Senior Finance Business Partner

Contract: Banking

Location: London, EC2M 2QS

Hours of work: 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for an opportunity to influence strategic decision-making and build strong commercial partnerships?

ISS is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team, providing financial leadership and insight across a diverse client portfolio.

Job Description

Working closely with senior stakeholders, operational teams, and clients, you will play a key role in driving commercial performance, supporting business growth, and ensuring robust financial control.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, challenging assumptions, and using data to shape business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Build strong relationships with senior managers, stakeholders, and clients, providing trusted financial support and advice.

Deliver accurate financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and commercial analysis.

Identify opportunities to improve financial performance, efficiency, and business growth.

Support contract reviews, pricing, procurement, and commercial decision-making.

Provide financial leadership on bids, projects, and business improvement initiatives.

Ensure robust financial controls, governance, and compliance across the portfolio.

Challenge assumptions and provide insight to support strategic business decisions.

Lead, coach, and develop Finance Business Partners and wider finance colleagues

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

Qualified accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA).

Proven experience in business partnering within a complex, multi-country commercial service contract environment.

Prior experience managing commercial contracts is essential, with a clear understanding of client priorities.

Professional, committed and conscientious, with a positive attitude to change and the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities across the role, client, Operations, suppliers and team.

Strong communicator, able to build and sustain relationships with clients, professional bodies and internal stakeholders across a dispersed network and multiple time zones.

Numerate and accurate, with a high level of computer literacy, including PowerPoint, Word and financial systems.

Advanced user of Excel.

Highly focused on achieving targeted results, with the ability to prioritise across a broad and demanding portfolio.

Experience within a service-based industry is essential, with Facilities Management (FM) experience preferred.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger,

#aplacetobeyou,

#facilitiesmanagement ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.team@uk.issworld.com

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To find out more about what we do - https://www.uk.issworld.com/