Senior Finance Business Partner

Sewell Wallis are working with a well-established Professional Services business based in Sheffield to secure a skilled Finance Business Partner for their Commercial Finance Team, to partner and support one of the companies more strategically important business units with a revenue of approx. £65mil.

You'll be a trusted advisor, working closely with stakeholders to provide high‑quality financial insight, performance reporting and commercial challenge to help drive profitability, efficiency and long‑term growth. To be a successful candidate you'll need to be commercially-minded, a strong communicator who is comfortable challenging and influencing key stakeholders where needed, alongside having strong technical skill around forecasting and modelling, particularly using PowerBI.

This role doesn't include management of a team, and operates as a stand alone Business Partner for the division, reporting in the Commercial Finance Manager, giving you autonomy and ownership.

What will you be doing?

• Producing insightful performance reporting, forecasts and commentary to influence decision making.
• Leading and supporting budgeting, re-forecasting, expected financial outcome (EFO) and longer‑term strategic planning processes.
• Building and maintaining robust financial and forecasting models, including income and scenario modelling.
• Interpreting KPIs and performance data to identify opportunities to improve profitability and efficiency - working to create accessible dashboards for the team.
• Working closely with Commercial Insight, Business Performance, FP&A and Group Finance teams to improve reporting, controls and commercial awareness.
• Acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions and supporting the delivery of key projects.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across Finance and the wider business.

What skills are we looking for?

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with post‑qualification experience
• Strong experience in analytical finance roles, including building and maintaining complex financial models
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills, with the ability to turn data into meaningful insight.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, providing challenge and clear financial advice.
• A strategic mindset, with experience supporting budgets, forecasts and longer‑term planning.
• Experience working within a corporate service sector industry would be beneficial.
• Happy to consider someone with a Business Partner background, or a commercial Finance Controller with strong PowerBI and analytic experience.

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary of up to £75,000
• Hybrid, with extremely flexible working - minimum of 1 day a month on site.
• 25 days of holidays, bank holidays off, and the opportunity to buy an additional week of leave
• Westfield Healthcare
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Central location with nearby car parks and cycle racks.
• Modern offices

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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.