Ground Control
Senior Finance Business Partner
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Senior Finance Business Partner
Location: Hybrid working with at least 3 days working in our Billericay office and flexibility to work remotely.
Salary: Competitive
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Perfect for an experienced Finance Business Partner who enjoys influencing senior leaders, challenging commercial thinking, and driving measurable business performance.
We're looking for a commercially astute Senior Finance Business Partner to join Ground Control and become a trusted advisor to divisional leadership teams across the business.
This is far more than a traditional finance role. You'll work alongside senior operational leaders, helping them understand what's driving business performance, identifying opportunities for growth, challenging assumptions, and supporting strategic decision-making through meaningful commercial insight.
You'll be someone who enjoys asking the difficult questions, influencing decision-making, and helping leaders balance commercial priorities with long-term business success. Through building strong relationships and providing clear financial direction, you'll play a key role in shaping the performance of your division.
Whether you're leading strategic planning, developing investment cases, improving financial performance, or driving continuous improvement, you'll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact across the business. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced commercial environment where your expertise directly influences business decisions, you'll find plenty of opportunity to make your mark.
Why join Ground Control?
- Become a trusted commercial advisor
- Work alongside senior operational and divisional leaders, providing financial insight, commercial challenge, and strategic guidance that supports better decision-making and drives business performance.
- Influence business performance
- Use your commercial expertise to identify opportunities, challenge thinking, and support key strategic decisions. You'll help shape business plans, improve profitability, and contribute directly to the continued growth of the organisation.
- Solve complex commercial challenges
- From leading budgeting and forecasting cycles to evaluating investment opportunities, improving financial performance, and supporting business transformation, you'll work across a diverse and fast-moving organisation where no two days are the same.
- Lead with impact
- You'll have the autonomy to influence senior stakeholders, improve financial processes, and drive meaningful change while mentoring colleagues and helping to strengthen our commercial finance capability.
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What we're looking for
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Significant experience operating as a Senior Finance Business Partner, Commercial Finance Manager, or within a senior FP&A role in a commercially driven organisation.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, using financial insight to support strategic business decisions.
- Strong commercial acumen with extensive experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
- Experience developing robust financial models, investment appraisals, and business cases to support commercial decision-making.
- Demonstrable experience identifying financial risks, opportunities, and performance trends, translating data into meaningful business insight.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge constructively and build trusted relationships across all levels of the business.
- Experience leading finance transformation, process improvement, or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrable leadership experience, including mentoring, developing, or leading finance professionals.
- Advanced Excel skills with strong financial modelling and analytical capability.
- Experience working within a commercially focused organisation in sectors such as retail, FMCG, manufacturing, infrastructure, construction, facilities management, or similar would be advantageous.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary – aligned with your skills and experience
- Performance-linked bonus: Bonus opportunities aligned to your level and contribution.
- Pension scheme – helping you plan for the future
- Recognition schemes – celebrating and rewarding great work
- Private GP service – fast, convenient access to medical support
- Life insurance – providing added peace of mind
- Subsidised gym membership – supporting your health and wellbeing
- Holiday buy scheme – purchase up to 5 additional days of annual leave
Equal Opportunities Statement
At Ground Control, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. We believe that diversity drives innovation and success, and we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic as defined in the Equality Act 2010.
We actively support and promote an inclusive culture, ensuring fair and equitable treatment throughout the recruitment process and across all stages of employment, including training, development, promotion, pay, and termination. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants and employees, and to creating a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, or victimisation. #CF
We expect all colleagues to uphold our values of dignity, respect, and inclusion. We take a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discriminatory behaviour and are committed to continuous improvement through training, inclusive policies, and accountability at all levels.
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