Ipsum

Senior Finance Business Partner

Ipsum  •  £70k - £80k/yr  •  Sidcup, GB / London, GB / Bexley, GB (Onsite)  •  15 days ago
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Job Description

Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Sidcup

Employment type: Full Time

Working Hours: Monday to Friday

What’s in it for you…

We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.​

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Option to buy up to 5 additional holidays
  • Group Personal Pension Plan
  • Career development & progression with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications
  • 24/7 access to a virtual GP​ and Mental health support & counselling services​
  • Cycle to Work scheme​
  • Discount club - supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more​!
  • Life assurance cover​
  • Long service recognition​
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay
  • Paid volunteering opportunities in your community​

About the role…

Reporting to the Head of Finance (Private Power), you will be a trusted business partner to the Managing Director and senior leadership team, providing high-quality management information and commercial insight to support strategic decision-making and business performance across our Power Division.

You will be responsible for delivering accurate financial and commercial reporting, maintaining strong financial controls, and driving effective working capital management. This is an influential role offering the opportunity to provide meaningful insight, challenge, and support that helps shape the future success of the business. This role is based at our Sidcup office, four days a week with one day working from home.

As a Senior Finance Business Partner you will…

  • Partnering with the MD and senior leadership team to provide high-quality management information and commercial insight.
  • Working closely with finance and commercial teams across the Group to ensure compliance with financial controls and processes.
  • Leading working capital management, including cashflow forecasting, WIP reduction, billing improvements, and cash collection initiatives.
  • Producing accurate financial reporting and maintaining key tax control accounts.
  • Reviewing and overseeing payroll processes prior to finance sign-off.
  • Supporting divisional projects, including system implementations and business integration activities.
  • Ensuring robust financial controls, governance, and best-practice processes are maintained and continuously improved.
  • Managing relationships with external auditors and supporting the annual audit process.
  • Providing leadership, mentoring, and development support to junior team members while maintaining accurate financial documentation and records.

About you…

  • Proven experience in a Finance Business Partnering or similar commercially focused finance role.
  • Fully qualified accountant -ACCA, CIMA or ACA (essential).
  • Strong understanding of management reporting, financial analysis, and business performance drivers.
  • Experience of project accounting, with utilities sector experience beneficial but not essential.
  • Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Confident in challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities for improvement.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
  • Experience in managing a team, providing guidance and development.
  • Resilient, adaptable, and able to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment while building strong relationships across the business.

You'll be a collaborative and driven individual who enjoys partnering with operational leaders, turning financial data into meaningful insight, and making a genuine impact on business performance. In return, you'll have the opportunity to shape decision-making, contribute to strategic growth, and develop your career within a supportive and ambitious organisation.

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities...

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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Next steps...

If you’re interested in this opportunity, please apply or reach out to the Talent Team for more info!

Ipsum

About Ipsum

At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.

We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.

At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.

The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.

As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.

We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.

Industry
Energy & Utilities
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Chorley, GB
Year Founded
2017
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