Rodericks Dental Partners
Senior Finance Business Partner - FP&A
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Senior Finance Business Partner - FP&A
Location: Northampton
At Rodericks Dental Partners, Your Smile Matters Too. We care just as much about our people as we do about our patients. That’s why we’re creating an environment where you can grow, feel valued, and enjoy a healthy work-life balance.
We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team; you will be responsible for owning and driving the Group's financial planning and performance reporting cycle.
In this role you will lead the annual budget, reforecasting, long-range planning and Group practice headcount model across our 227 practices. You will be responsible for setting the planning framework, developing robust financial models, challenging assumptions and ensuring that financial plans translate the Group's strategic priorities into clear, actionable financial outcomes. You will own key elements of Board and Executive reporting, providing senior stakeholders with clear analysis of performance, risks, opportunities and the actions required to deliver the plan.
This is a highly visible role, working closely with the Deputy CFO, CFO, CEO, wider Executive team, Commercial FBPs, FP&A, Management Accounts, Power BI team and other senior stakeholders.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Business Partnering, Commercial Analysis & Modelling: Partner with senior stakeholders to provide financial insight, challenge assumptions and support better commercial decision-making.
- Forecasting & Performance Planning: Lead the Group's reforecasting cycle, providing a clear and robust view of expected performance and the actions required to deliver the plan.
- Budgeting & Long-Range Planning: Lead the annual Group budgeting process end to end, ensuring financial plans are aligned with the Group's strategy and operational priorities.
- Board & Executive Reporting: Own the Group P&L and key FP&A elements of Board and Executive reporting, translating financial performance into clear commercial insight. Working closely with the CFO, CEO and wider Executive team to understand and communicate the financial implications of key business decisions.
- Practice Headcount & People Cost Modelling: Own the Group practice headcount model, providing a single source of truth for practice workforce planning and people costs across the Rodericks estate.
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of 2 in the FP&A team, ensuring high-quality outputs and effective delivery across the planning and performance cycle.
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What We're Looking For
Essential
- Degree educated or equivalent relevant experience.
- Qualified accountant — ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
- Strong experience in FP&A, commercial finance, management accounting or a similar role.
- Proven experience of owning or leading a significant budgeting and forecasting process.
- Strong understanding of P&L, financial modelling and business performance.
- Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling, consolidation and large-scale planning models.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear commercial insight.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and confidently challenging assumptions.
- Excellent organisation and process management skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present financial information to senior leadership.
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Desirable
- Experience using Workday Adaptive Planning or a similar planning platform.
- Experience with Power BI or equivalent data visualisation tools.
- Experience of headcount modelling / workforce planning.
- Experience in a multi-site, acquisitive or PE-backed environment.
- Experience of Board, investor, lender or external adviser reporting.
- Experience of process automation using tools such as Power Query, VBA or similar.
This role will be based 3 days on-site.
What We Offer You
At Rodericks Dental Partners, we know that looking after our people helps us deliver the very best for our patients. Alongside a supportive team environment, you’ll enjoy:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Your Smile Matters Too: An additional personal day just for you
- Wellbeing support, employee assistance programme & health benefits
- Opportunities for career development and progression
- A role where your contribution directly supports patient care across the UK
If you are an experienced and analytical finance professional and want to be part of a team that truly values people, we’d love to hear from you.
Join us at Rodericks Dental Partners – where Your Smile Matters Too.
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