Halfords

Finance Business Partner  

About us 

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment. 

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly. 

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far. 

About the role  

We’re looking for a forward-thinking Finance Business Partner to join our collaborative and commercially focused finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a key role that combines core finance responsibilities with meaningful business impact. 

Reporting to a Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll take ownership of month-end processes, analyse and interpret management information, and deliver insightful decision support to help drive performance across the business. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, using financial insight to influence strategic and operational decisions. 

Whether it’s spotting trends, challenging assumptions, or helping teams understand the story behind the numbers, your work will play a vital role in shaping smarter, more informed business choices. 

If you're looking to build strong partnerships, sharpen your commercial acumen, and make your mark in a high-impact finance role, we’d love to hear from you. 

Key responsibilities 

• Act as a trusted finance partner to operational and commercial teams across the business, delivering both management accounting and business partnering support. 

• Take ownership of weekly and monthly reporting processes, including the preparation of month-end results and clear articulation of variances against expectations. 

• Support the delivery of annual budgets and periodic reforecasts, working closely with senior finance and business stakeholders to identify risks, opportunities, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives. 

• Provide financial oversight and accountability for relevant cost areas, contributing to the development of robust measurement frameworks to assess performance and drive improved outcomes. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the financial implications of commercial decisions, and communicate their impact on year-end performance through regular updates and insight-led commentary. 

• Evaluate the performance of business initiatives and trials using robust financial and non-financial analysis, delivering clear conclusions and actionable recommendations. 

• Support post-initiative or post-campaign performance reviews to inform future investment and resource allocation decisions. 

• Manage and develop junior team members, ensuring effective prioritisation of their workload, setting aligned objectives, and supporting professional growth and development. 

• Contribute positively to the wider finance function, promoting best practices, knowledge sharing, and actively supporting the delivery of finance transformation initiatives. 

About you  

• Professionally qualified (CIMA, CA, ACCA or equivalent) with a solid background in management accounting and month-end delivery. 

• Commercially focused with experience in a finance business partnering role, bringing insight and challenge to support decision-making. 

• Strong commercial acumen and a results-driven mindset – able to prioritise activity that delivers tangible business value. 

• A confident communicator who can simplify complex financial information and influence both finance and non-finance stakeholders. 

• Collaborative and relationship-oriented, with a proven ability to work effectively across functions and within matrix environments. 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced setting, demonstrating adaptability, ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset. 

Reward & benefits  

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave. 

• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations. 

• We offer hybrid working in our Support Centre, you will be based at our Support Centre 3 days a week with an optional 2 days working from home.  

• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.  

• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords. 

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family. 

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days per week on-site at our Support Centre in Redditch Worcestershire.