Senior FP&A Business Partner
Role Overview
The Senior FP&A Business Partner advises senior leadership, drives financial performance, and helps shape business strategy.
The role leads complex forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, and actionable analysis to support growth and profitability.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
About Lanes Group
Lanes Group is a nationwide utility services provider with more than 4,500 employees and reported turnover above £500 million.
The Finance team provides financial expertise, governance, reporting, and commercial insight across UK operational and support teams.
Role purpose
The Senior FP&A Business Partner advises senior leadership, drives financial performance, and helps shape business strategy.
The role leads complex forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, and actionable analysis to support growth and profitability.
Hours and employment
- Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
- Employment type is permanent.
Location
- The role is listed in Leeds, LS12.
Key responsibilities
- Own FP&A cycles and long-term planning for multiple business units or regions; contribute to investment, M&A, and capital allocation decisions.
- Partner with senior executives and explain complex financial data as actionable insights.
- Deliver management reporting, trend and risk analysis, and scenario modelling; identify margin, cost, and revenue opportunities.
- Mentor junior colleagues and improve FP&A processes, systems, and tools.
- Lead financial workstreams for transformation and strategic investment projects, partnering across functions.
Candidate requirements
- Significant FP&A or commercial finance experience, typically 7–10+ years, and ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
- Executive partnering experience and background in investment appraisal, capital allocation, and scenario modelling.
- Advanced financial modelling, analytical capability, commercial acumen, and understanding of performance drivers.
- Strong communication, leadership, coaching, and continuous-improvement skills.
- Project management ability and experience bringing structure to ambiguous situations.
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent experience.
Company values and contribution
The role is expected to model leading, agile, nurturing, engaging, and safe and secure behaviors.
Employees are expected to follow company policies, communicate constructively, meet commitments, and raise ideas that may improve productivity or systems.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Lanes Group PLC
Product Analyst
Eccles, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking a Product Analyst to help operational teams and Product Owners understand business challenges and deliver technology improvements. The work includes process and requirements analysis, stakeholder d
FP&A Analyst
Leeds, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking an FP&A Analyst to support financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and commercial decision-making. Candidates need a relevant bachelor's degree, at least two years of relevant experience, stron
Traffic Management Operative
Kidlington, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking a Traffic Management Operative to support planned and reactive road traffic management schemes. The role involves setting up and overseeing traffic controls, completing safety checks and risk asses
Traffic Management Operative
Theale, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking a Traffic Management Operative to support planned and reactive traffic management schemes while maintaining safe, efficient worksites. Candidates need the specified Lantra and TTMBC accreditations,
Operations Manager
, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking an Operations Manager to lead wastewater maintenance, reactive response, and resilience delivery across Yorkshire Water frameworks. The role requires operational leadership experience, budget overs
DSAR Analyst
, GBR
Lanes Group seeks a DSAR Analyst to coordinate data subject rights requests and support its wider data protection and privacy programme. The role covers request handling, privacy assessments, incident investigations, com
Cyber Governance Analyst
Leeds, GBR
Lanes Group is seeking a Cyber Governance Analyst to support security governance, risk, and compliance and help maintain compliance with ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and GDPR. The role includes audit coordination, risk t
Senior Quantity Surveyor (Wastewater / Capital Projects)
Leyland, GBR
Sapphire Utility Solutions seeks a Senior Quantity Surveyor to support commercial and contract management for wastewater capital projects. The role covers cost control, NEC contract administration, change management, rep
Product Analyst
Eccles, GBR
FP&A Analyst
Leeds, GBR
Traffic Management Operative
Kidlington, GBR
Traffic Management Operative
Theale, GBR
Operations Manager
, GBR
DSAR Analyst
, GBR
Cyber Governance Analyst
Leeds, GBR
Senior Quantity Surveyor (Wastewater / Capital Projects)
Leyland, GBR