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Contract:  Fixed term contract, full time (14 months, maternity cover) Salary:  £42,000 - £52,000 per annum Location:  Burford, Oxfordshire (hybrid working, minimum two days per week in the office) Closing date:  Monday 6 July 2026 Interview date:  13-17 July 2026 Do you enjoy working with stakeholders, turning financial data into meaningful insight and helping teams make informed decisions? If so, this could be the role for you.

We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team, where you’ll play a key role in supporting colleagues across Blue Cross to understand and improve financial performance. This is an important position within the organisation, helping ensure we deliver our work in a financially sustainable and effective way.

More about the role

You will work closely with directorates across Blue Cross, providing financial insight, reporting and challenge to support decision making and delivery of plans. You will lead on budgeting, forecasting and management reporting for your areas, ensuring strong financial control and identifying opportunities to improve performance. This role is based at our Burford site, with hybrid working in place and a minimum of two days per week in the office. We are ideally looking for someone who can start by 3 August or as close to this as possible. What you will be doing

• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the organisation
• Providing financial insight and analysis to support decision making
• Leading on budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities
• Producing accurate and timely monthly management reports and variance analysis
• Challenging and supporting teams to improve financial performance
• Supporting the development of business plans and financial models
• Ensuring compliance with financial policies, controls and regulations
• Coaching budget holders to build financial understanding and capability
• Contributing to continuous improvement of financial processes and reporting

About you

You will be a qualified accountant with experience in a business partnering or similar role. You will be confident working with stakeholders at all levels and able to explain financial information clearly and effectively.

With a proactive and solutions focused approach, you will be comfortable providing constructive challenge while maintaining strong working relationships. You will be organised, able to manage competing priorities and motivated to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines. Essential qualifications, skills, and experience

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Experience in a finance business partnering or similar role
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems
• Experience of budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial information to non-finance audiences
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
• The ability to demonstrate, understanding and apply our Blue Cross values

Desirable qualifications, skills, and experience

• Experience working in a charity or not for profit organisation
• Knowledge of SORP accounting
• Experience of financial systems such as Access Dimensions
• Experience supporting business planning or investment appraisal

How to apply To apply for this role, please submit your application through our careers site and answer the application questions, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.

Blue Cross benefits

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.   In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.   Our generous benefits package includes: 

• Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)  
• Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support  
• Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family   
• Health cash plan  
• Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme  
• Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution   
• Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.  
• Life assurance   
• 20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance   
• Enhanced family friendly policies   
• Recognition scheme   
• Annual volunteer days  
• Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers 

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.