Lead Specialist, Finance Business Partner

Overview

The organization is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join its Enterprise finance team in the United States. This role supports a newly consolidated, high-visibility business and reports to the Finance Director, Enterprise.

This position owns core planning and performance activities while partnering with leaders across HR, strategy, sales, delivery, and product. The environment is closer to a growth business than a mature corporate structure, with opportunities to help build clearer processes, reporting, and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Own annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-term planning
• Provide variance analysis, performance commentary, and decision-ready financial insight
• Partner with operational leaders on business cases, investments, pricing, and cost optimization
• Produce timely management accounts, KPI dashboards, and month-end analysis
• Support strategic and operational planning for the Enterprise business
• Improve reporting, forecasting, and finance workflows through standardization and automation
• Build practical cross-functional solutions, including workforce and hiring-data visibility
• Maintain strong controls, governance, and alignment with group finance requirements

Requirements

• Strong FP&A or financial advisory experience, ideally in a large, matrixed, or fast-moving organization
• Evidence of working effectively with non-finance stakeholders and influencing senior decisions
• Excellent logical problem-solving, analytical skills, and commercial judgement
• Advanced Excel skills, financial modeling, and scenario analysis
• Ability to translate complex data into clear insight and recommendations
• Proactive approach to improving processes and delivering through ambiguity
• Clear communication, constructive challenge, and dependable ownership
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, or CFA preferred rather than essential
• Experience with Essbase, Oracle, or Salesforce helpful but not required
• Practical use of AI in work, or genuine curiosity to develop it, is valued

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation is influenced by skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is:

• Minimum full-time salary range: $89,600 - 166,400

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

Applications will be accepted through October 28th. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

Location & Working Pattern

United States, remote. East Coast location is preferred for working-time overlap, although strong candidates elsewhere in the US may be considered.