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Finance Business Partner

The closing date is 28 November 2025

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Job summary

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner who shares our commitment to integrity, collaboration, and innovation. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, you will provide expert financial support and insight to teams delivering life changing healthcare projects and initiatives.

Youll be a key link between finance and operations helping budget holders plan effectively, manage resources responsibly, and understand the financial impact of their decisions.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Partner with teams across the organisation to provide financial advice, support, and challenge.
  • Lead on budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
  • Support project teams with financial information for external funders and stakeholders.
  • Identify and deliver process improvements across financial systems and reporting.
  • Support month-end, year-end, payroll, and VAT return processes.
  • Deputise for the Senior Finance Manager when required.

About You

You will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or bring equivalent experience, with a strong background in financial management, analysis, and business partnering.

You will also bring:

  • Experience engaging confidently with colleagues at all levels.
  • The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance audiences.
  • A proactive, solution-focused mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Excellent IT and Excel skills.
  • (Desirable) Experience within healthcare, research, or the not-for-profit sector.

About us

We are a not-for-profit healthcare innovation organisation working to improve health outcomes and strengthen the NHS through collaboration, research, and new ideas. Our work brings together clinicians, academics, innovators, and communities to turn insight into real impact improving care, efficiency, and sustainability across the healthcare system.

This is an opportunity to join a finance team that believes in more than numbers we believe in purpose. Youll be supported to grow, encouraged to share ideas, and empowered to make a meaningful difference to the future of healthcare.

We offer flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working at UCLPartners. All staff will typically spend a minimum of 40% of their working time at the UCLPartners office i.e. for a minimum of 2 days/week if full-time or 40% of your working time for part-time staff. This can be averaged over a 3-month period.

As part of our benefits package, employees are entitled to 27 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), company pension (employer contribution 10% of annual salary), life assurance coverage, cycle to work scheme, travel season ticket loans and flexible working.

Details

Date posted

17 November 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£46,350 to £61,800 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0273-25-0006

Job locations

76-78

Portland Place

London

W1B 1NT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Finance Business Partner JD

The Role

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the Finance Business Partner will be the key liaison with budget holders to proactively and collaboratively support functions including financial planning, month end reporting, budgeting, forecasting and year end processes.

They will also develop a comprehensive understanding of core finance processes to facilitate the conveying of key principles to budget holders and enable them to deputise for the Senior Finance Manager when required. They will assist in reviewing and developing processes to strengthen financial management practices

We are looking for a fully or part qualified accountant. We will consider candidates qualified by experience.

Key responsibilities

Finance Business Partnering

Proactively liaise with departments to explain financial concepts and assisting to build financial acumen to optimise financial sustainability and organisational effectiveness.

Be the lead finance contact for budget holders to prepare budgets, forecasts and provide finance support.

Communicate key issues to the Senior Finance Manager or Director of Finance as appropriate to mitigate financial risks.

Continuously review, suggest and implement process improvements to financial procedures.

Budgeting and forecasting

Support the Senior Finance Manager in the creation of reports for budget holders and the finance team to collate information, reflecting finance requirements and budget holder needs.

Collate budgets and forecasts with comprehensive variance analysis for review with the Senior Finance Manager.

Assist in developing and reviewing the annual budget setting and periodic forecasting processes.

Project finance reporting

Assist budget holders and project teams with the provision of financial data for external funders and stakeholders.

Attend project meetings to ascertain the financial information needed and the most appropriate mechanism for providing it.

Identify and escalate any risks associated with this reporting as appropriate.

Financial operational management

Support the team in all aspects of the monthly closedown.

Understand the payroll process, supporting with control checks and improvement suggestions.

Support the Senior Finance Manager in reviewing cash flow and managing the payment run process, highlighting risks and areas for improvement.

Support with the quarterly VAT return process, suggesting refinements.

Develop an in depth understanding of the finance software system to be able to perform key functions, including reporting and reconciliations.

Person specification

Professionally qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience with a strong grounding in financial management and reporting.

Extensive experience in business partnering, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis, ideally gained in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Proven ability to drive process improvements and efficiencies.

Understanding of the practicalities of working in a small finance team within a small to medium sized organisation.

Ability to engage confidently with colleagues at all levels, and to communicate financial information clearly and persuasively to non-finance audiences.

Excellent IT skills, particularly advanced Excel.

Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of a team, while also being capable of working independently.

Experience of using different finance software packages and capable of learning new systems.

(Desirable) Experience of working within healthcare, research, or the not-for-profit sector.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Finance Business Partner JD

The Role

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the Finance Business Partner will be the key liaison with budget holders to proactively and collaboratively support functions including financial planning, month end reporting, budgeting, forecasting and year end processes.

They will also develop a comprehensive understanding of core finance processes to facilitate the conveying of key principles to budget holders and enable them to deputise for the Senior Finance Manager when required. They will assist in reviewing and developing processes to strengthen financial management practices

We are looking for a fully or part qualified accountant. We will consider candidates qualified by experience.

Key responsibilities

Finance Business Partnering

Proactively liaise with departments to explain financial concepts and assisting to build financial acumen to optimise financial sustainability and organisational effectiveness.

Be the lead finance contact for budget holders to prepare budgets, forecasts and provide finance support.

Communicate key issues to the Senior Finance Manager or Director of Finance as appropriate to mitigate financial risks.

Continuously review, suggest and implement process improvements to financial procedures.

Budgeting and forecasting

Support the Senior Finance Manager in the creation of reports for budget holders and the finance team to collate information, reflecting finance requirements and budget holder needs.

Collate budgets and forecasts with comprehensive variance analysis for review with the Senior Finance Manager.

Assist in developing and reviewing the annual budget setting and periodic forecasting processes.

Project finance reporting

Assist budget holders and project teams with the provision of financial data for external funders and stakeholders.

Attend project meetings to ascertain the financial information needed and the most appropriate mechanism for providing it.

Identify and escalate any risks associated with this reporting as appropriate.

Financial operational management

Support the team in all aspects of the monthly closedown.

Understand the payroll process, supporting with control checks and improvement suggestions.

Support the Senior Finance Manager in reviewing cash flow and managing the payment run process, highlighting risks and areas for improvement.

Support with the quarterly VAT return process, suggesting refinements.

Develop an in depth understanding of the finance software system to be able to perform key functions, including reporting and reconciliations.

Person specification

Professionally qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience with a strong grounding in financial management and reporting.

Extensive experience in business partnering, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis, ideally gained in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Proven ability to drive process improvements and efficiencies.

Understanding of the practicalities of working in a small finance team within a small to medium sized organisation.

Ability to engage confidently with colleagues at all levels, and to communicate financial information clearly and persuasively to non-finance audiences.

Excellent IT skills, particularly advanced Excel.

Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of a team, while also being capable of working independently.

Experience of using different finance software packages and capable of learning new systems.

(Desirable) Experience of working within healthcare, research, or the not-for-profit sector.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professionally qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience with a strong grounding in financial management and reporting.

Desirable

  • Experience within healthcare, research, or the not-for-profit sector.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professionally qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or qualified by experience with a strong grounding in financial management and reporting.

Desirable

  • Experience within healthcare, research, or the not-for-profit sector.

Employer details

Employer name

UCLPartners

Address

76-78

Portland Place

London

W1B 1NT


Employer's website

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Employer details

Employer name

UCLPartners

Address

76-78

Portland Place

London

W1B 1NT


Employer's website

https://uclpartners.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

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Details

Date posted

17 November 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£46,350 to £61,800 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0273-25-0006

Job locations

76-78

Portland Place

London

W1B 1NT


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