner (FP&A) to join our Finance team and play a key role in shaping financial insight, forecasting, and decision-making across the business.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys getting under the skin of the numbers, partnering closely with operational teams, and turning complex data into clear, actionable insight for senior stakeholders.

The role

Reporting into the Head of FP&A, you’ll act as a bridge between Finance and the wider business — improving cost transparency, strengthening forecasting, and helping leaders make better, data-led decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering in-depth analysis of costs and spend using internal systems

• Challenging departmental spend against agreed budgets

• Partnering with operational teams to inform planning, forecasting, and performance reviews

• Supporting the month-end close process alongside the accounting team

• Identifying trends, risks, discrepancies, and opportunities within financial data

• Improving forecasting accuracy through better data capture and modelling

• Building and refining financial models that link operational activity to financial outcomes

• Producing clear, insightful financial reports and commentary for senior management

• Designing and maintaining dashboards and KPIs to track financial performance

• Proactively anticipating future financial needs and potential issues

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in a Finance Business Partnering or FP&A role

• Strong stakeholder management skills — confident challenging and influencing at all levels

• Advanced Excel capability, with experience building models and driving efficiencies

• A curious, analytical mindset with the confidence to ask the right questions

• Comfortable working with large data sets and translating them into meaningful insight

Working pattern

This role is hybrid, with 3 days per week based in our Sunderland office, so candidates must be able to commute regularly.