Ready to drive financial performance at a global, design-led engineering consultancy? Join Buro Happold as a Finance Business Partner.
This person can be based in our Bath or London office on a hybrid working model.
We are looking for a driven and commercially minded Finance Business Partner to join our UK+ Finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting project performance, delivering high-quality financial insight, and partnering with senior stakeholders across the business.
You’ll bring together both statutory and management accounting expertise, helping to shape financial decision-making while ensuring robust reporting and controls.
About The Role
At Buro Happold, a Finance Business Partner plays a pivotal role in connecting finance with project delivery, acting as a trusted advisor to project and operational teams. The role goes beyond traditional reporting, focusing on driving project performance, enhancing commercial outcomes, and providing insightful financial analysis that supports strategic decision-making. By building strong relationships with non-financial stakeholders, the Finance Business Partner helps identify risks and opportunities, challenges assumptions, and ensures that financial considerations are embedded into day-to-day project management and long-term planning.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Finance Business Partner, you will:
- Lead the preparation and control of monthly management and project accounts.
- Deliver annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
- Partner with Project Directors and leadership teams to provide financial insight and challenge performance.
- Conduct regular project finance reviews across your portfolio.
- Monitor and manage debtor positions to mitigate financial risk.
- Provide clear financial analysis and monthly commentary to stakeholders.
- Support commercial decision-making across projects and cost centres.
- Collaborate closely with Project Operations and wider finance teams.
- Take ownership of cost centres, including approvals and performance tracking.
- Manage quarterly WIP and FX reporting.
- Ensure compliance with financial systems, processes, and deadlines.
- Contribute to continuous improvement across finance activities.
About You:
You’re a confident and proactive finance professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys influencing business outcomes.
Key Skills:
- Strong communication skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Advanced Excel and financial systems capability.
- Highly organised with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Resilient, self-motivated, and able to work independently.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
Experience:
- Proven experience in a similar finance business partnering role.
- Ability to provide both technical accounting expertise and commercial insight.
- Experience in professional services or engineering/construction (desirable).
- Familiarity with Agresso or Deltek Vantagepoint (advantageous but not essential).
Qualifications:
- Part-qualified or fully qualified (CIMA / ACCA / ACA).
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.
- 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, 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
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.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. #LI-EM1 #LI-Hybrid