Finance Business Partner

Sewell Wallis is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner on behalf of a not-for-profit organisation based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. This role plays a key part in supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation. You'll work closely with senior leaders, providing high-quality financial insight, modelling, and challenge to ensure resources are used effectively and aligned to organisational priorities. This Finance Business Partner position is ideal for someone who enjoys partnering, influencing, and shaping how a mission-driven organisation delivers value for money.

What will you be doing?

• Partnering with senior leaders to align financial decisions with strategic and operational priorities.
• Providing financial analysis, modelling, and options appraisal to support informed decision making.
• Challenging assumptions, identifying financial risks, and supporting leaders to find solutions and drive value for money.
• Working with key stakeholders to appraise major projects, investments, and procurement activity.
• Supporting forecasting, medium‑term financial planning, and capital strategy development.
• Building financial capability across the organisation through training, guidance, and strong stakeholder relationships.

What skills are we looking for?

• CCAB or CIMA qualified accountant (or equivalent).
• Experience working within a finance business partnering model, or a clear understanding of how to deliver it.
• Strong analytical, modelling, and problem solving skills with the ability to interpret complex information.
• Confident communicator able to influence, negotiate, and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, curious, and comfortable driving performance and value for money.
• Excellent relationship building skills and credibility with senior leaders.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with large, complex ERP systems.

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working where appropriate.
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave.
• A collaborative, values driven culture focused on fairness, integrity, and trust.

Apply below, or for more information, contact Jenny Gibson.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.