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Finance Business Partner (Commercial / FP&A)
- leatherhead, england, United Kingdom
- £50 - £70 Per Hour
Job Description
- 30 days of annual leave (includes a Wellbeing Day)
- Sabbatical (after 3 years of working with Sunswap)
- 5 free counselling sessions per year
- Family leave ranging from 4 weeks to 4 months
- Free Monthly Lunches & Quarterly Socials!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free Sunswap merch
Job overview
We are looking for a commercially driven finance professional who turns complex data into clear, strategic insight. This is a high-impact role at the centre of decision-making, combining strong financial modelling with a forward-looking approach to automation and AI. You will partner across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to shape forecasts, challenge assumptions, and drive better business outcomes.
Key responsibilities
- Drive the use of AI, automation, and BI tools within your role to improve financial modelling, forecasting accuracy, and reporting efficiency
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual processes and enhance insight generation
- Continuously improve financial processes, tools, and methodologies to scale with the business
Cross-Functional Partnering
- Partner with Commercial, Supply Chain and Finance teams to align assumptions across revenue, pricing, pipeline, and cost inputs
- Challenge and refine non-finance assumptions to ensure robust, commercially sound decision-making
- Support pricing strategy and margin optimisation through close collaboration with commercial teams
- Build and maintain robust, driver-based financial models to support strategic decision-making
- Lead cash flow and working capital forecasting, incorporating operational drivers (e.g. customer and supplier terms, inventory, lead times, liquidity)
- Perform scenario, sensitivity, and variance analysis to inform planning and performance
- Translate financial analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders
Qualifications & experience
- 3–5+ years in FP&A, commercial finance, or similar (experience in venture capital or VC-backed businesses advantageous)
- Advanced Excel and strong financial modelling capability
- Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and financial systems (e.g. Dynamics)
- Experience using automation and/or AI to improve workflows or analysis
- Strong analytical, commercial, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to communicate complex financial insights to non-finance stakeholders
Qualifications
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Maths or similar
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CFA (preferred)