Finance Manager, Business Partnership
Quick Summary
Serve as the primary finance partner for practice groups and growth teams, delivering performance insights, forecast updates, business cases, and financial decision support.
The ideal candidate combines strong financial expertise with the ability to influence business decisions through data-driven insights.
The Finance Manager, Business Partnership will play a key role in connecting financial performance with strategic business decisions. This position partners with practice groups, growth teams, and functional leaders to improve profitability, pricing, forecasting, and operational performance. You will transform financial data into actionable insights, helping leaders understand performance drivers and identify opportunities for growth. The role also involves developing standardized KPIs, strengthening reporting processes, and improving financial visibility across the organization. Working closely with FP&A, Accounting, and Data teams, you will contribute to better planning, resource allocation, and business accountability. This is an opportunity to combine financial expertise, analytical thinking, and business partnership skills to drive measurable impact.
As Finance Manager, Business Partnership, you will provide strategic financial guidance and translate complex performance data into practical recommendations. Your main responsibilities will include:
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Serve as the primary finance partner for practice groups and growth teams, delivering performance insights, forecast updates, business cases, and financial decision support.
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Lead the development and standardization of practice metrics, including definitions, ownership, reporting cadence, templates, and alignment with enterprise KPIs.
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Collaborate with Data teams on metric definitions, dashboard development, governance, and consistency across reporting and planning processes.
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Analyze profitability, revenue growth, realization, utilization, billable hours, pricing, discounts, write-offs, accounts receivable, work in progress, hiring plans, compensation, capacity, and margin drivers.
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Conduct pricing and discount analyses, evaluating rate impacts, margin sensitivity, realization trends, client profitability, and commercial scenarios.
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Lead monthly financial performance reviews, translating results into clear operational actions, risks, opportunities, and follow-up priorities.
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Support annual planning, quarterly forecasting, staffing models, investment requests, productivity improvements, and expense management.
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Lead special projects such as profitability reviews, business case development, integration support, reporting improvements, and performance optimization initiatives.
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Develop KPI dashboards, business review materials, financial narratives, and actionable recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.
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Partner with FP&A and Accounting teams to ensure analyses align with actual results, approved forecasts, standard definitions, and consistent reporting methodologies.
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Identify emerging trends, challenge assumptions, and help leaders improve cash conversion, profitability, resource allocation, and accountability.
Requirements
~1 min readThe ideal candidate combines strong financial expertise with the ability to influence business decisions through data-driven insights. You should bring the following qualifications and capabilities:
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Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
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At least 6 years of experience in finance, FP&A, business partnership, pricing, commercial finance, or professional services analytics.
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Demonstrated experience in forecast management, KPI reporting, profitability analysis, pricing and discount analysis, business case development, and cross-functional decision support.
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Experience using automation, dashboarding, data tools, or AI-enabled solutions to improve reporting, business reviews, and financial decision-making.
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Strong financial analysis, business partnering, problem-solving, and strategic communication skills.
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Ability to translate complex financial information into clear, compelling narratives and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
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Experience defining and standardizing performance metrics, collaborating with data teams, and developing effective dashboards and reporting materials.
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Ability to leverage automation and AI tools to enhance metric reporting, pricing analysis, dashboard development, and recurring business reviews.
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Strong judgment and analytical thinking, with the ability to challenge assumptions and develop pricing, investment, and profitability cases.
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Proven ability to manage special projects, collaborate across functions, and influence business leaders through fact-based recommendations.
What We Offer
~2 min readLocation & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $107,000–$144,000 a year
- 23% below the $162,500 median for Finance Manager jobs on Jobera (376 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- Today
Listing Details
- Posted
- November 11, 2026
- First seen
- November 11, 2026
- Last seen
- November 11, 2026
Posting Health
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- 0
- Trust Level
- 80%
- Scored at
- November 11, 2026
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