About The Role
Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner Analyst to join our team in Bristol on a full‑time, permanent basis. This role sits within the Strategy & Planning team and plays a key role in delivering high‑quality financial insight, modelling, commercial decision support and financial management support and services across the assigned business division.
You will operate as a trusted finance partner to stakeholders, translating operational activity and commercial agreements into clear financial outcomes. You will inform and influence stakeholders by providing financial interpretation, forward‑looking insight, challenging assumptions and supporting decision‑making to drive performance and value.
You will take ownership of key elements of financial reporting, planning and analysis, ensuring alignment between financial outputs and underlying business drivers. You will act as a deputy to the Commercial Accountant where required, stepping into broader responsibilities across reporting, analysis and stakeholder engagement.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as a finance partner and single point of contact for divisional stakeholders, providing insight, challenge and decision support
- Provide commercial insight and challenge to optimise financial and operational performance
- Own delivery of monthly financial reporting, including performance analysis, variance explanation and insight‑led commentary
- Lead components of budgeting, forecasting and planning, ensuring alignment with operational drivers
- Develop and maintain robust financial models for commercial agreements and business cases
- Translate operational activity into financial performance insight, developing forward‑looking outlooks including risks, opportunities and scenario analysis
- Support and influence key business decisions through financial insight and analysis
- Drive understanding of cost drivers and support effective cost control and optimisation
- Maintain oversight of management accounting and ensure integrity of financial information (incl. accruals, prepayments, reconciliations)
- Build and enhance dashboards and reporting using BI tools
- Continuously improve reporting, processes and data quality
- Provide ad‑hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives
- Deputise for the Commercial Accountant as required
About You
- You are an experienced, commercially minded finance professional with strong analytical and modelling capability.
- You are comfortable operating with autonomy and ambiguity, and confident engaging with stakeholders to influence decisions.
- You are able to connect operational drivers, commercial agreements and financial outcomes, and communicate insights clearly.
- You take a structured, detail‑oriented approach and ensure outputs are robust, controlled and reliable.
- You are intellectually curious and proactive, able to challenge assumptions and identify opportunities.
- You are motivated to continuously improve processes and reporting and develop your technical and commercial skillset.
- You are confident operating with senior stakeholders and can influence outcomes through insight and challenge.
- You deliver high‑quality outputs at pace, balancing competing priorities effectively.
Minimum criteria
- Qualified accountant
- Proven track record in commercial finance, FP&A, business partnering
- Strong analytical and modelling capability
- Substantial experience with Finance apps, advanced Excel skills
- Strong understanding of financial controls and reporting
- Experience influencing stakeholders
Benefits
- Pay: competitive salary, with a yearly discretionary bonus, based on your performance
- Holiday: 28 days, and you can buy and sell days
- Pension: 15% non‑contributory pension (9% during probation)
- Health and wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance cover available for all employees and free health screenings for over 50s. Life assurance at four times your basic salary, to give you peace of mind. Free access to healthcare apps like Peppy, Unmind, and Aviva Digital GP. Mental Health Allies and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Development: A library of internal training on our myLearn platform
- Family friendly: We have competitive family leave policies
- Diversity and inclusion: We embrace the diversity of our people and empower them to come to work as their true selves, and we ensure they are rewarded equally.
- Helping our community: One volunteering day each year, and access to volunteering platform Neighbourly
- Schemes: Car Benefit Scheme for electric and hybrid cars. This means you can lease a brand‑new electric or plug‑in hybrid car, for a fixed monthly amount. Cycle to Work Scheme. Employee Discount Scheme, to save money across lots of retailers
- Other, voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans, free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
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