If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.
Finance Business Partner Specialist
Closing date: 15th April 2026
Location: Located between Reading and Aldermaston, with free onsite parking.
Package: £46,220 – £51,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis.
Ready to play your part?
At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?
As a key member of our Finance Business Partnering team, the Finance Business Partner Specialist plays a vital role in delivering high‑quality financial insight and expertise. You’ll provide trusted, expert advice to the Senior Finance Business Partner and the wider Service Delivery Unit, helping to shape informed decision‑making and drive strong financial performance across AWE.
Key Accountabilities
- Apply all appropriate procedures, processes and systems to ensure the quality and consistency of data supported by your team.
- Prepare, monitor and control of forecasts and budgets for specified areas, including change control.
- Carry out variance analysis and cost monitoring against a range of financial measures and expense categories and provide input to narrative for impact and recovery statements.
- Support system interrogation and financial performance measurement of actual expenditure.
- Prepare cost reports, including trend analysis and early warnings as necessary.
- Lead the best practice financial analysis within your area service delivery unit or area, making recommendations to the business partners, business partner managers and the accountable leads to provide a more efficient and effective service.
- Support the technical development of the business partners in your service delivery unit or area.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.
- Support the task management of the business partnering team.
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships with accountable leads, customer budget holders and wider stakeholders, steering and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities.
- Developing confidence and trust in the ability of finance to support business needs.
- Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.
- Communicating with impact and providing insight including financial and wider business implications.
- Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight, and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.
- Support, contribute and review business cases.
- Engaging with the business and drawing on the required support from the finance function or other functions related to finance.
- Continuously improve quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritising changes that will add the most value.
- Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across their business areas.
- Setting the direction, empowering, inspiring, motivating, and coaching team members to enable effective delivery of objectives and supporting individual’s personal development and careers.
- The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
- Support the technical development of the business partners in your service delivery unit or area.
Who are we looking for?
- Good standard of general education, including business / finance qualification or equivalent or proven level of experience.
- Stakeholder management skills with ability to collaborate at all levels.
- Analytical.
- Highly skilled in Microsoft Excel, with strong working knowledge of the wider Microsoft Office suite.
Work Hard, Be Rewarded
- 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave – 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
Next Steps
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important Things You Need To Know
- We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
- Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
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