Senior Finance Business Partner

The Senior Finance Business Partner plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering financial insight that drives strategic decision-making across the RHS. With a proactive and solution-oriented approach, the role leads financial conversations, fosters strong partnerships, and brings clarity to complex data. Acting as a trusted advisor, the postholder influences operational and commercial outcomes, champions innovation, and upholds RHS values and behaviours while ensuring financial stewardship supports the charity's long-term objectives.

Responsibility for providing a holistic approach to finance business partnering for multiple functional stakeholders including P&L support with consideration given to income, margins, operating costs & profit for purpose;

Provide overall capital for the gardens and estate projects, producing capital investment appraisals as required to support business cases;

Provide overall financial insights into key business drivers to support the development of the business areas strategic objectives and annual budgets;

Overall responsibility for the financial support of the garden through the financial planning, annual budgeting and forecasting processes with a view to set realistic and achievable targets;

Support the Finance Business Partners and Analyst to develop tactical delivery plans to support the overarching financial objectives of the business areas;

Able to use sound business acumen to assess new ideas from both operational and financial perspectives to articulate the impacts with clear and meaningful recommendations;

Support the Head of Finance by producing complex/ bespoke analysis that requires sound business acumen and understanding of business trends;

Understand and support the wider business to maintain audit and financial legislative standards, using the team to embed good practice;

Preparation of month end commentary, providing insights and suggestions for remedial activities;

Investigates and questions reported trends in KPIs with stakeholder group and implements mid to short term plans to maximise performance;Challenge unusual P&L movements, forecasts and fluctuations to ensure forecast and actual financial performance is robust;

Responsible for financial analysis of key business drivers using standard suite of reporting tools and data from other internal and external sources;

Act as the finance leader to build and maintain partnerships to develop strong networks across the area of responsibility.