Are You the Strategic Partner Who Can Drive Financial Excellence?
This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model.
At Buro Happold, we’re passionate about improving the world around us. Our Finance team plays a critical role in enabling our engineers, designers and consultants to deliver solutions that shape a sustainable, equitable future. We are now looking for an Associate Finance Business Partner to join our UK+ Finance team and help drive high‑quality financial insight, performance and governance across the business.
About The Role
As an Associate Finance Business Partner, you will be a key member of our established Finance team - blending both statutory and management accounting expertise to deliver meaningful insights and business support. You will own end‑to‑end management accounts for your portfolio, partner closely with project and operational leaders, and guide financial decision‑making that supports our strategic objectives.
This is an opportunity to take true ownership, influence performance, and contribute to the success of a mission‑driven global organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparing and controlling monthly management and project accounts, supporting consolidation at unit level.
- Leading annual budget and quarterly forecasting cycles.
- Delivering regular project finance reviews, acting as a trusted partner to provide analysis, challenge and guidance.
- Reviewing debtors and managing financial risks across your portfolio.
- Identifying and escalating key project and operational risks and opportunities.
- Working in collaboration with the Project Operations Team and wider finance colleagues across the region and group.
- Providing clear, insightful financial analysis and commentary to senior leadership.
- Managing multiple cost centres, including approvals and performance review.
- Supporting WIP and FX reporting on a quarterly basis.
- Acting as the point of contact for financial queries within your remit.
- Delivering ad hoc reporting, presentations and business-critical analysis.
- Ensuring adherence to financial processes, systems and deadlines.
- Proactively seeking opportunities to improve how we work.
What We Are Looking For:
- Strong communication skills, high attention to detail and the ability to build relationships with non‑financial stakeholders.
- Highly organised, able to prioritise in a fast‑paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
- Confident and proactive, comfortable taking the lead and using your initiative.
- Strong Microsoft Excel capability and the ability to manage and maintain financial systems.
- Experience operating at an equivalent level, providing technical financial information and partnering with stakeholders to support both strategic and tactical decision-making.
- Experience working within professional services, engineering or construction sectors is advantageous.
- Experience with Agresso or Deltek Vantagepoint is helpful but not essential.
- CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified or finalist level.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- 10% car allowance
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, private medical, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone.
Technology is the beating heart of our work and intrinsic to our culture. We innovate. We think smart. We use digital solutions to constantly push forward. Employees choose to join Buro Happold because technology enables them to ‘be their best self’, multiplied but never replaced. This is how we are spearheading the digital transformation of the built environment. We are therefore looking for candidates with a digital mindset who embrace new technologies with ease and enthusiasm.
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. #LI-EM1 #LI-Hybrid