Finance Business Partner (Commercial / FP&A)

Location

Based 3 days on-site at Sunswap’s Leatherhead HQ (KT22 7BA, UK)

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays! (includes a Wellbeing Day)
• Sabbatical (after 3 years of working with Sunswap)
• 5 free counselling sessions per year
• Family leave ranging from 4 weeks to 4 months
• Free Monthly Lunches & Quarterly Socials!
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Sunswap merch

Job Overview

We are looking for a commercially driven finance professional who turns complex data into clear, strategic insight. This is a high-impact role at the centre of decision-making, combining strong financial modelling with a forward-looking approach to automation and AI. You will partner across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to shape forecasts, challenge assumptions, and drive better business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the use of AI, automation, and BI tools within your role to improve financial modelling, forecasting accuracy, and reporting efficiency.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual processes and enhance insight generation.
• Continuously improve financial processes, tools, and methodologies to scale with the business.

Cross-Functional Partnering

• Partner with Commercial, Supply Chain and Finance teams to align assumptions across revenue, pricing, pipeline, and cost inputs.
• Challenge and refine non-finance assumptions to ensure robust, commercially sound decision-making.
• Support pricing strategy and margin optimisation through close collaboration with commercial teams.
• Build and maintain robust, driver‑based financial models to support strategic decision‑making.
• Lead cash flow and working capital forecasting, incorporating operational drivers (e.g. customer and supplier terms, inventory, lead times, liquidity).
• Perform scenario, sensitivity, and variance analysis to inform planning and performance.
• Translate financial analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3–5+ years in FP&A, commercial finance, or similar (experience in venture capital or VC‑backed businesses advantageous).
• Advanced Excel and strong financial modelling capability.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and financial systems (e.g. Dynamics).
• Experience using automation and/or AI to improve workflows or analysis.
• Strong analytical, commercial, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex financial insights to non-finance stakeholders.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Maths or similar.

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