Finance Business Partner

Assystem Group; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy and infrastructure firm is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join their team in Derby on a 6-12 month contract. The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with strong financial modelling skills and proven experience in business case development. Responsibilities include leading financial planning, conducting detailed analysis, and providing training to enhance financial acumen across the team. This role is vital for ensuring strategic alignment with key business initiatives.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with a business focus.
• Proven experience in creating business cases for funding.
• Security clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial planning and budgeting processes.
• Conduct financial modelling for business cases.
• Partner on bid proposals ensuring strategic alignment.
• Embed cost ownership and control within the team.
• Provide financial training to the delivery business unit.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Strong financial modelling and analysis skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to connect external changes to financial outcomes

Experience in M&A transactions

Job description

Finance Business Partner

Assystem Energy & Infrastructure is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner to work at our customer’s site in Derby on a 6‑12 month contract basis.

Contract Details

• Contract duration: 6‑12 months
• Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella – INSIDE IR35
• Hours: 37 hours per day (overtime achievable)
• Location: Derby

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the financial planning, budgeting and strategic review process, presenting agile driver‑based forecasts to the senior management team.
• Conduct detailed financial modelling to assess standalone and integrated business cases, to support business plans for Investment Committee, partnerships, and external funding providers.
• Partner with the Heads of Programmes and M&A on bid/partnership proposals, ensuring there is strategic alignment with the Novel Nuclear plan, maturity in the financial basis of estimates, and a sound business case that is acceptable for the terms of the bid/partnership.
• Embed a culture of cost ownership and control, ensuring all spend is governed and in line with approvals and contract terms.
• Provide objective challenge to colleagues to help deliver financial commitments and ensure fair and balanced messaging to senior stakeholders.
• Provide financial training to the newly formed delivery business unit, promoting financial awareness and business acumen in decision making as a key driver in value creation for the business.

Qualifications & Experience

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Business focussed, with the ability to quickly connect external changes to financial outcomes to drive value and growth.
• Proven experience in working in a newly established business, generating, and presenting business cases for funding.
• Strong financial modelling and analysis skills.
• Previous experience of M&A transactions is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Security clearance (required).

While we encourage applications from all nationalities, Assystem within the UK is subject to security and export control restrictions due to the nature of work to be undertaken. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit the roles you can perform for the organisation.

Assystem is committed to equal treatment of candidates and promotes and fosters all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter!