Finance Business Partner

Alzheimers Society

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity, and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by providing help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be. Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. Our values ensure that our focus remains clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead, reminding us of what we all stand for.

About the role

At Alzheimer’s Society, we are advisors, supporters, fundraisers, researchers, influencers, communicators, technical specialists, and so much more. We are volunteers, we are employees, and together we are here to make a difference to the lives of people with dementia and their carers. In Finance & Assurance, our vision is to be the Society’s single point of truth. We are trusted partners, credible experts, working as one team to be a true enabler to the organisation as it makes an impact to end the devastation of dementia.

Partnership, collaboration, accountability, professionalism, and a restless desire to constantly improve are needed in every role across Finance & Assurance. Our Finance Business Partners act as operational financial advisors, partnering with our budget holders across the Society to provide insights and recommendations that drive financial performance and confident decisions that support the day-to-day running of the charity. They help build sound financial knowledge and skills with budget holders and act as critical friends.

Positioned as a bridge between Finance and the rest of the Society, this role requires strong influencing and engagement with budget holders to build financial best practice, literacy, and confidence. Finance Business Partners listen to and translate the plans of budget holders, bringing in understanding and analysis from the Finance team to ensure a single point of truth, proactively anticipating and responding to the plans of budget holders. We are looking for someone who exemplifies our values, someone who is: Determined to make a difference when and where it matters most. A trusted expert who believes in working better together and demonstrates true Compassion.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Work with budget holders to provide budgeting, forecasting, modelling, analysis and reporting in line with our policy to provide consistent, high-quality partnership-based advice and reports.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Finance to support streamlined, joined-up working to improve efficiency or process and clear understanding amongst teams around where accountability sits for a range of financial processes and responsibilities, including administration (raising of POs and completion of GRNs, for example).
• Provide coaching and empowerment to budget holders, supporting them to navigate the
• Society’s finances in a way which underpins faster, clearer and more confident decisions in line with budget holders’ accountabilities, whilst maintaining a consistent approach across the Society, helping to eliminate unwarranted variation in our business partnering.
• Use storytelling, influencing and creative approaches to presentation and engagement alongside data-driven analysis to communicate key finance products, messages and expectations.
• Support the development of the Society’s financial literacy and confidence through identifying needs gaps and helping to develop learning programmes in response.
• Build strong relationships with budget holders to understand their objectives and anticipate opportunities and challenges, intervening proactively to address them.
• Ensure integrated relationships with others across the Finance team, particularly other
• Business Partners and colleagues in Financial Accounting, developing strong feedback and status loops to ensure a single point of truth is communicated.
• Identify cost saving or optimisation opportunities, working closely with Procurement & Sustainability in particular to realise these.
• Work with colleagues in Financial Planning and Financial Analysis teams to help design and deliver intuitive reports and other products which meet the needs of budget holders.
• Support knowledge and best practice-sharing across the Business Partnering team, supporting shared ownership of the business partnering workload, proactively providing suggestions for flexing our resource in response to anticipated needs across the year.
• Support Senior Business Partners in identifying key performance metrics and indicators to underpin constant quality and performance improvement across the team. This includes the routine collection of feedback from partners across the Society.(Where applicable) Through effective management of our assistants in the team, we role-model a high challenge, high support culture with accountability and performance as critical drivers to success, ensuring individual and team development is front and centre of our approach to business partnering.
• Support Senior Business Partners where appropriate to manage the resource and capacity of the team by identifying and anticipating any need to flex our capacity in response to your understanding of budget holders’ plans and business needs. 

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Skills & Knowledge:

• Support with accountancy training will be available to the successful candidate.
• Effective communication and influencing skills (including storytelling), able to engage effectively at the budget holder level across multiple directorates.
• Capable of working across departmental and hierarchical boundaries to resolve challenges, and building strong, trusted relationships at multiple levels in often complex specialist areas.
• Experience of working with finance systems and processes, particularly in the context of change, and specific knowledge of working with ERP finance systems, including Unit4.
• A track record or strong enthusiasm around developing high-performing junior colleagues and a passion for supporting learning, career development and performance management.
• Knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and tools.
• Experience in identifying and collecting feedback and other data to inform quality improvement and monitoring the performance of processes or tools.
• Experience of improving financial literacy and confidence across teams or organisations.

Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• Takes initiative and is comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively
• A critical thinker, able to identify and act on ways to work more effectively and efficiently
• Celebrates progress, solutions and impact rather than activity
• Delivers effectively to timelines in complex and sometimes ambiguous environments
• Deeply committed to the development of yourself and others
• Resilient and adaptable, with a strong work ethic and the ability to navigate changing situations and diverse teams.
• Welcoming and respectful of diverse perspectives, experiences, and opinions
• A team player who sees opportunity and energy in working together to solve problems

Required Qualifications

• CCAB qualified or part-qualified accountants (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent) or those with equivalent demonstrable knowledge. 

Compensation & Benefits

• Paid dependants leave
• Paid compassionate and bereavement leave
• Paid time off work to support
• Annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 30, plus bank holidays
• Career breaks of up to 3 months
• Flexible working
• Wellbeing leave
• Values Hero and Society Legend Awards
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Scottish Widows - with up to 8% employer contribution rate
• Life Assurance Scheme - two times your annual salary
• Health Cash Plan
• Home Allowance of £312 per year
• Discounted gym membership with Society Plus
• Mental health app and unlimited therapy
• Women in Leadership Development Programme
• Leadership development programme
• Financial support towards relevant professional qualifications, enhanced family leave - 16 weeks paid for all parents
• Paid time off work for fertility treatments for both partners, paid carers' leave

Working locations

• Home-based

How to apply

• Apply to our website
• Please also contact Alzheimer’s Society Talent Acquisition Team via [email protected] for application support or any adjustments you might need.

Interviews

• Interview invites issued Friday, 17th April 2026
• Interviews taking place across W/C 20th April 2026

Policies

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment, or health condition, or individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.  

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society. Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy here, along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups, helps us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

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