Finance Business Partner
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Babble is seeking a Finance Business Partner in Reading, full time onsite, to act as a strategic adviser to Product Directors, drive financial performance across Product Pillars, and deliver KPI reporting, budgeting and forecasting, plus data-driven decision support. The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting with commercial acumen, advanced Excel, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex data into actionable recommendations. Requirements include 5+ years in finance with 2+ years commercial, newly or part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA, and comfort in fast paced telecoms or SaaS; ERP and PowerBI are a plus. Tips: tailor your CV to quantify impact, demonstrate stakeholder management, and show how you linked insight to strategy, then apply directly via Babble.
Company Description
Why Babble?
Babble is a Customer Experience-led growth business. As the ultimate Trusted Advisor for cloud-based technologies, we specialize in empowering businesses with the best solutions from the world's leading providers.
We are specialists in:
- Microsoft Modern Work
- Cybersecurity
- Contact Centre Technology
- Mobile Solutions
- Communications & Connectivity
With thousands of customers, we're just scratching the surface of our potential. Many of our clients currently benefit from one or two of our technologies, presenting an incredible opportunity to introduce them to our full suite of market-leading solutions.
Join us on this exciting journey and let's achieve greatness together!
About Us | Leading UK Cloud Solutions Provider | Babble
Job Description
Join Our Dynamic Team as a Finance Business Partner! 🌟
Are you passionate about telecoms? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment? At Babble, we’re on a mission to be our customer’s most trusted advisor for cloud-based technologies. We’re looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our dynamic team. If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
What will you be doing?
The Finance Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to Product Directors, driving financial performance and supporting informed decision-making. This role combines strong analytical capability with commercial insight to influence business outcomes, improve processes, and ensure robust financial planning across assigned Product Pillars. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and able to adapt quickly to shifting priorities.
Accountabilities and Deliverables:
- Deliver clear and insightful reporting for their assigned Product Pillar(s), including KPIs, analysis of variances, trends and performance drivers.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles for assigned Product Pillar(s) and develop financial models to support scenario planning and strategic decisions.
- Track performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including Product Directors and Product Managers.
- Challenge assumptions and influence decision-making through data-driven insight.
- Translate complex financial statements into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Monitor financial and operations KPIs, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Monitor costs within their assigned Product Pillar(s) and assist in identifying opportunities for efficiency and cost savings.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of customers, products and suppliers within their assigned Product Pillar(s), with a broad understanding across other Pillars.
- Prepare high-quality management reporting packs for leadership teams.
- Partner with central finance teams (Management Accounting, Financial Control) to ensure accurate reporting.
- Ensure compliance with financial controls, policies, and governance standards.
Core Competencies:
- Strong technical accounting skills combined with commercial acumen
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), able to translate financial data into meaningful insights for non-finance stakeholders.
- Very high attention to detail, proactive and self-driven, with a continuous improvement mindset
- Adaptable and resilient in a changing environment
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Able to link financial insight to business strategy
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence non-finance colleagues and drive commercial outcomes.
- Confident in presenting financial insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
What else looks good for this role:
- Experience with ERP systems (Acumatica, Workday) and financial reporting tools (PowerBI).
- Sector experience in Digital Communications (Unified Comms and CX Platforms)
Qualifications
- Newly qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- 5+ years experience in a Finance role, with 2+ of these providing commercial experience
- Previous experience in a similar industry (Telecoms or SaaS) or business environment (PE backed, fast-paced).
Additional Information
Why work for Babble?
- Company Pension
- 22 days holiday Balance + UK Bank Holidays - with increased annual leave based on length of service
- Life Assurance – 4x Annual Salary
- Optional Health Insurance – Bupa
- Optional Health Cash Plan – Health Shield
- £1,000 payment after 10 years service
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Commuter Loan
- Charities Trust – Donations to charities pre tax
- Annual Company Celebrations
Hybrid-Working Policy
You will be contracted to work from the office however, Babble operates a non-contractual Hybrid Working Policy whereby you will be required to be in the office on company anchor days (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and will be able to work from home on Wednesday and Friday. Unless your role has different requirements.
The recruitment journey
We want to fill this role quickly, but we want to get the right person. The recruitment process will consist of a screening call. If you proceed past this then you will have an interview and possibly a follow up interview and competency testing depending on the role requirements.
Direct Candidates Only