Interim Finance Business Partner

HW Finance is partnering with a growing organisation in York to recruit an Interim Finance Business Partner to join their team on an initial 6–month assignment.

This role offers strong potential for extension or even a permanent opportunity for the right individual.

As Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of business strategy by providing strong financial leadership, governance, insight, and constructive challenge. You'll enable stakeholders to make informed, value–driven decisions while supporting the organisation's wider mission.

You'll also work closely with Group Services, contributing to budgeting, forecasting, month–end processes, and overseeing financial reporting, ledger integrity, and investment activity.

Day to day, this role will look like:

• Work in partnership with the organisation's stakeholders to identify and understand business issues, risks and financial information needs and provide insight that will add value to the business area.
• Act as a primary contact for finance issues arising in the designated business area(s); providing technical and financial advice and acting as a Finance representative on internal committees and project groups as required.
• Provide the accounting support to the financial and investment teams, ensuring transactions, portfolio balances and fees are accurately recorded and reported.
• Support the business area(s) in the identification and development of suitable benchmarking opportunities and KPIs and where appropriate.
• Support the development and implementation, where relevant, of new ways of working to support the business area(s) ambitions and delivery of organisational objectives.
• Work closely with the Group Services teams to ensure processes run smoothly and financial information and decision support is optimised.
• Support the business area(s) in developing the budget proposals and in exercising budgetary control including the forecast outturn for the year
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly or quarterly management accounts, identify issues that need to be addressed and discuss solutions with the budget holders
• Support budget holders in the preparation of business cases, undertaking financial appraisals, identifying and quantifying associated costs, benefits, risks and finding solutions
• Support the preparation of budgets, financial plans and accounts
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within Finance

You will be offered hybrid working in this role with only 2 days per week required in the office, if you would like to go into the office more this is fine. Daily rate offered: GBP250 – GBP300 per day (Inside IR35).

We're looking for someone with a commercial mindset, strong Excel and modelling skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

If you're available immediately and looking for a new interim assignment, please reach out.

Contact Niamh Hellewell at HW Finance.