Senior Finance Business Partner

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Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Milton Keynes (hybrid)

Type: Full-time, permanent

About the role:

Our Finance Team at BSI is looking for a commercially driven Senior Finance Business Partner to support our Product Certification business unit, playing a key role in enabling strategic, operational, and financial success. This is a high-impact opportunity to work closely with Prod Cert Exec, driving performance, insight, and business transformation.

Reporting to the Finance Director - Regulatory Services, you’ll act as the strategic finance lead for the Product Certification business. This role is central to enabling BSI’s growth ambitions through financial planning, performance reporting, scenario modelling, and actionable insight. You will work in partnership with senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and ensure effective cost and performance management.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Strategic Partnership:
  • Build strong relationships with functional area leadership teams.
  • Influence decisions to optimize operations, drive accountability, and manage costs.
  • Provide strategic financial guidance and support.
• Performance Reporting:
  • Deliver timely and accurate management reporting.
  • Lead functional reviews and present performance insights to senior leadership.
  • Analyse and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Ensure accurate spend reporting and forecasting.
• Forecasting and Planning:
  • Develop and manage financial plans and forecasts for relevant functions.
  • Ensure accuracy and robustness of financial models.
  • Support leadership in presenting plans and forecasts.
• Strategy Development:
  • Support the development of long-range strategic plans (3-5 years).
  • Provide metrics, analytics, and scenario modelling.
  • Ensure alignment of functional cost models with group and divisional requirements.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.

• Deep expertise in FP&A, business partnering, and financial modelling.

• Strong commercial acumen and ability to influence senior leadership.

• Advanced Excel skills; ERP system experience (preferably SAP); familiarity with tools like Tableau or Power BI.

• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

• Analytical, proactive, and collaborative – with a passion for driving performance and continuous improvement.

Grow your career and expand your skills and knowledge. At BSI, we offer opportunities to work across industries and across the globe. You’ll benefit from the different perspectives and experiences of your international colleagues, as well as ongoing training and development. We offer flexible working, as well as 27 days’ annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution, car allowance (dependent on role), income protection, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle. 

*Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy

Together, we are building an organisation that is ready to meet the challenges ahead. Grow your career as you help us shape what comes next.

We exist to have a positive impact. Our people influence international thinking and action on important issues. Our 86,000 customers are based in 193 countries across the globe.

Now we’re taking on society’s biggest challenges. We’re developing standards and guidelines that will help our customers get to net zero, and we’re defining the way new technologies such as AI impact all our lives.

We’re focused on our future – and we’re looking for people who want to grow with us as we take on the challenges of tomorrow. At BSI, you’ll find a workplace where everyone can flourish and thrive, where innovation is encouraged and where learning is part of your everyday. You’ll contribute to work that shapes industries and enhances lives – and you’ll take pride in what you do.

We’re looking for passionate people who want to make a difference in a purpose-led organisation. If that sounds like you, apply now. Together, we can help create a better society and a more sustainable world.

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The world needs fresh thinking and new perspectives to tackle its biggest challenges. It’s why, at BSI, we’re committed to creating a collaborative environment where everyone can contribute. Whatever your background, experience or outlook, here you can be your best self and do your best work.

If you have a disability or health condition, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

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About Us

BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.
 
Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.
Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.
Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.