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We are now looking for a proactive and collaborative Finance Business Partner to join our Commercial Finance team and play a key role in shaping financial decision making across the business.
This is a 12 month fixed term contract, we are looking for someone to join us from June 2026.
Role Summary
This is a highly visible and influential role, partnering closely with senior leaders, department heads, and project teams. You’ll bring financial expertise, strong analytical capability and excellent communication skills to support budgeting, forecasting, modelling and strategic planning.
Within finance you will bring mentorship – driving continuous improvement, including automation, process optimisation, and improved BI/reporting capabilities within the finance function.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading the budgeting and forecasting process for your designated business areas, ensuring alignment with long term strategic plans.
- Engaging with business stakeholders on monthly performance, to deliver clear, insightful variance analysis, and capture financial risks and opportunities.
- Collaborating on finance transformation initiatives to improve automation and enhance BI reporting tools.
- Developing robust financial models and KPI reporting to track business performance and inform decision making.
- Providing ad-hoc analysis and financial modelling to support business cases, investments and strategic projects.
- Partnering with other departments to ensure financial strategies remain aligned with business objectives.
- Supporting preparation of the annual long term business plan alongside the Senior Finance Business Partner.
About You
You’ll be a motivated and commercially minded qualified accountant, able to build strong relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate complex financial insights in an accessible way.
What you’ll bring
Qualifications
- ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent, with relevant post qualified experience.
Experience & Knowledge
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis.
- Strong month end experience, including variance investigation and commentary.
- Proven ability to develop financial models and KPI reporting.
- Understanding of finance systems and BI tools (EPICOR and Power BI desirable).
- Experience supporting nonfinance stakeholders to build financial acumen.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience contextualising financial performance within market/external factors.
- STEM publishing knowledge desirable, or willingness to learn.
Skills & Behaviours
- Excellent communicator, able to work effectively with nonfinance colleagues.
- Strong problem solver with sound commercial judgement.
- Skilled at stakeholder management, influencing and coaching.
- Advanced Excel and data visualisation capability.
- Ability to manage detailed work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Collaborative team player with a continuous improvement mindset
We pride ourselves on being a flexible and inclusive employer, if you have a preference to work flexibly, please do apply.
Who We Are
IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good.
Why work with us at IOP Publishing
Purpose
We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community – working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish;
Culture
We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
Financial Benefits
a competitive salary from £50,000 (Band C), an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), a discretionary annual bonus scheme and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform.
Health and Wellbeing
33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day’s leave to use for a moment that matters to you, a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol – modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.
Flexibility
a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs- we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol on likely twice per month depending on when face to face time is needed.
And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique? IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.
To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site.
IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.
We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If, however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.
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