Finance Business Partner

Job Description We are looking for a dynamic and analytical Finance Business Partner to join our team and support our Group Functions. In this key role, you'll have the opportunity to build strong relationships with functional heads and their teams, helping to drive financial performance and strategic decision-making. You'll take the lead on cost forecasting and budgeting, managing the annual budgeting process to ensure alignment with organisational goals. You'll also be responsible for developing and maintaining accurate cost forecasts, identifying variances, and implementing corrective actions where needed. If you're ready to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!, In this role, you'll provide high-quality financial analysis and guidance to support key decision-making, while driving performance across the function. You'll interpret and report on financial data, delivering standardised and simplified reporting as well as ad hoc insights. By continuously improving financial processes, optimising P&L performance, and controlling spending, you'll play a critical role in managing risks and opportunities. You'll also ensure robust business cases are developed to support investment decisions, offer accurate forecasting and commercial insights to enhance predictability, and actively contribute to leadership meetings and strategic discussions.

We are looking for a candidate with strong verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively present financial information to senior management. You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, consistently producing high-quality work within tight deadlines. Building strong relationships with stakeholders is key, as is becoming a trusted, credible partner who can coach and influence business leaders. The ideal candidate will be ambitious, proactive, solution-focused, and detail-oriented, with experience in commercial finance roles within matrixed organisations. Commercial awareness and the ability to identify and drive strategy are essential. Preferred candidates will also have expertise in financial modeling (strong Excel skills required) and be a qualified accountant.

What's in it for you?

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year.
• Ongoing training and professional development.
• 5 paid days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation.
• Flexible work patterns and hybrid working (3 days on-site at either the Newcastle or London office, 2 days remote).
Function Commercial Finance Country United Kingdom Office Location London;Newcastle Work Place type Hybrid Advert Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential. Learn more about working at Sage: sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/ Watch a video about our culture: youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE