Finance Business Partner - Commercial

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the Finance team. Reporting to the FP&A Manager, and responsible for partnering with our Sales Division. Building a financial understanding of sales performance in different regions and markets, the role is responsible for building and maintaining office-level P&Ls and feeding into commentary of performance against budget. The role is also responsible for ad-hoc analysis of sales performance and sales budgeting, forecasting and investment cases.

As part of a successful, global, software company, and undertaking a number of important responsibilities, the role will be challenging and diverse - to keep you at the top of your game we'll invest in you and your career, providing all the training and support needed for you to do great work.

• You've got strong core business skills, including influencing and stakeholder management.


• You're comfortable presenting to and challenging senior stakeholders within the business.


• You've got the ability to understand the commercial positioning of a business and provide support and critical analysis around strategic plans.


• You're able to synthesise large, complex data sets into actionable insights.


• You're action biased, with the ability to make judgements and decisions in complex and ambiguous situations.


• You're an effective communicator of financial issues to both financial and non-financial audiences.


• Self-starter and initiative individual who can manage own workload.


• Prior experience of business partnering commercial functions.


What else would help?

• A relevant financial or accounting qualification (e.g. CFA, ACA, CIMA etc.).


• Some previous experience of:

+ dealing with software specific accounting policies (licencing revenue recognition, for example) and reporting metrics (ARR, GDR, NDR, for example).
+ Experience of one or more of the following, NetSuite, PowerBI or Salesforce.

What's the package?

• A great benefits package.


• Salary range is £55k-£70k, depending on experience.


• You'll work 40 hours a week,


• Flexible working - at least 1 day/week in the office (Cambridge HQ).