Interim Finance Business Partner

The Interim Finance Business Partner (FMDI) helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by:
• Delivering strategic finance partnering throughout FMDI.
• Implementing new ways of working to drive income growth, ROI optimization, and financial sustainability.
• Providing robust budgeting, forecasting, and data-driven decision support.
• Developing and embedding appropriate skills and capabilities within the Financial Planning and Analysis team and FMDI.
For this role you will be based at our Hillfields site in Reading and expected to attend site 2/3 days per week.

We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people. 

More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential
• Professional Accountancy qualification.
• Evidence of continuous professional development with a focus on embracing financial best practice and understanding commercial trends in business partnering  
• Degree educated or equivalent experience (QCF level 6 / SQCF levels 9-10).
• A Level qualifications or equivalent to include Mathematics and numerate focused studies
• Sector Experience: Demonstrable strong expertise in a finance business partner role, preferably within a high volume sales and digital marketing organisation.
• Sales and Marketing Knowledge: Proven experience supporting sales and marketing teams with financial planning and ROI analysis.
• Forecasting Expertise: Proven experience with multi-year budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario modelling at a campaign level.
• Advanced Excel Proficiency: scenario analysis, large data experience and complex data manipulation
• Financial Modelling: working knowledge of with dynamic modelling for variety of outputs, expert modeller using excel functionality to deliver insight, 
• Systems Knowledge: Working knowledge of ERP systems (Unit4 preferred), CRM platforms, and BI tools
• Analytical Excellence: Strong analytical skills with ability to identify trends, variances, and deliver business insights and recommendations
• Balanced Scorecard:  Defining and reporting of KPIs to provide a balanced scorecard assessment and drive course corrections.
• Digital Marketing Knowledge: Demonstrable understanding of digital fundraising channels and marketing analytics.
• Communication Excellence: Ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to influence, challenge, and build trust across departments.
• Drive change: Proven ability to review existing processes based on their value contribution, devise and recommend improvements and imbed alternative ways of working that include challenging senior leaders or long-standing cross-matrix processes.
• Strategic Thinking: Commercial acumen to align financial plans with organisational strategy and growth objectives. 
• Collaborative Approach: Experience working effectively within cross-functional teams and matrix structures.
• Problem Solving:  Developing responses to issues or risk identified.

 

 

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

 

 

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

 

Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

 

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

 

You may have particular needs to be able to complete your application, If you would like support please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected]

 

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.