Job title: Finance Business Partner
Salary: Circa £60,000 - £65,000 + TfL Benefits
Grade: Band 3
Contract type: TfL
Reference: 4081
Number of roles: 1 x 12 month FTC Contract details: Hybrid (50% of time spent in the Office) Location: Pier Walk, Greenwich Application closing date: Friday 5th June 2026
Overview of project/role:
Act as a trusted and influential Finance Business Partner supporting a high‑profile Major Change Programme following the award of a new service contract. This role provides financial leadership and insight across the full programme, including mobilisation, transition, and eventual handback.
This is not a traditional management accounting position. It is designed for a finance professional who wants to operate at the centre of a major transformation programme, working closely with programme leaders, commercial teams, and delivery partners to shape outcomes, manage financial risk, and ensure robust value for money.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders to drive financial performance, ensure strong cost control, and support effective decision‑making. This includes interpreting financial data, constructively challenging assumptions, and helping to shape strategies that deliver successful programme outcomes.
The role requires a proactive, collaborative approach, building strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams. You will play a key role in ensuring financial risks and opportunities are clearly understood, actively managed, and communicated throughout the programme lifecycle.
The role will provide proactive financial leadership across the programme, including:
- Financial oversight of programme costs, ensuring robust forecasting, budgeting, cost control, and affordability throughout mobilisation, transition, and delivery phases.
- Financial review and assurance of key programme plans, supporting delivery teams to understand the financial implications of decisions and ensuring alignment with contractual commitments, funding constraints, and key milestones.
- Commercial financial support to supplier engagement and negotiations, including reviewing cost transparency, analysing open‑book financial information, and ensuring strong value for money outcomes.
- Acting as a key financial adviser to senior stakeholders, translating complex financial and commercial considerations into clear, practical insight to support confident and timely decision‑making.This role is suited to someone who is motivated by working in a dynamic delivery environment and who is comfortable stepping outside the boundaries of traditional management accounting to influence outcomes across a high‑profile, business‑critical programme.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a key, visible point of contact for budget holders, providing an integrated view of financial performance and supporting financial input into decision‑making across the programme.
- Provide key management reporting and financial information to support decision‑making and delivery of agreed programme and business objectives.
- Collect, collate and challenge financial and planning information, including risks and opportunities, to inform short‑ and long‑term financial planning.
- Provide ad‑hoc analysis and insight on performance, including the use of investment and project appraisal techniques.
- Work with the Business Services Finance team to ensure accurate financial transactions and compliance with financial policies.
- Interface with local and central finance teams to ensure an efficient and effective finance service.
- Actively contribute to the Finance community, supporting continuous improvement and added value.
Skills:
- Financial planning, forecasting and variance analysis within a complex business or programme environment (Practitioner / Experienced).
- Programme and project finance experience, supporting cost control, affordability, risk and delivery across complex or time‑critical programmes (Experienced).
- Management accounting and cost accounting, with the ability to interpret cost drivers, challenge assumptions and support informed decision‑making (Practitioner).
- Commercial acumen, including the ability to understand, interpret and challenge supplier cost information, contractual cost implications and value‑for‑money considerations (Practitioner).
- Financial risk management and control, including identification, quantification and communication of risks and opportunities (Practitioner).
- Management reporting and ad‑hoc financial analysis, tailored to senior stakeholders and governance forums (Practitioner).
- Strong understanding of professional accounting standards and principles, with the judgement to apply them pragmatically in a delivery environment (Practitioner).
- Confidence working with financial systems and software, using data to provide insight rather than simply reporting outputs (Practitioner).
Knowledge:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Qualified CCAB (Essential)
- Experience at building relationships at senior management level
- Working knowledge of investment appraisal tools and methodologies and their application
Experience:
- Experience in managing delivery of key management accounting services to time, budget and quality.
- Extensive experience providing Finance Business Partnering support to a Major Change/ Transformation Programme
- Experience working with and influencing senior management with demonstrable skills in challenging and collaborating with this type of stakeholder.
- Experience of integrated ERP accounting platforms (SAP) able to manage, use and manipulate data and information to enable effective reporting, planning, financial management and control.
- Demonstrable experience of driving value through effective analysis and management of financial information
Application Process:
- Please apply using your CV & 1 page Cover Letter
- Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV
- PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images
We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Equality, diversity and inclusion:
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.
Benefits:
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
- Final salary pension scheme
- Free travel for you on the TfL network
- Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
- 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
- Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
- Discounted Eurostar travel
Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.
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