Finance Business Partner

Description Of The Position

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We are seeking a Finance Business Partner to join our Financial Business Partnering team—a strategic role that bridges financial data with business insight.

In this position, you will be a trusted partner to our (Managing) Partners, Responsible Directors and Managers (PDM), translating financial data into actionable insights that drive profitability, optimize resource allocation, and accelerate business growth. You will own the financial narrative of your Offering Portfolio, ensuring clarity on P&L performance while identifying cross-service opportunities and risks that shape strategic decisions.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will provide strategic analytical and advisory support across the Tax & Legal practice. Your primary focus will be delivering comprehensive financial insights and analyses for your assigned Offering Portfolio, while extending support across the entire PDM-group within that Portfolio. You will partner closely with your respective PDM-group to drive P&L accountability ensuring informed decision-making at every level of the business.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Operations & Reporting

• Own the monthly financial close process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal controls and procedures.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive P&L reports, variance analyses, and financial dashboards to support business decision-making
• Lead planning, budget and reforecasting exercises, coordinating inputs across business units and consolidating financial plans
• Monitor cash and working capital and initiate appropriate actions to optimize liquidity and financial health
• Generate ad-hoc reports to management that are timely, accurate, and tailored to specific business needs
• Perform periodic reviews of work in progress (WIP), ensure accurate, transparent, and up‑to‑date WIP positions, and proactively address variances.

Financial Analysis & Business Advisory

• Analyse portfolio performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to optimize profitability and resource allocation
• Provide insights into direct cost evolution, supporting the business in understanding cost drivers and improving margins.
• Translate complex financial data into actionable business insights, providing strategic recommendations to operational leaders
• Partner with business stakeholders to evaluate operational initiatives, quantifying financial impact and return on investment
• Continuously improve service level and enhance the added value of analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders

Financial Governance & Process Excellence

• Design and implement financial policies, procedures, and controls that strengthen governance and operational efficiency
• Act as a trusted advisor on financial matters, fostering a culture of financial discipline and accountability across the business
• Maintain quality, integrity, and consistency in all financial activities and deliverables

Digital Transformation & Change Management

• Support and drive digital initiatives by contributing to the design, development, testing, and continuous improvement of solutions impacting financials and reporting thereof.
• Ensure effective rollout and user adoption of new financial solutions through training and stakeholder engagement
• Contribute to the enhancement of global delivery and reporting structures, enabling improved transparency and performance insights across delivery models

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Required Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum 5+ years of financial controlling, financial analysis, or financial business partnering experience.
• Education: Master’s degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, or equivalent professional qualification
• Technical Competency: Expert-level Excel skills (data modelling, pivot tables, advanced formulas); Proficiency in financial analysis tools and systems is a plus
• Language: Fluent in English; and Dutch or French

Success Factors

• Analytical Mindset: You combine strong quantitative skills with business intelligence, able to move fluidly between detailed data analysis and strategic insight
• Strategic Partnership: You are comfortable operating as a trusted advisor to senior leaders; you ask insightful questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and influence through insight rather than authority
• Communication Excellence: You communicate complex financial concepts clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences; your written and verbal communication is precise, compel