Job Description

FP&A Business Partner

Location: Sheffield or Uxbridge Office.

Hybrid role : days a week in office.

Purpose of the Role

The FP&A Business Partner acts as a trusted commercial finance partner to UK stakeholders, providing high‑quality insight, challenge, and decision support across Sales and Operations. The role translates financial performance into clear actions that drive profitability, growth, and disciplined planning.

This position supports the wider UK Commercial Finance leadership team by bringing strong commercial acumen, proactive challenge, and continuous improvement in forecasting, reporting, and insight. The FP&A Business Partner also plays a key role in cross‑functional projects and provides cover for the Finance Manager and FP&A Manager when required.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Commercial Excellence & Profitability

• Lead financial performance management at client, segment, and country level
• Deliver actionable insight to improve growth, margin, and return on investment
• Partner with Sales and Operations to identify efficiency and cost‑saving opportunities

Strategic Pricing & Contract Support

• Provide financial leadership on pricing for new business, renewals, and commercial frameworks
• Ensure strong governance, controls, and profitability analysis
• Support senior stakeholders with deal evaluation and commercial decision‑making

Forecasting & Performance Challenge

• Own the rolling forecast, ensuring quality, accuracy, and robust assumptions
• Challenge drivers, risks, phasing, and variances versus Budget and Prior Year
• Drive corrective actions with Sales Directors and operational leaders

Planning, Budgeting & Investment Appraisal

• Lead preparation of financial plans, budgets, business cases, and investment appraisals
• Ensure plans align to UK priorities and translate into clear KPIs and delivery cadence

Reporting & Executive Storytelling

• Own weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packs
• Provide clear variance analysis and concise commentary
• Present financial insights effectively to leadership forums

Month‑End, Prelims & Financial Hygiene

• Support strong prelims and close discipline
• Ensure accuracy through reconciliations, accruals, and compliance with reporting timelines

Process Excellence & Capability Building

• Continuously improve forecasting, reporting, and planning processes
• Champion automation, standardisation, and best practice
• Coach and support junior FP&A colleagues where applicable

This list is not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested

Key Measures of Success

• High‑quality, accurate, and well‑documented forecasts (≥95% accuracy)
• Timely and accurate month‑end submissions with clear variance insight
• Measurable commercial improvements (e.g. margin uplift, efficiency gains)
• Clear, compelling financial storytelling for senior stakeholders
• Delivery of process or automation improvements that reduce manual effort or cycle time

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Essential Experience

• Strong FP&A or commercial finance background
• Proven business partnering capability with non‑finance stakeholders
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis

Desirable Experience

• Technology, services, or fast‑paced commercial environments

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling
• Strong reporting and dashboard mindset (Power BI exposure beneficial)
• Ability to work across multiple data sources and translate insight into action

Qualifications

• Qualified or strong part‑qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent experience)

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.

Insight is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and recognizes and values the unique talents and perspectives which individuals with disabilitiesbring to our workplace and we encourage them to apply. Any information provided regarding changes or adjustments will be kept confidential and used solely for the purpose of ensuring all our candidates can perform at their very best during the recruitment process.