Finance Business Partner

About finova

finova is the UK's largest cloud-based mortgages and savings software provider, supporting over 60 leading lenders, 3000 mortgage brokers and 200 financial institutions. Our suite of award-winning software includes a Core Banking Platform, Broker Platform and finova Connect, a range of solutions that connect lenders, intermediaries, and consumers. Fast implementation and open architecture are at the centre of our technology, giving our customers the flexibility to integrate into their existing system or configure solutions to meet the needs of their business.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Planning and Reporting, you will play a crucial role in our FP&A team, supporting our business units by providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to drive strategic decision-making. This role requires a proactive individual with exceptional analytical skills, business acumen, and the ability to collaborate effectively across various departments. Your day to day will involve working directly with a spectrum of stakeholders across our business on a variety of tasks, which will include:

What you will be doing:

• Budgets, forecasts and financial models – Own and improve our budgeting and forecasting processes and models, including working closely with business owners to develop and maintain ongoing plans. To do this, you will need to build strong relationships with business owners and build a deep understanding of the commercial drivers behind our business performance

• MI and reporting – Provide a range of business owners and management with accurate and timely MI to support strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. You will need to flex your reporting to meet different needs of users and provide insight (not just providing a data dump!), for example by analysing and reporting current and past trends in key performance indicators or producing scenario plans to assist strategic decision making along with suitable commentary and explanations.

• Commercial support and business partnering – Support different areas of the business in understanding the financial performance for their departments, teams and projects; or working alongside the business to prepare financial or commercial cases for deals and projects

• Cost management and pricing – Help our teams drive better efficiencies or revenue maximisation by analysing financial data to produce insights and producing pricing and cost models

• Process improvement and data quality – lead or participate in initiatives to improve processes, systems, and workflows to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

Ad hoc analysis and support – participate in strategic projects and support with ad hoc analysis as requested by management.

About You:

You will be a key finance team member for finova and you will feel comfortable collaborating with other members of the team and wider Group. You will be confident in your technical ability and able to communicate effectively with non-financial staff. In terms of your experience, your attitude is everything, but we'd particularly love to see:

· Business partnering / financial analysis experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment – ideally within a B2B SaaS / tech software industry

· Strategic mindset with a focus on driving business performance and growth.

· Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders within an organisation.

· Highly organised, efficient, and adaptable; able to proactively plan workload and manage priorities.

· Ability to work well in a team and with excellent interpersonal skills and positive energy.

Required Skills & Experience

· Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

· Minimum 2 years PQE working in a fast-paced SME environment, ideally in tech or software industries.

· Strong Excel skills with experience of building financial models

· Demonstrated experience working with and transforming large datasets to produce meaningful MI and experience of using data visualisation tools like PowerBI. A strong understanding of data governance is required.High degree of integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail.

· Experience using/implementing forecasting systems or tools would be desirable

· Solid understanding of IFRS, especially on revenue recognition and R&D capitalisation is a must.

What will you get from joining the finova family?

Flexible Working:

· 25 days holiday in each calendar year plus bank holidays

· Bank Holiday trading: flexibility to work bank holidays and take another day off that fits your values, beliefs or celebration calendar better

· Increasing your work life balance, holiday trading allows employees to buy an extra 5 days holidays

· Work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks a year

· We recognise the importance of juggling family and work life therefore finova offer a flexible hybrid working policy

· We're open to applicants from all walks of life, please feel free to ask us if you require flexible working and we'll do our best to accommodate

Looking After You:

· Life Assurance, Group Income Protection and Private Medical Insurance

· Pension scheme via Salary Exchange

· Employee Assistance Programme with counselling sessions available

· Virtual GP to save you time in trying to get an in-person appointment

Family Friendly policy:

· Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

· Paid time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss

Extra Perks:

· Cycle to Work Scheme

· Access to a huge range of benefits & discounts for shops, restaurants and gym memberships

· Free fresh fruit daily

· Share your passions and Interests with like-minded people through our colleague networks and social groups - from book clubs to fitness challenges and group parties

Giving you the chance to give back:

· Give-As-You-Earn scheme allowing you to support your favourite charities straight from your monthly salary

· One days paid volunteering day a year

Equal Opportunity Statement

Diverse teams really are the best teams, we promote a working environment in which diversity is recognised, valued and encouraged. We acknowledge the multi-cultural and diverse nature of the UK workforce and society in general. We are committed to principles of fairness and mutual respect where everyone accepts the concept of individual responsibility. Our policy seeks to ensure job applicants and employees are treated fairly and without favour or prejudice. We are committed to applying this throughout the entire employee lifecycle.

We know that some candidates (and, from the research we've seen, especially women) may feel less inclined to apply for a role if they don't quite meet every requirement of the role. If you like the look of a role but you're not 100% sure if your skillset will meet our requirements, please reach out and we will be happy to talk through your experiences.

Personal Data

finova retains applicants' personal data on our HR System for the purpose of reviewing and evaluating applications and contacting candidates to discuss job opportunities. For unsuccessful candidates, finova will retain your personal data and CV for the duration of 6 months.