Finance Business Partner

We're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Kier Places team based in London / South.

Location

London / South - hybrid working available with travel to sites and offices as required

Hours

40 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

We're seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to serve as the single point of financial accountability for our PFI portfolio. This is a strategic role focused on protecting, optimising, and enhancing complex long-term assets. You'll ensure lifecycle funding is deployed intelligently and compliantly, maximising retained surplus and long-term value. Working as a senior commercial and financial authority, you'll influence investment decisions over the long term, operating with gravitas and technical depth alongside internal leadership, auditors, clients, and external advisors.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll be working within the Kier Places team, supporting them in strategic planning, governance, and optimisation of lifecycle expenditure. Your day to day will include:

-Owning the end-to-end financial strategy for PFI lifecycle funds, covering planning, forecasting, deployment, and monthly reconciliation

-Acting as financial steward for circa £400m of lifecycle expenditure, optimising timing of spend and protecting long-term asset condition

-Designing and maintaining financial governance frameworks to ensure full compliance with PFI contractual requirements and audit standards

-Developing complex long-term lifecycle models incorporating asset condition, inflation assumptions, risk analysis, and spend timing optimisation

-Working closely with external technical consultants, asset surveyors, and engineering specialists to translate technical outputs into financially rigorous plans

What are we looking for?

This role of Finance Business Partner is great for you if

-You're a qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA) with 10+ years post-qualification experience and deep audit expertise

-You have advanced Excel and financial modelling capabilities, with the ability to present complex information clearly

-You bring strong commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge at senior level

-You have experience engaging with lenders, shareholders, or audit committees in professional settings

-You're prepared to travel to contract sites across the portfolio to build effective relationships with clients and stakeholders

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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