Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Closing Date: 30/3/26

Locations: Birmingham, London or Manchester - 3 days a week onsite.

DV Clearance - You must either be eligible for DV clearance or preferably currently possess DV clearance.

Why this job matters

As a Finance Business Partner, you will support financial planning, reporting, and business decision-making within a specialist environment. You will work across internal and external business partnering activities, helping to manage in-life forecasts and actuals, support monthly financial processes, and provide clear financial insight to stakeholders.

You will be part of a team working in a complex and secure business area, where collaboration and clarity are important to bringing financial information together across different stakeholders. This role suits someone who can work in a connected way, navigate detailed data, and help shape a coherent financial story in support of the wider team.

What you’ll be doing

- Manage monthly reporting, forecasting, and actuals to support accurate financial control.
- Partner with stakeholders across the business to provide clear financial insight and support decision-making.
- Translate complex financial information into clear, accessible updates for non-financial audiences.
- Support activities linked to contract accounting and month-end close processes.
- Work with relevant systems and financial inputs, including areas such as purchase orders, reconciliations, billing, and revenue recognition.
- Collaborate with wider teams on tax and trading compliance matters where required.

Skills and Experiences

Essential
- Accounting qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent.
- Experience in contract accounting and/or working within a finance month-end close cycle.
- Ability to explain financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
- Experience working with finance systems such as SAP or similar platforms.

Desirable
- Strong capability in working with financial data and turning it into meaningful business insight.
- Previous business partnering experience is preferred, but not essential if you can demonstrate relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.

We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.

We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.

As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.