Senior Finance Business Partner - Commercial

Supports the Commercial Business Unit by building accurate and reliable financial plans and by communicating and reporting performance to provide management with effective decision support. Working within Commercial, the postholder builds strong relationships across the business and acts as a key finance contact for Director- and Head-level colleagues and budget owners. The role helps the business understand in-year performance and pipeline potential across key revenue-generating areas and supports informed decision-making and long-term objectives.

• Provide clear, concise and insightful reporting and business partnering across the Commercial Business Unit, analysing data and turning it into useful, insightful information for stakeholders to support informed decision-making and long-term objectives.
• Analyse financial results and proposals against budgets and potential return on investment.
• Prepare budgets and forecasts, respond to ad hoc requirements and maintain a long-term forecast aligned to core objectives.
• Partner with stakeholders across licensing, business development and marketing to support agile decisions that protect budgets and enhance return on investment.
• Own delivery of Commercial Finance monthly, quarterly and annual planning cycles.
• Review the Commercial Business Unit month-end close process, working collaboratively with wider Finance teams to support its completion and accuracy.
• Maintain forecasting and budgeting templates and develop robust budgetary controls.
• Develop internal Workday and Power BI reporting.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and collaborate across Finance to plan and deliver them.
• Build trusted internal and external stakeholder relationships, providing insight and constructive challenge to support short- and long-term decision-making.

• Ability to build accurate and reliable financial plans and to communicate and report performance to provide management with effective decision support.
• Strong relationship-building skills across the business, with the ability to develop, report and support adherence to financial plans.
• Ability to act as a key finance contact for Director- and Head-level colleagues and budget owners.
• Ability to provide clear, concise and insightful reporting and business partnering.
• Ability to analyse financial results and proposals against budgets and potential return on investment.
• Ability to prepare budgets and forecasts and maintain a long-term forecast aligned to core objectives.
• Ability to partner with stakeholders across licensing, business development and marketing.
• Ability to own monthly, quarterly and annual planning cycles.
• Ability to review month-end close processes and work collaboratively with wider Finance teams.
• Ability to maintain forecasting and budgeting templates and develop robust budgetary controls.
• Ability to develop internal Workday and Power BI reporting.
• Ability to identify and deliver process improvements across Finance.
• Ability to build trusted internal and external stakeholder relationships and provide insight and constructive challenge.
• Ability to analyse data and turn it into useful, insightful information for stakeholders.