Assistant / Manager, Finance (Business Partner) (Ref 26600)

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic Finance Business Partner to the Cyber leadership team, providing robust financial insight, commercial challenge, and independent judgment to support growth, profitability, investment decisions, and business sustainability.

• Lead end-to-end FP&A activities across forecasts, budgets, long-range plans, and performance reviews, with a clear expectation to move beyond reporting and identify actionable interventions that improve business outcomes.

• Provide rigorous analysis of financial and operational performance, uncover underlying business drivers, and proactively highlight risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to support timely and informed decision-making.

• Partner business leaders on strategic initiatives, bids, investments, pricing decisions, cost optimisation, and resource allocation, ensuring strong financial discipline and value-focused decision support.

• Develop a strong command of the Cyber business model, including market dynamics, portfolio economics, delivery considerations, revenue quality, and cost structure, in order to provide commercially relevant and credible business advice.

• Challenge assumptions, narratives, and proposals with confidence and professionalism, and influence stakeholders through clear reasoning, financial evidence, and sound business judgement.

• Drive executive-level reporting and presentations that distil complexity into clear financial narratives, strategic implications, and management actions for senior leadership review.

• Raise the standard of financial planning, reporting, and performance management processes through continuous improvement, stronger analytical frameworks, and effective use of digital and AI-enabled tools.

• Maintain strong governance, controls, and execution discipline while balancing the need to enable the business with speed, agility, and commercial responsiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline. Professional qualifications such as ACCA, CPA, CA, or equivalent are strongly preferred.

• Significant and proven experience in FP&A and business partnering, with a strong track record of influencing decisions, improving performance, and delivering measurable business value beyond routine planning and reporting activities.

• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at senior stakeholder level, including the confidence and maturity to challenge constructively, influence outcomes, and engage business leaders on strategic and commercial issues.

• Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to connect financial performance to operational execution, market realities, strategic priorities, and value creation opportunities.

• Experience in cybersecurity, technology, engineering, or other complex project- and solution-based businesses is highly preferred. 

• Excellent analytical capability and financial modelling strength, with the ability to synthesise large and complex data sets into concise, decision-useful insights for management.

• Strong communication, presentation, and executive storytelling skills, with the ability to tailor messages effectively for both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• High standards of ownership, accountability, and intellectual rigor, with a proactive mindset and the resilience to operate in a demanding, fast-paced, and evolving environment.

• Demonstrated drive for excellence and continuous improvement, including the ability to leverage digital tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to strengthen finance support to the business.

Licence no: 12C6060